The US and its Arab partners carried out air strikes against oil refineries controlled by the Islamic State. US, Saudi and Emirati warplanes targeted oil installations in the eastern part of the country that have helped fund the group’s dramatic rise from a rebel faction to an alleged global threat.
David Cameron told the United Nations general assembly the UK was ready to play its part in confronting Islamic State militants in Iraq. The British prime minister warned that Britain must not be so "frozen with fear" of repeating the mistakes of the Iraq war that it failed to challenge the "psychopathic, murderous, brutal" jihadis.
An Islamic State-linked group in Algeria which had demanded France halt its participation in air strikes against IS posted video footage of the execution of an abducted Frenchman.
Adam Choudary, an extremist preacher who said he had no sympathy for Alan Henning, the British hostage held by Islamic State radicals, has been arrested in London along with nine people as part of an investigation into Islamist terrorism.
