Iraq

A photograph released by the Islamic State group of a British suicide bomber in Mosul shows British ex-Guantanamo detainee Jamal Al-Harith.

Iraqi troops backed by the United States have siezed control of Mosul university from so-called Islamic State militants.

The three-month battle to recapture the city of Mosul, the last major stronghold of Islamic State militants in Iraq, is gathering pace.

Two explosions have killed at least 28 in a busy market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.  The so-called Islamic state say their combatants targeted shoppers in the Shia district with a car bomb followed by a suicide bomber.

In Iraq, up to 100 people have been killed in a suicide truck bomb attack on a petrol station near the city of Hilla. It’s believed that most of the victims were Shia pilgrims – many from Iran.

Isis has been accused of committing war crimes as it tries to resist the assault on Mosul which started a month ago. The Chief Executive of Oxfam, Mark Goldring, has just come back from visiting camps housing those who have managed to flee the city and its surrounding villages.

Tony Blair told US President George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever” eight months before parliament approved the invasion of Iraq, the Chilcot inquiry has found.

The Prime Minister says he wants to stamp out an “industry trying to profit” from baseless claims against serving military personnel and veterans.

Behind the endless stream of propaganda, who is really pulling the strings of the so-called Islamic State? We examine the roots of Isis, who really holds the power, and the reality of the self-declared caliphate that they don’t want the world to see.

The UK security services are examining an Islamic State murder video featuring a man and a young boy with British accents.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says government forces are planning to liberate Mosul, the group’s last stronghold in Iraq, after taking control of Ramadi from the insurgents.

Iraq’s armed forces say they have fought their way to the centre of Ramadi, where Islamic State militants are holed up.

In 1998 Tony Benn spoke passionately against bombing Iraq. In 2015, his son Hilary’s rousing speech to MPs backed bombing raids over Syria. On both occasions Jeremy Corbyn was sitting near by.