投稿者: Peter Beaumont
Al-Qaida offshoot has lost 95% of the territory it gained in 2014 but remains a force to be reckoned with online Following police claims that the two men accused of the deadly antisemitic Bondi beach attack, Naveed and Sajid Akram, may have been inspir…
India claims to have attacked camps associated with a militant group in Pakistan – but what is its relationship with Islamabad?Kashmir crisis live – latest updatesAs India launches missile strikes on what it says are camps associated with militant grou…
Countries have fought three wars over Himalayan region, which is divided by heavily armed borderControl of Kashmir, in the foothills of the Himalayas, has been disputed since India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain in 1947.Both claim it in …
Kashmir, where 26 people were killed on Tuesday, is claimed in full by the arch-rivals India and Pakistan Countries move closer to conflict after tourist attackTensions between the arch-rivals India and Pakistan have escalated rapidly after the massacr…
Kristin Harila completes ascents of highest mountains amid controversy over modern climbers’ use of helicoptersA Norwegian woman claims to have completed the fastest ascent of all of the world’s 14 highest mountains, completing the round in three month…
Previously unseen genomic samples suggest animals at Huanan market were potential sourceNewly released data from early in the Covid-19 pandemic has offered a crucial insight into the outbreak’s origins, suggesting that Covid-infected animals were prese…
Moscow’s growing need for armaments from Pyongyang is likely to lead to greater alignment of diplomatic and military interests Russian arms procurement from Iran and North Korea heralds an increasing convergence of military and diplomatic interests bet…
Russia digs in in preparation for expected attempt by Ukraine to take key southern city, setting scene for possible ferocious battleRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesVladimir Putin has warned that civilians still living in the Ukrainian province …
Li Jingwei still recalled key features of his home village 30 years later and made successful appeal for help Thirty years ago, when Li Jingwei was four years old, a neighbour abducted him from his home village in China’s Yunnan province and sold him t…
Health experts issue dire warning as staff go unpaid and medical facilities lack basic items to treat patientsLarge parts of Afghanistan’s health system are on the brink of collapse because of western sanctions against the Taliban, international expert…
‘Fahim’ was cleared to leave Kabul. Then the phone went dead. Now he moves house every two days to evade captureWhistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuationWhistleblower’s main accusationsFresh questions about Dominic Raab’s roleFahim, a…
The career of the Observer’s former China correspondent who died last week, was marked by a willingness to review his convictionsJonathan Mirsky, the Observer’s former China correspondent who has died aged 88, was acutely aware of the mounting danger f…
Joe Biden has introduced a vaccine mandate affecting millions, but some countries have gone furtherCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFollowing the decision by the US president, Joe Biden, to introduce a vaccine mandate for mil…
One incident caught on video appears to be killing of man in uniformThe Taliban have been accused of killing 20 civilians in Afghanistan’s Panjshir valley, with the apparent killing of a man in uniform being caught on video.The Panjshir valley was the …
Human rights official says group conducting house-to-house searches and threatening journalistsThe Taliban’s violent crackdown on protests against their hardline rule has already led to four documented deaths, according to a UN human rights official wh…