Published by The ipaper (18th March, 2019) Five years ago I was reporting from Iraq when I wrote about Kocho, a Yazidi village where Islamic State (IS) fanatics […]
Syria / World
Plight of the little boys brainwashed into being ISIS suicide bombers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd March, 2019) Milad was just seven when Islamic State gunmen tore him from his family as they cowered in a building alongside […]
Iraq / World
Don’t be fooled by this defeat for Daesh
Published by The ipaper (10th July 2017) Some Iraqi troops started celebrating the defeat of Isis in Mosul even as their colleagues closed in on the final fighters […]
Iraq / Syria / World
The face of raw courage
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th January, 2017) She stood defiant in the dock. Blood poured from her mouth and nose, while her body was covered with […]
Iraq / World
Slaughter after ultimatum exposed by MoS
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th August, 2014) Islamic State militants have massacred most of the men living in an Iraqi village after the inhabitants, members of […]
Iraq / World
James Foley’s brutal death shows the west can’t solve the Iraq crisis
Published by The Guardian (21st August, 2014) The murder of James Foley is sickening. As his grieving parents said, this courageous man had his life terminated for trying to expose […]
Iraq
Please let American jets bomb my prison
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th August, 2014) The call came in the early hours, the voice muffled, furtive and shaking with fear. ‘If they see me […]
Iraq / World
Descent into apocalypse
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th August, 2014) They arrived bristling with heavy weapons and waving black flags from about a dozen Humvees, seized from the Iraqi […]