Steven Sotloff

Japan has been dragged into the turmoil in the Middle East after Islamic State militants threatened to behead two of its nationals.The threat, issued (...)

A video apparently showing the beheading of British hostage Alan Henning was released on the internet last night by Islamic State militants. The foota(...)

The widow of British aid worker Alan Henning said his family and friends were “numb with grief” after receiving the news that he had been murdered by (...)

President François Hollande last night confirmed the “cowardly, cruel, shameful murder” of Hervé Gourdel (55), the French mountain guide kidnapped by(...)

British prime minister David Cameron has promised to take whatever steps are necessary to defeat the “monsters” in the Islamic State jihadi group w(...)

Britain resisted pressure today to join the United States in announcing air strikes against Islamic State after the militant group beheaded David Hain(...)

The family of a Scottish aid worker thought to be being held by Islamic militants in Syria has urged his captors to contact them.Islamic State (IS) e(...)

US president Barack Obama sought to make up some lost ground with a confident, uncharacteristically belligerent speech televised to the American peopl(...)

In January, United States president Barack Obama dismissed the possibility of militant Islamic fighters in Iraq striking the US, saying their capacity(...)

The family of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist beheaded by Islamic State militants, said yesterday he was “a gentle soul”, and challenge(...)