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Thousands of fighters have been killed and thousands are on the run, most recently after the Kurdish forces captured the town of Al-Shafa. But what is happening to the women from around the world who say they travelled there in the promise of a pure Islamic life? Some volunteered. Others say they were duped.
Boris Johnson, who was a key figurehead in the Vote Leave campaign, said: “I didn’t say anything about Turkey in the referendum… I didn’t say a thing about Turkey.” We’ve checked the record and we don’t think that’s true.
People shouldn’t risk their lives to cross the Channel, the Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared today, as he defended the Government’s decision to declare a major incident over the number of migrants trying to reach the UK.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled across the border since August last year and the UN says it continues to get reports of serious rights violations in Rakhine state, including alleged killings, disappearances and arbitrary arrests.
Jon Snow
Chicago O’Hare Airport. Mile upon mile of concrete runways with tiny quadrants of grass, and slow moving aircraft traffic criss-crossing ahead of us. We are in America. The eternal passport control awaits us, and thence to the open road. Five lanes in each direction, massive ten wheeler wagons belching un-green gases along in all but the not…
Now is the best time to be alive. You might not think so with populists on the march across Europe, wars raging around the world and an unfolding refugee crisis. But the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker claims our life is actually getting better. Matt Frei met him at the ‘How The Light Gets In’ philosophy…
It’s been described as the worst refugee crisis in recent Latin American history – the majority of those fleeing Venezuela have crossed into neighbouring Colombia, and then on to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Others have gone south to Brazil. Concerned by the influx, these countries are imposing tighter border restrictions. Channel 4 News’ Guilllermo Galdos went to Peru where migrants will require…
In Somalia, poverty is forcing women into sexual exploitation as men from the country who’ve emigrated to the west return to take advantage of them. Many of the women are refugees who are lured by the offer of a better life abroad. They often go through a fake wedding ceremony. The women are later abandoned…
The Brexit campaign had its own Project Fear, of course – it was the prospect of Turkey joining the EU and millions of Turks freely coming to Britain. Turkey has had a huge refugee influx from Syria, immigration that has its own effect on politics there. This weekend, Turkey votes in an election that could…
Immigration, and our attitude to it, has rarely been out of the headlines, as these revelatory Channel 4 News reports by Simon Israel from the last decade show.
In just one article, Ms Coulter has made ten false or contested claims about immigration, mass shootings and gun control. Here they are.
The resurgence of movements inspired by Fascism have been very much part of Italy’s chaotic electoral campaign. The combination of a struggling economy and the mass influx of migrants and refugees in recent years have created fertile ground for ultra-nationalistic rhetoric. Channel 4 News spent time with a tiny but ambitious political party called CasaPound which…
Angry is a play featuring a series of six monologues on subjects ranging from millennial rage to violence and the refugee crisis. The parts are “gender neutral” and alternate each night, playing with interpretations of gender, race and sexuality. The show has a cast of just two: Olivier-nominated Tyrone Huntley and Georgie Henley, who got…
You might remember him as “the man who broke the Bank of England”, but George Soros is also at the centre of dozens of conspiracy theories. Here’s why they don’t stack up.
From a talented young photographer who died in the Grenfell fire to a Syrian artist whose work has been inspired by the refugee crisis: they’re all part of a new show which opens at the Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge this weekend. Featuring 38 artists, the exhibition sets out to explore the role of art…