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Gareth Browne

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People enjoy a lunchtime drink in the sunshine outside the Anglesea Arms, which is acting as a polling station in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London on May 3, 2018, as local council elections take place across the capital.
The Socialist Republic of Kensington?

Britain's resurgent leftists hope Thursday's local elections bring unprecedented success in London's richest boroughs

EuropeMay 03, 2018
ISIS have adapted into a covert threat despite losing most of their territory in the Middle East
ISIS WhatsApp messages show desperation to escape

The messages show ISIS members communicating with family in Germany, and discussing smuggling routes to Europe

May 03, 2018
Notes from the notebook of an ISIS fighter found in Raqqa.
Exclusive: Notebook found in Raqqa prison reveals ISIS's thirst for blood

‘Blueprint’ lays out plans for ensuring the group’s long-term survival and offers insights into how the group intends to wage insurgencies

May 03, 2018
Gavin Williamson, UK, Secretary of State for Defence has acknowledged a civilian casualty for the first time in the near four-year campaign against ISIS.
UK admits to first civilian death in fight against ISIS

Though critics say the UK airstrikes are responsible for far more civillian deaths

EuropeMay 02, 2018
Iraqi Shiite Hezbollah Brigade militiamen fire weapons against ISIS militants in Husaybah, east of Ramadi.
Qatar ransom boosts Iran-backed 'terror' group in Iraq elections

The payment of $25 million was equivalent to half of the group's annual payment from Iran

May 01, 2018
Members of Islamist Syrian rebel group the Nusra Front carry their weapons as they move through a hole in a wall near Aleppo international airport on January 28. Ammar Abdullah / Reuters
How extremists grew stronger from Qatar hostage cash

Hayat Tahrir Al Sham has become stronger from lucrative cash flows and breathing space in Syria

April 30, 2018
Saudi born cleric Abdullah Al Muhaysini
Senior Al Qaeda-linked cleric in Syria injured in assassination attempt

Sources told The National Abdullah Al Muhaysini was being injured after a device exploded under his car

April 27, 2018
The Russian delegation at the OCPW claimed there was no chemical weapons attack on Douma in early April by their Syrian allies. AFP PHOTO
Russia slammed for ‘obscene masquerade’ at OPCW

The Russian government flew in 17 witnesses of the chemical attack in Douma earlier this month

April 26, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks at the opening of a two-day conference on combating the financing of terror groups on April 26, 2018 at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Eric Feferberg / AFP
Macron threatens to name countries that fail to stop terror funding

French president's warning came at the end of a two-day conference on stemming the financing of terrorism

EuropeApril 26, 2018
An army jacket, a picture of the Virgin Mary and a Syrian flag with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad are seen in a room in Damascus, Syria April 22, 2018. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
Syria's Assad exploits minority fears

“It’s like the arsonist posing as the firefighter”

April 25, 2018
Reverend Andrew Ashdown, left, and Michael Langrish, Former Bishop of Exeter, sit alongside the Grand Mufti of Syria who is believed to be responsible for authorising the executions of thousands of Syrian prisoners. Gareth Browne / The National
Inside the propaganda trips that seek to legitimise Assad

A week in the weird world of the pro-regime tours busing westerners into Syrian cities

April 24, 2018
More than 20,000 families have returned to Syria’s Homs in the past two years. Gareth Browne / The National
An eerie silence prevails in Assad's 'reconstructed' Homs

Anti-government slogans have been whitewashed from walls, replaced by portraits of President Bashar Al Assad

April 17, 2018
Customers smoke shisha at a coffee shop at the Hamidiyeh market in the old city of Damascus on April 15, 2018, a day after a barrage of missiles fired by the US, Britain and France struck at President Bashar Al Assad's chemical weapons facilities. AP
There's only one winner from missile strikes in Damascus

From MPs to street sweepers, Assad emerged stronger is the consensus view

April 16, 2018
Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens. Courtesy Atlantic Books
My favourite reads: Gareth Browne

I don’t have five favourite books, but these are five of the reads that have had an impact on me. The list is ever-changing and time is a bias – I revisit things I forgot I enjoyed, and sometimes question reads that once had pride of place.

April 15, 2018
Bertie Ahern, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, Seamus Mallon, David Trimble and Gerry Adams pose for a group photograph to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, in Belfast.
Architects of Good Friday Agreement mark 20th anniversary with a warning

Ex-US President Bill Clinton warned Northern Ireland of returning the the 'hell' of The Troubles

EuropeApril 10, 2018
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