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War reporting

July 2021

  • Danish Siddiqui.

    Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist killed by Taliban in Afghanistan

  • Captive Ethiopian soldiers walk towards the rehabilitation centre in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region.

    Captured Ethiopian government soldiers reach Tigray capital – in pictures

May 2021

  • Richie Brave

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Sunday Feature; 1Xtra Talks With Richie Brave; Assignment

  • Moving … For Sama director Waad Al-Kateab joins Carey Mulligan to discuss Syria in the Conflict of Interest podcast.

    Battle station: the celebrity podcast that explains modern warfare

  • Sebastian Junger

    ‘I almost died last summer’: Sebastian Junger on life, death and his new book Freedom

  • From left: Neville Cardus; photograph to mark the Guardian’s centenary, CE Montague is second from left in the back row, with CP Scott front and centre; Nesta Roberts; CLR James; Evelyn Sharp being arrested in 1913; Jill Tweedie

    Guardian 200
    Marxists, feminists – and Olympians: the most dazzling Guardian writers over 200 years

April 2021

  • Battle of Britain, 1941, Paul Nash (1889–1946) IWM (Imperial War Museums), Photo credit IWM (Imperial War Museums)

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: smoke tracks in a summer sky and Britain’s fight for survival

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Paul Nash’s Battle of Britain at the Imperial War Museum London

March 2021

  • Simon Tisdall

    Ten grim lessons the world has learned from a decade of war in Syria

    Simon Tisdall
    The legacies of the toxic conflict are global, pernicious and ongoing

December 2020

  • Refugees flee Isis and take refuge behind Peshmerga lines, Iraq, 2016.

    The big picture
    The big picture: exodus on the road to Mosul, 2016

    In 2016, Paolo Pellegrin found an entire village retreating from Isis, among them this young girl

November 2020

  • Jan Morris, pictured at her home near the village of Llanystumdwy, north Wales.

    Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94

    From her Everest scoop to her journey as a trans woman, the author’s authoritative voice and questioning mind found an eager audience
  • TOPSHOT-SYRIA-CONFLICT-ALEPPO<br>TOPSHOT - A Syrian civil defence volunteer, known as the White Helmets, holds the body of a child after he was pulled from the rubble following a government forces air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Karm Homad in the northern city of Aleppo, on October 4, 2016.
Syrian regime forces advanced against rebels during intense street battles in the heart of Aleppo, after the United States abandoned talks with Russia aimed at reviving a ceasefire deal.
 / AFP / AMEER ALHALBI        (Photo credit should read AMEER ALHALBI/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets – podcast

    In November 2019, James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, fell to his death in Istanbul. What led an internationally celebrated humanitarian to take his own life?
  • Robert Fisk in Homs, Syria in 2019.

    Robert Fisk obituary

    Veteran journalist and author whose postings read like a battle roll of the post-colonial wars he despised

October 2020

  • Members of the Syrian civil defence, also known as the White Helmets, in the mostly rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib.

    The long read
    How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets

  • Manbij in northern Syria was held by Isis before being liberated by the Kurds.

    How star reporter’s Syria podcast sent New York Times into crisis

September 2020

  • People gather at the site of car bomb attack in Homs in April 2014

    BBC journalist settles case after claiming she was bullied into Syria trip

  • Surer (left) and Saredo Mohamed: ‘Many of us who have grown up in the aftermath of war have made whole lives out of fixing this.’

    'It’s like opening up a wound to let it heal': the sisters giving war refugees a voice

June 2020

  • Lyse Doucet on a recent trip to Yemen.

    Toxic mix of violence and virus sweeps poorest countries, warns war reporter

    Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan are among the war-racked nations facing a nightmare scenario from the global pandemic

March 2020

  • Yazidi’s women attend a ceremony at Lilash Temple to commemorate the death of women who were killed by Islamic State militants, during the International Women Day, in Shikhan north of Iraq March 8, 2019. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - RC1931499810

    Observer book of the week
    Our Bodies, Their Battlefield by Christina Lamb review – the eternal war against women

    This harrowing account of the thousands of rape victims airbrushed from history is required reading

January 2020

  • Suzanne Moore

    We should thank Fergal Keane for bearing witness to unbearable horrors

    Suzanne Moore
    The BBC reporter has revealed that his work has left him with PTSD. On Holocaust Memorial Day, we should remember the debt we owe to those who have experienced dreadful things on our behalf, says Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore

November 2019

  • Richard Lindley covered conflicts across the world, including in Iraq, Biafra, Rhodesia, Bangladesh, Yemen and Vietnam

    Richard Lindley obituary

    Foreign correspondent revered for his integrity, who reported from war zones for the BBC’s Panorama and for ITV
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