It was a tale of two cities. Or rather, two parts of one city. Beirut: even more divided than usual.
30 October 2019A personal journey.By Paul Martin in Beirut.
A personal journey.By Paul Martin in Beirut.
Eyewitness From Paul Martin outside Beirut. It was like a scene from The Great Escape. Except that the motor-bike rider, after several tyre-spinning attempts to scramble or soar over the barricades, succeeded – unlike Steve McQueen. Others followed.
By Paul Martin, recently in north-east Syria. In Qamishli, the most important town inside the ‘buffer zone’ demanded by the Turks, nothing is changing today.
It was the first day of term at Zwaanswyk High School in Cape Town and the beginning of Miché Solomon’s final year.
The estranged ex-wife of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi says his death has saved her from an ongoing terror: that the world’s worst terrorist would kidnap their only daughter and bring her into what remained of his self-declared Islamic State. In an exclusive interview by Expressen, Saga, who is now 31, said that after she had fled […]
A female user tried to register on a popular Iranian app to hire a bicycle. She was blocked.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the most senior Catholic in Sri Lanka, has told correspondent.world he suspects the Easter bombings six months ago were “not just an attack of some fanatics”. He believes they constituted a deliberate plot to destabilise his country.
By Paul Martin There are two surprises to the British media about the tragic discovery of 39 bodies inside a refrigerated container carried by a truck that crossed the English Channel by ferry from Belgium.
By Paul Martin. Iran’s judo fighters have been banned from competing anywhere in the world – including at next year’s Olympic Games – until the Iran Judo Federation accept that their athletes fight against Israeli athletes.
A new film by Netflix has highlighted the astonishing story of a Middle Eastern spy.
By Paul Martin, recently in northern Syria. Shamima Begum, the British teenager who joined ISIS, married a fighter and lost three children, could become a “human shield”, says her London-based lawyer.
By Paul Martin
By Paul Martin. Recently in eastern Syria. The Syrian government’s flag flies on the outskirts of the biggest Syrian Kurdish city, Qamishly. It lies near the Turkish border between the two rivers, the Euphrates to the west and the Tigris to the east. Most of the land around it is held by Syrian Kurdish forces. […]
By Paul Martin. Recently in northern Syria. The Turkish army is already in action against the Kurds in northern Syria and northern Iraq.
By Paul Cainer in Negombo, Sri Lanka At a village church about 20 miles north of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, a large notice board displays a list of names starting at 1 and ending at 115. All of them were killed by one murderer – who exploded his suicide bomb during an Easter church […]