Middle East and North Africa
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Nearly 500,000 online searches a month return Islamist material, says report that advocates multilateral approach to removing extremist sites
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Group’s leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, says move is aimed at ‘removing excuse used by international community to bombard Muslims in the Levant’
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Exclusive: Mangar Makur Chuot’s Australian coach says South Sudan’s selection process for the Games has been corrupted
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Travel operator will miss profit target after sharp decline in bookings to Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia results in £25m quarterly loss
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Hundreds of thousands face running out of food in besieged city, while Isis launches bloody attack in border town of Qamishli
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Strike in the village of Tokkhar is considered the deadliest coalition attack on civilians in a two-year war against Isis, and the death toll remains under dispute
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Overturning the jihadi group will leave an ideological vacuum – and to prevent it from rising again, young people need jobs and political representation
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Amateur footage appears to show the aftermath of two fatal car bombs in north-eastern Syria on Wednesday.
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Khan, 73, made a string of popular and critically acclaimed movies, often with female protagonists
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Letter urges Boris Johnson to act on behalf of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been held in prison in Iran for more than three months
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Letters: The real life story of the Altounyan children would have been so much more interesting
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Morality police swoop on festivities near Tehran as crackdown on socialising of men and women grows during summer months
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With humanitarian aid for Syrian city cut off by government forces, United Nations ambassadors warn of unfolding catastrophe
Isis is escalating its violence against Iraqi civilians. Why doesn’t the world care?