AL QAEDA

Between 20,000 and 30,000 members of Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) remain in Iraq and Syria despite the militant group's defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks, according to a new United Nations report.

When Joe Biden gets candid, he really lets rip. The US vice president, speaking at the John F. Kennedy Jr Forum at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, on Thursday told his audience – point blank – that America’s Sunni allies are responsible for funding and arming Al Qaeda-type extremists in Syria.