Alex Thomson
Inside the Taliban gun battle house
Najibullah is good enough to show us around the house that is now a total ruin and he gives the sense of man unsure whom he is more angry with – Taliban or government?
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Abu Hamza: ‘I was working for British intelligence’
Abu Hamza, the extremist cleric, has claimed in court that he was working with British intelligence “to keep the streets of London safe” while preaching hatred in the UK.
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Remembering the horrors of the Rwandan genocide
In 1994, 800,000 people were massacred in Rwanda in the worst genocide since the Holocaust. Lindsey Hilsum was the only western journalist in the capital, Kigali. She recounts that terrible episode.
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CIA ‘repeatedly lied to Congress’
The CIA misled the American people for years about the treatment of terrorist suspects, according to a leaked report into torture. Washington Correspondent Kylie Morris reports.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
Two attacks in two days: insurgents target Afghan election
At a gun battle in Kabul Alex Thomson reports how Kabul reacts, if you can you get off the streets regardless of where the attack is happening – you get off them fast.
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Alex Thomson
Why we still need Vladimir Putin on our side
So Crimea has voted. It was messy, ugly, but it is also undeniably true that the majority will of the people in Crimea has prevailed – so what does the west do now?
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Alex Thomson
Armed forces are incapable of dealing with bullying
New powers for the MOD ombudsman are just a “sop” and will make “no real difference at all” says a former army officer.
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Alex Thomson
The drip drip of foreign blood on Afghan dust
With the crisis in Ukraine sweeping all headlines before it, it is hard to recall that the reason John Kerry ever stepped on to a plane to Europe in recent days was for Afghanistan.
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Paul Mason
Will a Russian invasion of Ukraine push the west into an economic war?
If an economic proxy war breaks out between the EU, USA and Russia, and China backs the latter, then you can kiss globalisation goodbye.
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What is ABI – and will it make drones even deadlier?
This week Senator John McCain moved to shift control of US drones from the CIA to the defence department. Meanwhile, fears grow about the application of activity-based intelligence to drones.
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‘Seeds of genocide’ in Central African Republic
Witnesses who have fled the fighting in CAR claimed Muslims were being “butchered like sheep”. A new interim president is in charge, but the killing and the looting have not stopped.
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Alex Thomson
CAR: Colonel Bogey and the interim, interim president
It’s not every day in Bangui that you hear the stirring sound of Colonel Bogey or The Great Escape theme belted out by a military band.
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Alex Thomson
CAR crisis: President Djotodia resigns at summit
Central African Republic’s interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned. The people got their wish. Talks to decide a new leadership will now take place in Bangui.
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Alex Thomson
What does the new year hold for CAR?
Whilst we were all shutting down the shop over Christmas, things went from an already drastic situation in the Central African Republic to levels of unspeakable violence.
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Paul Mason
Alan Turing: codebreaker and imagineer hounded by the state
Paul Mason profiles the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, who has been pardoned by the Queen today.
