- Aung San Suu Kyi, Human rights, Joe Biden, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, United Nations, World news
Myanmar’s top general Min Aung Hlaing is strangling a democracy. What will the west do about it?
Joe Biden’s ‘waffle-fest’ summit shows the international community is toothless when faced with a murderous ju…
- Afghanistan, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, House of Commons, Iain Duncan Smith, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Raab’s negligence over Kabul is now clear. If he had any honour, he’d quit | Simon Tisdall
Official cables confirm that the former foreign secretary could have foreseen the chaos of the Afghanistan wit…
- Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, Arms trade, George Bush, Islamic State, Osama bin Laden, September 11 2001, South and Central Asia, Tony Blair, UK security and counter-terrorism, US foreign policy, US news, Uyghurs, World news, Yemen
Lives lost, poverty, an arms race, rights destroyed … the continuing cost of 9/11
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been mor…
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Afghanistan will be seen as Joe Biden’s defeat. And it may come back to haunt him
The American public will not be in a forgiving mood if al-Qaida rises again following US withdrawal and the Ta…
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‘An explosion is coming’: Biden races to unite allies against China
The US president is being much tougher than expected on Beijing, but a lack of solidarity will undermine his p…
- Africa, Asia Pacific, Darfur, Ethiopia, Middle East and North Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Timor-Leste, World news
The light that failed: South Sudan’s ‘new dawn’ turns to utter nightmare
Nearly 400,000 have died since it won independence 10 years ago. Now violence looms again, within and beyond i…
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Catastrophe stalks Afghanistan as the US and UK dash for the exit
Little has been achieved in 20 years of war, and as the Taliban regroup, ordinary Afghans brace for an uncerta…
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Bashar al-Assad, Middle East and North Africa, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, South and Central Asia, Syria, United Nations, World news
Is Myanmar the new Syria? Rising violence threatens a repeat tragedy
As ethnic militias back the popular uprising and refugees flee the country, the similarities with Syria are de…
- Asia Pacific, Aung San Suu Kyi, China, Hong Kong, Myanmar, South and Central Asia, Uighurs, World news, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang
A child screams in Myanmar … and China pretends not to hear
The country’s global standing is plunging as Xi Jinping attempts to whitewash atrocities in the name of empire…
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Stay, go, delay: Joe Biden is trapped and has no good choices in Afghanistan
The president has inherited an unpopular war, and whatever he decides to do about it will be fraught with dang…
- China, Human rights, Joe Biden, Myanmar, Russia, South and Central Asia, US news, War crimes, World news
The world’s bad guys are winning. Is anyone going to stand up to them? | Simon Tisdall
From the coup in Myanmar to the autocratic regimes in China and Russia, western values are under increasing th…
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Amnesty specialises in hard truths. No wonder Modi froze it out of India
Forced shutdown of the human rights group will only increase international scrutiny of systemic mis-governance…
- Asia Pacific, Aung San Suu Kyi, China, Europe, Human rights, Islam, Myanmar, Refugees, Religion, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, War crimes, World news
Justice and the Rohingya people are the losers in Asia’s new cold war
Attacks against the Muslim minority in Myanmar have gone unchecked as regional players focus on their own inte…
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‘Chairman Xi’ seeks only to purge and subjugate. That is his weakness
From Tibet to Taiwan, China’s leader is intent on wielding absolute power. Instead he is fanning the flames of…
- Afghanistan, Donald Trump, Europe, Russia, South and Central Asia, US military, US news, Vladimir Putin, World news
Trump views US troops as disposable – the Russian bounty scandal makes that clear | Simon Tisdall
Time and again, the president has failed to protect military personnel. For Trump, he always comes first, no m…