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Syria: Pro-Assad forces batter Idlib and spark fears of fresh crisis
- Middle East
- January 31, 2020, 16:36
Syria’s last opposition-held province has been battered with 200 airstrikes in the past three days in an assault that has pushed 700,000 civilians to(...)

‘Didn’t the Irish migrate to America? People need to look at it from this perspective’
- People
- October 9, 2019, 06:00
Rabeeb Mirza was 16 when he began training to become an imam. He had been studying for his A-levels at school in Mitcham in south London when he was o(...)

How my work mistake caused an ‘international incident’
- Film
- September 24, 2019
Have you ever wondered who’d play you in a film? I had, occasionally, until the day I got the answer. In spring 2018, a message pinged on to my phone (...)

Taliban kills Afghan soldiers at outposts in northwest
- Asia-Pacific
- May 10, 2019, 20:22
Taliban militants overran a cluster of government outposts in northwestern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving more than a dozen Afghan soldiers dead, incl(...)

Political infighting may have contributed to massive Sri Lankan security blunder
- Asia-Pacific
- April 22, 2019, 20:38
The confidential security memo laid it all out: names, addresses, phone numbers, even the times in the middle of the night that one suspect would visi(...)

US pulls troops out of Libyan capital as rival militias battle
- Middle East
- April 7, 2019, 21:44
The United States evacuated its small contingent of troops from the Libyan capital Sunday as rival militias raced to stop the forces of an aspiring st(...)

US air strikes kill hundreds in Somalia as conflict escalates
- Africa
- March 10, 2019, 22:20
The US military has escalated a battle against al-Shabab, an extremist group affiliated with al-Qaida, in Somalia even as president Donald Trump seeks(...)

US and Taliban agree in principle to peace framework, envoy says
- Asia-Pacific
- January 28, 2019, 13:36
American and Taliban officials have agreed in principle to the framework of a peace deal in which the insurgents guarantee to prevent Afghan territory(...)

Activist and broadcaster assassinated in Syria
- Middle East
- November 23, 2018, 20:19
Armed men in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province assassinated on Friday an activist who ran a radio station that provided independent news and satirised(...)

Trump marks ‘moment when America fought back’ in Pennsylvania
- US
- September 11, 2018
US president Donald Trump led tributes to the thousands of victims who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, as America h(...)