Honoured to win the Fetisov Journalism Awards second prize for investigative reporting, with Airwars Sanjana, for our report into the UK government's implausible claim it fought a 'perfect war' against Islamic State in Iraq -- killing thousands of militants without harming a single civilian

Airwars is thrilled to win second prize up in the Outstanding Investigative Reporting category at the Fetisov Journalism Awards for our joint investigation with The Guardian into the civilian harm the UK government refuses to recognise.

Read the investigation here:
airwars.org/investigation/…

Congratulations to the winners and finalists of our first ever CIR Open Source Film Awards at the journalism festival with Centre for Information Resilience. So much humbling talent seen on display. Livestream here: youtube.com/watch?v=RW_41w…

Let's take a look at the winners, seen in the thread below 👇

Really fascinating to hear how Nikolaj Houmann, Nazmul Ahasan and Leonardo collected data for their sigmaawards projects.

Across the board, each story was incredibly labour intensive and a lot of the data was manually gathered and analysed. #IJF24

This is a spectacular piece of reporting by Carey Baraka on one of the most awful cult massacres in recent times

economist.com/1843/2024/04/1…

Airwars is thrilled to win the 'Special Recognition Award' at the inaugural Centre for Information Resilience Open Source Film Awards for our short film 'The six-year-old victim of Britain's war in Iraq'

Tremendous Amnesty International Amnesty MENA report on the imprisonment, torture, kidnapping, and international failings of post-ISIS detention in Syria (and #Iraq ). Huge huge respect to Nicolette Waldman and all who worked on this over the years. Please read, share, rage: amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

for my The New Yorker column this week, I wrote about Byung-Chul Han, the internet's new favorite philosopher, the Sartre of looking at your phone a lot, author of the paperback manifesto your favorite artist / designer / architect is carrying in their pocket newyorker.com/culture/infini…

Alongside all the mourning there is comfort in how the Sudanese people have pooled their few resources and opened up their homes - a reminder that a country is not a place, but a spirit.

My column on one year of Sudan's war.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

You are going to hear a lot about Iranian ‘Kamikaze drones’ such as the Shahed in the coming days.

Sanjana and the rest of our team wrote a brilliant visual piece if you want to understand them and the physical and psychological toll they have

airwars.org/investigation/…

Current and former U.S. officials said it is likely that Iran will try to synchronize the drone attack with faster moving missiles, which would be launched later. The slow moving drones, the former official said, could be used to distract Israeli defenses, per Julian E. Barnes.

Live on Kimmel
youtu.be/xrTm_6VpTTo?si…