MIDDLE EAST Timeline May 2016

 BBC News headlines unless otherwise stated.

1^st May 2016

Iraq protesters camp outside parliament

2^nd May 2016

(John) Kerry begins bid to end Syrian fighting

3^rd May 2016

Dozens killed' in rebel rocket attack on hospital in Syria (ITV News)

IS files reveal Assad's deals with militants (Sky News)

Escaped ISIS sex slave reveals she was kidnapped and trafficked by 'new jihadi John' (Daily Express)

4^th May 2016

IS files reveal a militant bureaucracy (Sky News)

IS files: from Coventry to jihadist fighters (Sky News)

5^th May 2016

Syrians have no chance of asylum in Russia (Sky News)

6^th May 2016

Syria refugee camp strike 'war crime'

US condemns Assad as he pushes for 'final victory' in Aleppo (Daily Express)

7^th May 2016

UN counts 'more than 50' IS mass graves

8^th May 2016

More than 50 IS fighters killed near Aleppo (Sky News)

The dog of war: SAS team ambushed by evil ISIS jihadis saved by faithful pooch (Daily Express)

11^th May 2016

Dozens killed in Baghdad car bombings

ISIS release app for children teaching Arabic-but filled with hidden jihadi messages (Daily Express)

ISIS kills Christians for refusing to convert to Islam in sickening video (Daily Express)

13^th May 2016

Top Hezbollah commander killed in Syria

Muslim lynch mob 'chases Christians from homes' demanding they convert to Islam (Daily Express)

14^th May 2016

'Jihadists' killed Hezbollah commander

15^th May 2016

IS suicide bombers hit Iraqi gas plant

16^th May 2016

Horrific ISIS propaganda video shows French boys executing prisoners (Daily Express)

17^th May 2016

Inside an Iraqi village liberated from Islamic state (ITV NEWS)

Revealed: SAS soldiers 'to get wing suits to silently pick off Islamic state savages' (Daily Express)

Horrifying mass grave discovered containing thousands of civilians slaughtered by ISIS (Daily Express)

18^th May 2016

The Syrian war seen through the eyes of a child (ITV NEWS)

Courageous Christian to the end – last words of girl burned alive by ISIS: forgive them (Daily Express)

Sick Islamic state fighter boasts about desecrating Christian graves in Syria (Daily Express)

19^th May 2016

Islamic state tortures children like men' after forcing them to confess to false charges (Daily Express)

Middle east refugee re homing plan fails (Daily Express)

21^st May 2016

Forget the west-its up to Arab states to defeat ISIS, security expert urges (Daily Express)

22^nd May 2016

Top US commander on secret Syria visit

Revealed: almost 90% of jihadis who return to UK could be free to fight again (Daily Express)

Christian congregation standing up against ISIS brutality in terror heartland (Daily Express)

23^rd May 2016

Iraq PM: attack on IS on Falluja starts

24^th May 2016

Long assault to free Fallujah from IS (Sky News)

Iraqi army begins mission to retake Fallujah (Sky News)

ISIS arms death squads to slay civilians as Iraqi army obliterates jihadi stronghold (Daily Express)

25^th May 2016

Kurds launch attack near IS 'capital'

26^th May 2016

Now Islamic state uses kittens and sweets to lure vulnerable would be jihadis into the cult (Daily Express)

Superpowers unite to destroy evil: Russia invites USA to team up to annihilate ISIS (Daily Express)

27^th May 2016

'ISIS soldiers are easy to kill' female fighter boasts about blitzing jihadists in Syria (Daily Express)

28^th May 2016

The Syrian war seen through the eyes of a child (ITV News)

Air strikes kill IS leader and 70 fighters (71) (Sky News)