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Tariq Tahir

Tariq Tahir

Senior Correspondent Investigations & News
London
Tariq Tahir joined The National as a senior reporter covering investigations in May 2023. Previously he has worked as a senior foreign news reporter for The Sun, senior reporter for Metro, senior reporter for the Evening Standard and Political Correspondent for The Press Association. He has also worked freelance for UK national titles including The Times and Telegraph.
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Stephen Cottrell spoke about his visit to the Holy Land during his Christmas Day sermon. Getty Images
Archbishop of York was 'intimidated' by Israeli militias

Stephen Cottrell says he was stopped at checkpoints and told he could not visit families facing persecution

UKDecember 26, 2025
King Charles III recording his Christmas message in Westminster Abbey, London. Getty Images
King Charles highlights common bond of world's faiths in Christmas message

British monarch says values shared by all religions give him hope for the future

UKDecember 25, 2025
Pope Leo XIV leads Christmas Mass at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. AFP
Pope Leo condemns conditions facing Gazans in Christmas message

Pontiff spreads message of hope for Palestinians displaced by war, living in tents in miserable weather

MENADecember 25, 2025
The Algerian flag flies outside the National Assembly as members passed a bill seeking to criminalise France's colonisation. AP
Algeria demands an apology and reparations from France for its 'crime' of colonisation

The country's Parliament passed legislation condemning French control, which lasted 132 years

MENADecember 25, 2025
Rawa Majid founded the Foxtrot crime network in Sweden
Iran sanctuary for Foxtrot crime boss angers critics of 'silent Sweden'

Rawa Majid fled arrest warrants to avoid charges relating to gang violence

EuropeDecember 25, 2025
Sudanese human rights activist Munib Abdelaziz has been arrested by the government. Photo: handout
Sudan's civilian anti-war activists detained in crackdown

Military-led government has boosted arrests after opposition meeting

MENADecember 24, 2025
Left: A teenage criminal who was part of the Foxtrot network. Right: Rawa Majid. The National / Swedish Police
How I survived Europe's deadliest Kurdish gangs

Teenage gunman tells The National about life inside Foxtrot criminal network

EuropeDecember 24, 2025
Leicestershire Police officers Hafsah Abba-Gana and Seher Nas wearing the Blue Light Hijab. Leicestershire Police
UK police introduce ‘Blue Light Hijab’ with magnetic release to protect officers

Design allows it to fall off if pulled in a confrontation to prevent risk of strangulation

UKDecember 23, 2025
Climate activist Greta Thunberg being detained by City of London Police officers during a protest in support of the Palestine Action protesters on hunger strike in prison. PA
Greta Thunberg arrested at UK protest supporting Palestine Action hunger strikers

Swedish activist detained in central London after protesters glue themselves to pavement outside insurance firm office

UKDecember 23, 2025
Tulun Tas says her son Emirhan, who was shot dead outside the family home in Sweden, loved Lego. The National
‘Foxtrot is so big the Swedish people are scared’

Tulun Tas on quest to find justice for her son Emirhan, whose murder remains unsolved

EuropeDecember 23, 2025
Illustration for Tariq Tahir's investigation into the Foxtrot Kurdish criminal network operating in Sweden. Nick Donaldson / The National
Special investigationSweden's gang crisis: the Kurdish Fox, teenage hitmen and a trail of violence

From Stockholm's suburbs to Iran, a Kurdish criminal network recruits minors to sell drugs and kill rivals, ruining lives and decimating families in their wake

NewsDecember 23, 2025
Teuta Hoxha has gone without food for 43 days
Family worried Palestine Action hunger striker Teuta Hoxha is close to death

Activist, 29, is awaiting trial accused of offences including alleged criminal damage

UKDecember 22, 2025
People who set out from France are taken ashore at the port of Dover in Kent, southern England. PA Wire
December day record for small boat arrivals adds pressure on UK government

'Smash the gangs' policy has been ineffective, as 2025 is second highest year for illegal crossings of Channel

UKDecember 22, 2025
British couple Lindsay and Craig Foreman were detained in the city of Kerman. PA
Call for UK government intervention in Iran espionage case

Lindsay and Craig Foreman were arrested while on motorcycle trip around the world

UKDecember 22, 2025
People playing football in the street in Luton, one of the UK towns undergoing rapid change as a result of migration. Getty Images
Call for emergency UK census to include new Sunni and Shiite categories

Policy Exchange group claims study of migration effects would identify hotspots of demographic changes and potential risk of extremism

UKDecember 16, 2025
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