Published by The i paper (25th February, 2019) Last Thursday, standing inside Al-Hol camp in northern Syria, I came across a bedraggled girl. She was stripping off her […]
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 […]
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, […]
Iraq / World
Don’t be fooled by this defeat for Daesh
Published by The ipaper (10th July 2017) Some Iraqi troops started celebrating the defeat of Isis in Mosul even as their colleagues closed in on the final fighters […]
Iraq / World
Death throes of the caliphate
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th July, 2017) The scenes of destruction were simply apocalyptic. Every street pockmarked by bombs, every building wrecked, every home destroyed, every […]
Iraq / World
James Foley’s brutal death shows the west can’t solve the Iraq crisis
Published by The Guardian (21st August, 2014) The murder of James Foley is sickening. As his grieving parents said, this courageous man had his life terminated for trying to expose […]
Iraq
Please let American jets bomb my prison
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th August, 2014) The call came in the early hours, the voice muffled, furtive and shaking with fear. ‘If they see me […]
Iraq / World
Descent into apocalypse
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th August, 2014) They arrived bristling with heavy weapons and waving black flags from about a dozen Humvees, seized from the Iraqi […]