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Tariq Tahir

Tariq Tahir

Senior Correspondent Investigations & News
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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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Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim was stabbed to death in Huddersfield in the UK. Photo: West Yorkshire Police
Burial fund for stabbed Syrian teenager hits target to take body home

Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim's mother wants him to be buried in the city of Homs

UKApril 16, 2025
Rawa Majid and his Foxtrot Network are behind escalating gang warfare in Sweden. Swedish Police / Reuters
Kurdish 'Foxtrot Network' crime boss sanctioned by the UK for attacks linked to Iran

British officials say the move is part of its wider response to Iranian hostilities across Europe

UKApril 15, 2025
Police officers from several nations took part in the operation against the gang. Photo: Europol
Police arrest Egyptian gang suspected of making €30m from people smuggling

The gang used other Egyptians to take boats from Turkey to Italy and Greece, say police

MENAApril 09, 2025
More than 81,000 millionaires live in Dubai, according to the latest figures. Chris Whiteoak / The National
Dubai's millionaires double as London drops down wealth list

New report highlights how world's wealthy are increasingly heading to investor-friendly Dubai

UAEApril 09, 2025
An ancient Egyptian artefact passed through the hands of two smugglers before it was bought by the British Museum. Alamy
ExclusiveBritish Museum's Egyptian figurine linked to smuggler caught at JFK airport

Exclusive: Scandal-plagued museum faces more embarrassment as industry's 'grandfathering' provenance tricks exposed

UKApril 09, 2025
Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim had been injured in a bombing attack in Homs. Photo: West Yorkshire Police
Teenager stabbed to death in 'safe haven' UK had fled Syrian civil war

Family of Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim say he had dreams of becoming doctor to 'heal others after all he endured'

UKApril 08, 2025
Hakan Barac arrived by small boat but has now been jailed for glorifying ISIS. South Wales Police/PA Wire
Extremist jailed for posting ISIS videos after arriving in UK

Hakan Barac, 28, was in the process of claiming asylum when he was arrested

UKApril 08, 2025
Migrants crossing the Mediterranean in flimsy fibreglass boats of the type used by the people smugglers arrested in Libya. Photo: NCA
Syrians who 'smuggled hundreds of people across Mediterranean' arrested in Libya

Two detained after Britain's National Crime Agency supplied intelligence to Libyans

UKApril 04, 2025
Amanj Hasan Zada ran an operation in the city of Preston, north-west England, disguised as a barber shop, while co-ordinating small boat crossings. Photo: NCA
UK police raid dozens of 'Turkish' barbers in money laundering crackdown

Barber shops have been used by Kurdish people smugglers such as Amanj Zada to disguise their activities

UKApril 03, 2025
Rawa Majid, left, and, right, the scene of a powerful bomb explosion in Sweden aimed at a member of his Foxtrot Network. Reuters
Kurdish 'Foxtrot' gangster flees Turkey to avoid extradition to Sweden

Rawa Majid had been living in Turkey in a bid to avoid facing drugs charges in Sweden

MENAMarch 27, 2025
Migrants climb into the back of a lorry bound for Britain while traffic is stopped at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France. AFP
UK border operations in France under strain as stowaway detections fall

Criminals are looking to exploit weaknesses in a stretched Border Force, report finds

EuropeMarch 26, 2025
Fighters linked to the Popular Mobilisation Forces carry images of a comrade killed in US air strikes in western Iraq. EPA
Kurds gain asylum in UK over threat from Iraqi Shiite militia

The two men, whose claims had originally been rejected, say they feared being harmed by Popular Mobilisation Forces if they were returned home

MENAMarch 25, 2025
Passengers arriving at Heathrow in London after the airport reopened. PA Wire
Passengers vent frustration after being stranded by Heathrow fire closure

Airport’s closure left many travellers thousands of miles from home

UKMarch 22, 2025
German police raid a storage facility where the gang's boats were stored. Photo: Europol
Iraqi man arrested as police swoop on English Channel people smuggling gang

The 25-year-old was allegedly part of a network that moved boats in vehicles with hidden compartments

EuropeMarch 21, 2025
The Iraqi Kurdistan town of Ranya is a hub for people smuggling, in which thousands of people try to cross the English Channel in small boats. The National / AFP
WatchKurdish smugglers bringing death to shores of Europe

Trafficking mastermind goes into hiding after crackdown

MENAMarch 19, 2025
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