Published by The ipaper (18th March, 2019) Five years ago I was reporting from Iraq when I wrote about Kocho, a Yazidi village where Islamic State (IS) fanatics […]
Syria / World
She said she was terrified her son would die in camp
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th March, 2019) Shamima Begum told me she was ‘terrified’ her baby son Jarrah would die when we met inside a Syrian […]
Syria / World
Plight of the little boys brainwashed into being ISIS suicide bombers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) Milad was just seven when Islamic State gunmen tore him from his family as they cowered in a building alongside […]
Syria / World
IS zealots face final assault as coalition forces close
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) Thick black smoke rose over the Syrian village of Baghouz yesterday as Western-backed forces advanced on two fronts in […]
Syria / World
More British jihadi brides hide among us in camp, say IS women
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th February, 2019) British women fleeing from Islamic State’s last pocket of land are giving false names and hiding their identities among […]
Europe / European Union / Politics / United States / World
Trump is terrible – but the sabotage of Brexit will outlast him
Published by The Washington Post (18th February, 2019) For most of my life, Britain and the United States have felt like twins. My country was older and perhaps […]
Iraq / Syria / World
This war is far from over
Published by The i paper (18th February, 2019) How little they learn from history. Just 16 years ago President George W. Bush stood on the deck of an […]
Iraq / Syria / World
Death squads roam in the ruins of the caliphate
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th February, 2019) The civilians able to escape have fled. Now there are just an estimated 500 fighters, many of them foreigners, […]
Venezuela / World
Did Socialism really destroy Venezuela?
Published by The i paper (28th January, 2019) When I visited Venezuela three decades ago, it was the envy of Latin America with its stable democracy and oil-based […]