Lindsey Hilsum
Iraq: the last days of Maliki?
As long as Nouri al Maliki refuses to step down, the Iraqi government is doing no governing at all, let alone getting a grip on the military disaster to the north.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Lindsey Hilsum
One of the unsung heroes of world war one
Remy Himmer was the director of a textile factory in Dinant, who in 1914 attempted to save the lives of more than 40 employees, including women and children.
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Lindsey Hilsum
‘I remember the sound of their boots marching past’
Now 103, the last survivor of the German army’s most notorious WWI war crime remembers her father’s words: “If you don’t obey, the Germans will kill you.”
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Lindsey Hilsum
What is Hamas trying to achieve in Gaza?
As diplomats try to find a way out of this crisis, how Hamas is fighting Israel? What is the military strategy and what does it hope to achieve?
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Lindsey Hilsum
Searching for the truth about MH17
The nuttiest conspiracy theory I’ve seen so far has it that flight MH17 was full of the bodies of those who died on flight MH370, the aircraft that disappeared over the Indian Ocean back in March.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Salwa Bugaighis: Libyan human rights activist who took on Gaddafi
The Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Karbala’s holy shrines, under threat from Isis
It was all too easy to imagine the carnage and devastation if the extremists of Isis try to carry out their threat to attack the most holy place in Shia Islam.
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Lindsey Hilsum
The Iraqi sheikh who wants the British ‘to stand by us’
Sheikh Mustafa Jboori has seen enough strife in Iraq, but thinks the current crisis is worse than 2006 – and Saddam Hussein.
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Lindsey Hilsum
The rolling stone that changed rock and pop forever
Bob Dylan’s 1965 song “Like a Rolling Stone” changed rock and pop forever. Now fans have their chance to get their hands on musical history as the original pages to its lyrics will be auctioned in New York.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Bread not bullets: Ukraine’s locals and soldiers against war
As we saw the crowds gathering round the Ukrainian armoured personnel carriers parked near the railway tracks in Kramatorsk we thought we might encounter a hostile crowd.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Syria’s war: no one controls the castle forever
The Islamist rebels who have been occupying the Crac des Chevaliers crusader castle near Homs probably didn’t spend much time contemplating the irony of it all.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Defiance and desperation inside the siege of Douma
Rebel fighters in besieged Douma say they will never surrender. But conditions for civilians are becoming desperate.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Guns, gangsters and girls – a referendum night Crimean style
“I came downstairs with no problem, but our producer was shoved back into her room on the 4th floor, pistol to her neck, by a man in black. “
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Lindsey Hilsum
Ghosts of history haunt Crimea ahead of referendum
Hundreds of Crimeans queued at banks today, fearing that after Sunday’s referendum on rejoining Russia they won’t have access to their savings.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Crimea’s Tatars: fearing a return to Stalin-era terror
The soldiers came at midnight when the children were sleeping. Sabrie, who was ten, struggled to stay awake as her mother grabbed her little sister and two brothers.