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The price of a life
By Sophie McBain
In 2014, Islamic State fighters murdered thousands of Yazidis and kidnapped many others, mostly women and children. Their desperate relatives are now trying to buy them back.
How Vladimir Putin lost Ukraine
By Elizabeth Pond
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We meet evicted inhabitants of Europe’s largest slum, which is being bulldozed by the French authorities.
Syria’s world war: how the West allowed Russian and Iran to take control
By John Jenkins
As the civil war rages on, Syria has become a theatre for great-power rivalry, with Russia and Iran turning cynical opportunism into high policy.
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What would a Trump presidency mean for the rest of the world?
By Brendan Simms
It would be wrong to hope that either domestic or international checks and balances will constrain Trump abroad. Geopolitically, the result would be unpredictable – at best.
Brothers in blood: how Putin has helped Assad tear Syria apart
By Shiraz Maher
The Syrian catastrophe has created the worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War. And the world watches helplessly as Putin and Assad commit war crimes.
Second life: one refugee family’s journey to Hull, via Darfur, Tripoli and Cairo
By Sophie McBain
In 2015 the government’s Gateway programme offered 750 refugees the chance to resettle in the UK. Our writer followed one family for six months as they made the journey to England. This article won the feature writing prize at the Amnesty Media Awards in November 2016.
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Fight to the death in Mosul
By Quentin Somerville
The street-by-street battle against Islamic State for control of Iraq’s second city.
Europe’s states of disorder
By John Gray
Those optimistically talking about a “soft Brexit” are missing the bigger picture.
Mass democracy has failed – it’s time to seek a humane alternative
By Rowan Williams
Trump’s theatrical politics are a betrayal of the disenfranchised. To move forward, we need better analysis of and investment in local civic activism.