Central Nabatieh in ruins, many childhood and family memories under this rubble, my father was laid to rest there. I am lost for words, this is barbaric …

We drove around the ghost villages of southern Jezzine this week for this dispatch in The Times and The Sunday Times. Here is what's happening: a quarter of the Lebanese population has been displaced and half the country is becoming uninhabitable. thetimes.com/world/israel-h…

One painful year without you, Issam. Your colleagues produced an investigation showing the Israeli military fired at seven journalists that day, & took you from us. One year on, there has been no comment, no clarity, no transparency from the IDF on the attack that killed Issam.

Unicef spokesperson James Elder is recently back from Gaza. He tells me the humanitarian situation there is "everything that the international community ever feared, but worse somehow: no aid and more attacks on civilian areas."

Note how Treasury Department details how the "proceeds" of #captagon sales go to Maher al-#Assad (Bashar's brother), via his chief aide, Ghassan Bilal. A #captagon factory is also located in the #Damascus suburb, Sayyida Zeinab, the #IRGC's key stronghold.

I have updated the list of political science journals that publish research notes. resulumit.com/blog/polisci-r…

Last week I applied for a job with a disability services org, and an AI platform emailed a list of everything that's wrong with me as a person. Way more Australian companies are using this platform than I realised. Here's what I wrote about it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Among these 40,000 are an estimated three Australian women and four children, who successive governments have failed to bring home smh.com.au/politics/feder…

"I genuinely think Bashar Al-#Assad wakes up every morning touching his neck to check it's still attached to his shoulders, he is fully aware that these are incredibly difficult times for his regime." -Karam Shaar كرم شعّار #Syria #Hizbollah #Iran #Israel

AWADA members myself, sean turnell Lei Cheng Peter Greste have been giving evidence today to the Australian Senate enquiry into the wrongful detention of Australian citizens abroad. To watch live or catch up use the link below 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=CeWUc0…

🧵Exactly a year ago, Russian security services arrested me. In an instant, my life changed forever.

On the relationship between crises and the academic discipline of international relations. New commentary by Dr Maria Tanyag from ANUBellSchool in Australian Journal of International Affairs.. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'Urgent appeal to address the escalating humanitarian crisis in #Rukban camp due to the tightening of the siege by Maher al-Assad's Fourth Armored Division' Syrian Emergency Task Force Read the full statement ⬇️📷setf.ngo/ar/%D8%A8%D9%8…

Adding this sad announcement from Canberra Uni today to likely 600+ job losses at ANU = 800+ university colleagues losing their livelihoods & a huge impact on Canberra itself NTEU ACT canberratimes.com.au/story/8797479/…

Pleased to share my latest article on Syrian fighters. XCEPT Research eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Iran's judiciary is planning to send back to prison journalists Elahe Mohammadi and Niloufar Hamedi who helped break Mahsa Amini's story. Many Iranians are protesting and calling for an halt to the prison sentences against the two. #Journalismisnotacrime #الهه_نیلوفر_آزادی

Moral clarity from leading Israeli human rights org B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم: "The magnitude of the crimes Israel is currently committing in the northern Gaza Strip in its campaign to empty it of however many residents are left is impossible to describe, not just because hundreds of thousands

My media release: Israel’s military strikes on financial institutions in Lebanon violate international humanitarian law, which does not permit attacks on the financial infrastructure of an adversary, even if they indirectly sustain its military activities ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Huge congratulations to الدفاع المدني السوري on today’s 10yr anniversary — your heroic staff have been rescuing civilians from the rubble amid #Assad regime, #Russia & #Iran’s barrel bombs, artillery, chemical weapons & so much more in #Syria.

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