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The world is cruel and full of horrors. Israel understands this – and acts. It is doing a service not just for itself, but for the Iranian people and all those who care about fighting theocratic murderers, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

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The world is cruel and full of horrors. Israel understands this – and acts. It is doing a service not just for itself, but for the Iranian people and all those who care about fighting theocratic murderers, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

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June 14, 2025

Shock and awe. The words seem almost inadequate to capture the magnitude of the destruction, the scale of…

In overwhelmingly Muslim areas of Britain’s second-largest city, foreign flags fly from lamp posts and ugly sectarian politics threaten to tear the social fabric apart, as DAVID PATRIKARAKOS discovers in a devastating dispatch

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In overwhelmingly Muslim areas of Britain’s second-largest city, foreign flags fly from lamp posts and ugly sectarian politics threaten to tear the social fabric apart, as DAVID PATRIKARAKOS discovers in a devastating dispatch

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June 2, 2025

Last month, a criminal lawyer from the Perry Barr district of Birmingham was charged with money laundering offences…

Inside the human slaughterhouse: I visited the hellhole jail where 13,000 Syrians were tortured to death, and met one prisoner who survived daily beatings for TEN years, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

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Inside the human slaughterhouse: I visited the hellhole jail where 13,000 Syrians were tortured to death, and met one prisoner who survived daily beatings for TEN years, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

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February 17, 2025

Pain floods his body. It spits and crackles like electricity. Every day for three months, the guards have…

A furious blame game has erupted over the cause of the LA inferno that has killed 11 and left thousands homeless. Now, as DAVID PATRIKARAKOS reveals, a new theory has emerged – and it could spell the end for Gavin Newsom

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A furious blame game has erupted over the cause of the LA inferno that has killed 11 and left thousands homeless. Now, as DAVID PATRIKARAKOS reveals, a new theory has emerged – and it could spell the end for Gavin Newsom

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January 12, 2025

As I drive towards Pacific Palisades, the heart of the LA wildfires, ash falls like snow. The air…

I’m with the world’s oddest collection of refugees fleeing a Mad Max hellscape into LA’s five-star hotels. All the botox in the world can’t hide real fear, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

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I’m with the world’s oddest collection of refugees fleeing a Mad Max hellscape into LA’s five-star hotels. All the botox in the world can’t hide real fear, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

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January 10, 2025

The Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills is rammed. As Los Angeles is engulfed by fire, the Hollywood Hills…

Ukrainians used to spit at deserters… now they sympathise with them. With 6,000 soldiers absconding every month, brutal press gangs roam the streets seizing new ‘recruits’. DAVID PATRIKARAKOS on how battle-weariness is taking its toll

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Ukrainians used to spit at deserters… now they sympathise with them. With 6,000 soldiers absconding every month, brutal press gangs roam the streets seizing new ‘recruits’. DAVID PATRIKARAKOS on how battle-weariness is taking its toll

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December 12, 2024

It must feel strange to be hiding from your own army but that’s exactly what Yuri is doing.…

What happened inside Assad’s prisons where thousands suffered 72 types of torture and 157,000 people have vanished: As new horrors are revealed by the hour, DAVID PATRIKARAKOS beholds atrocity on staggering scale

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What happened inside Assad’s prisons where thousands suffered 72 types of torture and 157,000 people have vanished: As new horrors are revealed by the hour, DAVID PATRIKARAKOS beholds atrocity on staggering scale

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December 10, 2024

He called himself Hitler and loved to put on ‘entertainments’. To amuse his dinner guests, he would force…

DAVID PATRIKARAKOS looks at the Ukraine-Russia war 1,000 days into the conflict: The Russians are attacking like psychos, charging headlong into the meat grinder

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DAVID PATRIKARAKOS looks at the Ukraine-Russia war 1,000 days into the conflict: The Russians are attacking like psychos, charging headlong into the meat grinder

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November 19, 2024

The battle is bloodier that ever in Kursk province, Vitaliy Ovcharenko tells me. His unit, which he cannot…