Civillians in the city faced a Catch-22: told by US-led Coalition forces to get away from Isis positions before they were shelled; yet threatened with execution by Isis if they tried to escape

Why Isis fighters are being thrown off buildings in Mosul

Many bodies are still buried in the rubble with parts of Mosul inaccessible thanks to streets choked with debris

The systematic spreading of fear through terrorism is an integral part of the way Isis conducts warfare

It is disgusting but revealing that the Government has still not withdrawn a press release which is entitled ‘Government going further to cut red tape by £10 billion’

Natural and man-made disasters have frequently been the last nail in the coffin of governments that were already tottering

Western governments as a whole like to pretend that their policy blunders, notably those of military intervention in the Middle East since 2001, did not prepare the soil for al-Qaeda and Isis

U.S. & Russia Bomb Syria’s Civilians When They Could Help End its War

British Libyans and Libyan exiles who had their passports returned to fight Gaddafi were always unlikely to return as model citizens

The only feasible way to eliminate organisations capable of carrying out these attacks is to end the seven wars – Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and north east Nigeria – that cross-infect each other