Nadia Fall’s film is inspired by London schoolgirl Shamima Begum, who left home to join Islamic State

King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson & Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria

A project has also been set up to help steer 12- to 24-year-olds away from involvement in crime in Dublin’s north inner city

Sunday night attck was first major IS operation and suicide bombing in Syria since toppling of former president Bashar al-Assad in December

Popular mobilisation in Iran for more than 100 years has been driven by domestic actors in pursuit of domestic agendas - never by external forces

There have been more than 900 mine-related injuries or fatalities in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime

The novelist has turned American Mother, his book about the executed journalist James Foley, into an opera with the composer Charlotte Bray

Sanctions to be lifted as Washington urges Damascus to cut ties with Palestinian militants and to protect minorities

Solicitor for former soldier, who is appealing conviction, says there is no evidence Smith recruited or fundraised for terrorist organisation

The US is conducting its largest bombardment since the war on Isis – without a clear endgame

The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader

War, corruption and sanctions have taken a heavy toll on Syria, whose deepening poverty is ‘a dangerous accelerant in an already volatile environment’

Even if she moved to Islamic State-controlled area and was a sympathiser, it does not prove she was a member, court told

Former Irish soldier (43)  became first person to be convicted in an Irish court of an Islamic terrorist offence committed abroad

Recent developments could make it easier for group to show renewed vigour, say experts

Kurdish community to get citizenship and language rights denied under Assad regime

This smart, punchy book is destined to spark conversation, says Naoise Dolan. It deserves to be a massive hit

Trump spending freeze threatens security arrangements and could make it harder to stop resurgence of Islamic State

During my visit, an administrator says ‘that’s correct’ when I ask if many detainees had died from tuberculosis, and ‘no answer’ when I request the exact figure

Abdullah Ocalan is serving life sentence, but could be freed under tentative Turkish peace process