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The mood was charged but the tone polite, as a millennial HTS technocrat asked civil servants exactly what their jobs entailed. A privilege to witness the untangling of the kleptocratic Baathist state with one of its keenest observers Sarah Dadouch | سارة دعدوش on.ft.com/3ZLNFEL

Did a double take: The UK government confirmed that Keir Starmer didn't even mention the issue of a detained British national in Egypt when he met Sisi last month? Is he serious? What exactly is more important?

A reminder to foreign journalists descending on Damascus: prisoners are human beings who deserve dignity and should not be treated recklessly or used as pathways for clicks. Please treat people with the dignity that they’ve been deprived of for decades.

Assad’s own ‘Downfall’ moment: “Hours before he escaped for Moscow, Assad assured a meeting of about 30 army and security chiefs at the defence ministry on Saturday that Russian military support was on its way and urged ground forces to hold out.” reuters.com/world/middle-e…

People will be writing about the crimes committed in Assad's prisons for generations, and still they will never be able to convey the damage done or the horror inflicted. Here's our story from Damascus about some of its victims & survivors. 📷 by John Beck thetimes.com/world/middle-e…

"Cecilia was in Iran, with a valid visa, to cover a country she knows and loves — a country where information is stifled through repression, threats, intimidation, violence, and detentions, often targeting journalists themselves."

She “went to see” the wall but has somehow never looked at a map?

CNN: Imprisoned Egyptian-British activist’s mother marks 100 days of hunger strike cnn.com/2025/01/07/mid…

For decades, the screams from the basement prison in the Homs security directorate were audible in Taha Tadmori's third-floor apartment next door. Knocks on the door came every two months. Then in 2013 his brother was taken there. My piece w.Obaida Hamad: theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

There is a ceasefire deal, so I want to share this story from my past year reporting inside the State Dept. trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza? 1/

A heartbreaking update from Alaa’s younger sister, Sanaa who went to visit Alaa in prison in Egypt yesterday on day 120 of their mother, Laila’s hungerstrike, to tell him that Laila’s health is deterioriating. “I saw Alaa today. I went to the prison carrying two plastic chairs

Trump's aid freeze meant *water* shipments stopped. So Rubio's Department of State issued a new waiver expanding “life-saving humanitarian assistance.” Much work and delieveries had stopped, it's unclear how much aid organizations understand or have been told since this wasn't made public

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

I dug in to Musk's dismantling of USAid because it shows his playbook for capturing the whole federal government. What surprised me was his direct involvement in the operation. For example, he demanded suspension of 57 career officers by phone last Monday. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…

The U.K. government doesn't want you to encrypt your iCloud data, which means you should definitely turn on Advanced Data Protection under Settings and iCloud. freedom.press/issues/secret-…

NEW: The Trump administration promised to take months to carefully review all foreign aid. But less than four weeks later, they cancelled 10,000 programs at once — including those they had already deemed to be critical, lifesaving operations. 1/

Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate threatened with deportation over claims he poses a risk to US foreign policy, "is a former British government employee who was vetted and well liked," according to a former British diplomat. My piece for Guardian US: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

“DER SPIEGEL reporters were also able to find several passwords for Waltz’s email address in leaked databases.” spiegel.de/international/…

"What is the purpose of a government that disappears its people?" thenation.com/article/activi…

On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about a family that lost 15 women and children, and the legal questions these attacks raise newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…