ISIS

Keir Starmer's foreign policy still lacks a coherent and well-formed structure (Picture: Yui Mok/PA)

Starmer must end his strategic silence on international affairs – Azeem Ibrahim

Shamima Begum. (Photo by Laura Lean - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Shamima Begum: ISIS bride loses legal case to return to UK

The then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer and SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford attend a service to honour Sir David Amess at St Margaret's church in London last year (Picture: Jonathan Brady/WPA pool/Getty Images)

There is a democratic duty to respect political opponents – Scotsman comment

A screen grab taken from ITV of Shamima Begum speaking to Good Morning Britain from the al-Roj prison camp in Syria. Picture: ITV

Shamima Begum wants to face terror trial in UK to prove innocence

Police officers shot and killed the man within 60 seconds of the attack (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Violent extremist’ killed in New Zealand after stabbing multiple people in supe...

A man has been killed by police after injuring multiple people in a mass stabbing incident at LynnMall supermarket in West Auckland. Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern has addressed the country describing the attack as violent and senseless. (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

New Zealand supermarket stabbing 'ISIS-inspired terrorist attack'

Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue was the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan (Photo: Department of Defence / Twitter)

RAF prepared to launch air strikes against ISIS as US completes Afghanistan with...

Audience members at Niqabi Ninja in Edinburgh

EIF theatre review: Niqabi Ninja

Displaced women from Palma are seen at the Pemba Sports center on April 2 where people were evacuated from the coasts of Palma after armed insurgents attacked the city on March 24. (Getty Images)

What we know about the terror attacks in Mozambique

A photograph showing Shamima Begum when she was 15 (Getty Images)

Who is Shamima Begum?

A Klansman raises his left arm during a "white power" chant at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 2000 (Getty Images)

Is the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist organisation?

Syrian demonstrators burn the US flag as they gather in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo to mourn the death of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and nine others in a US air strike in Baghdad. (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

Barack Obama and now Donald Trump acting as if US presidents can kill people on ...

Donald Trump has threaten to destroy important Iranian cultural sites (Picture: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Boris Johnson gives hope he will not blindly follow Donald Trump – leader commen...

Mike Haines has been touring schools to talk to pupils about the importance of standing up against hate and coming together through unity to defeat extremism.

Murdered aid worker’s brother brings his campaign to defeat extremism to Fife

18,000 reasons why Isis leader’s death isn’t the end of this death cult – Angus ...

A convoy of US military vehicles arrives near the Iraqi Kurdish town of Bardarash, Dohuk, on Monday, after withdrawing from northern Syria (Picture: Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds is worse than you may realise – Struan Stev...

'Lines on a map'.

Why it’s important to remember Scotland doesn’t actually exist – Ian Johnston

Spain’s terror threat has been raised to 'severe' - here’s what travellers need ...

Ten-year-old Ashayal Rosairo was injured in an attack on the Zion church in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka (Picture: Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

The proof Isis are not true Muslims – Dr Azeem Ibrahim

The proof Isis are not true Muslims – Dr Azeem Ibrahim

Relief as ‘lost girl’ search at Asda Stenhousemuir is called off

Shamima Begum fled the UK to join the Islamic State terror group in Syria aged 15 and has been stripped of her British citizenship by the Home Office. Picture: PA/PA Wire

Shamima Begum: Fear and loathing has robbed us of good judgement – Tom Wood

Aaron Campbell and Shamima Begum and have highlighted societys difficulties in dealing with offenders below the age of 18.

Dani Garavelli: Can justice rise above a lynch mob mentality?

Shimima Begum. Picture: PA/PA Wire

ISIS teenager Shamima Begum ‘is not a Bangladeshi citizen’

Shimima Begum (Metropolitan Police via AP)

ISIS teenager Shamima Begum ‘has British citizenship revoked’

Helping deal with the specific treatment of child victims of war across the globe is the key aim of a new manual which will be previewed today in Edinburgh by Dr Emily Mayhew who leads the Paediatric Blast Injury Partnership. Picture: contributed

Child blast war victim manual set for preview at global conflict conference

Matt Tonroe. Picture: MOD

British soldier who died fighting ISIS in Syria named

The conflict in Syria is continuing. Picture: AFP/Getty

British soldier dies fighting ISIS in Syria

Sally Jones fled the UK to join the terror group. Picture: Twitter

ISIS recruiter Sally Jones '˜desperate to return to UK'

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the leader of so-called Islamic State. Picture: YouTube

Has ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi been killed?

Mourners in the Philippine capital, Manila, light candles and lay flowers in front of a memorial outside the Resorts World Manila entertainment complex. Picture: AP Photo/Todd Pitman

No talks even if you kill hostages, Philippines president tells Isis

The graffiti outside the mosque. Picture: Alisdair Woodburn/Twitter

Terrorist graffiti found outside Glasgow Central mosque

Civil war has brought only misery to Syria's farmers. Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

Syria's crop production badly wounded by a brutal war

A Pentagon spokesman said it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43 (Eglin Air Force Base via AP)

US forces drop '˜mother of all bombs' on Isis fighters

A screen shot from a video in which Rod Stewart 're-enacts' an Isis-style beheading

Rod Stewart apologises for re-enactment of Isis '˜beheading'

Syrian civilians and rescuers gather at site of government forces air strikes in the rebel held neighbourhood of Al-Shaar in Aleppo on September 27, 2016. PIC: KARAM AL-MASRI/AFP/Getty Images

Book review: The Age of Jihad, by Patrick Cockburn

Ex-PM David Cameron was called 'opportunistic' by MPs. Picture: Lisa Ferguson.

David Cameron blamed for ISIS rise in Libya by MPs

Sculptor Sandy Stoddart in his studio in Paisley. Picture: Robert Perry

Edinburgh architects' effect on skyline compared to ISIS

Former prime minister Tony Blair. Picture: Getty Images

Tony Blair: 9/11 was an attack on the free world

Police officers look on as England fans shout and chant outside a bar. Picture: Getty

Video: England fans arrested after Marseille clashes

The fact is that the role of religion in radicalisation (and deradicalisation) is grossly overestimated. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Roddy Gow: Key to deradicalisation is combating ignorance

The Pope leaves the open-air mass at Cuidad Real in Mexico to catch a flight back to Rome. On it, he made a not-so-coded attack on Donald Trumps immigration policy. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP

Dani Garavelli: If the Pope can't stop Trump, can anyone?
IF THE battle to become the Republican presidential candidate long ago descended into a reality TV show '“ with the loudest, brashest, most orange contestant es...

Pope Francis criticised Trump's plans for a wall along the border with Mexico. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Pope Francis says Donald Trump '˜not a Christian'

Album review: David Bowie, Blackstar

Protestors rally outside the Plaza Hotel on December 11, 2015 in New York. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump: More UK Muslims join IS than UK army

Air strikes on Syria may or may not work but there is no justification for banning them while still bombing Iraq. Picture: Getty

Brian Wilson: Nothing is as certain as uncertainty

Omar Raza, left, with the cast of Fags, Mags and Bags

Scottish actor Omar Raza assaulted ‘after Paris attack’

The new sign which has been put up at the entrance to Larkhall. Picture: Twitter/@johnandlouie

Larkhall residents erect sign telling ISIS to ‘f**k off’

A rose is pictured in a bullet hole in a window, rue de Charonne, in Paris. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Leaders: At what price freedom?

Doug Stanhope.

Picture: Neil Hanna

Comedy review: Doug Stanhope, Glasgow

Only cool heads can cope with chaos

Germany's welcome for migrants is understandable, given the countrys demographic need for workers to ensure its continued economic success, in contrast to the UK. Picture: Getty

Brian Monteith: Easy decisions not always best

Jamie McCarroll. Picture: HeMedia

Former Glasgow soldier to leave UK to fight Isis

The man threatened to burn an ISIS flag in front of worshippers at a mosque. Picture: Getty

Man ‘threatened to burn ISIS flag’ at Livingston mosque

The boy admitted encouraging a terror attack targeting at an Anzac Day parade in Australia. Picture: TPSL

Boy, 15, urged terror attack on Anzac police

A US Hornet is among aircraft used in the strikes on IS targets. Picture: AP

RAF strikes in Syria ‘flout democratic will’

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