Before Syria, I saw John Cantlie’s drive for danger
The photojournalist and subject of the new documentary Hostage was a fearless risk-taker
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Paul Conroy knew the importance of bearing witness
The war photographer has died aged 61
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Syria, from the Ottomans to al-Qaeda
The country is still haunted by a long and fractured past
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Noam Chomsky’s reputation will never recover from the Epstein files
If you ever saw Chomsky as a moral paragon, you weren’t paying attention
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David Lammy’s Gaza cowardice
In a letter last week, Lammy said the Foreign Office had concluded Israel’s actions were not a genocide.
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Israel’s calculus on Syria
Benjamin Netanyahu has forgone diplomacy in favour of airstrikes on Damascus.
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The mutation of jihad
Spectacular global terror is losing ground to a new form of Islamist governance.
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Syria may be broken, but it’s energised by hope
The famous ice cream store, Bakdash, was packed, as it was when I visited in 2008.
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Syria’s post-sanction future
The economic and geopolitical implications of Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on the post-war state are monumental.
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Syria’s sectarian rage
Ahmed al-Sharaa wants to unite the country. But deep divisions threaten a renewed cycle of death and chaos.
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The year ahead: Are we on the verge of a new Middle East?
A democratic Syria and rising Turkey would ask different questions of Israel.
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The Syrian people yearn to take control of their own destiny
Bashar al-Assad has gone but, as elation begins to be edged out by anxiety, what comes after authoritarianism?
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The New Statesman’s A-Z of 2024
A rundown of the year, from Charli XCX and Jeremy Clarkson to the incumbency curse and floods in Valencia.
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The year ahead: “The Middle East is going to get solved”
Donald Trump has promised he’ll achieve peace in the region. We’d be foolish to believe him.
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Inside Syria’s “human slaughterhouse”
Bashar al-Assad tortured and mutilated his own people. Will the country he leaves behind ever recover?
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The tragedy of Greater Syria
With the Middle East in turmoil, could Israel now step into the breach?
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The Kremlin’s new calculus on Syria
Vladimir Putin bet on Bashar al-Assad’s murderous rule. Now Russia is shifting course.
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What happens when a tyrant flees
What’s next for Syria, Assad, and the wider region?
The Syrian crucible
Can a new Middle East be fashioned from the ruins of the Assad regime?
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Bashar al-Assad will find no peace in Moscow
Like many tyrants before him, the Syrian dictator will live his life on the run – and die in fear.
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