Macer Gifford left his high-flying city job in 2014 to join the fight against Islamic State in Syria. Now, as peace talks get underway, he wants his comrades in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) at the negotiating table in Geneva. Arriving back in the UK just weeks after participating in the battle to free Raqqa, […]
Read moreWhy has a Cold War-era Soviet submarine surfaced in England’s River Medway? (VIDEO)
Kent seems an unlikely place to encounter a 1,950 tonne Soviet war machine. But don’t be alarmed if you happen to spot U-475 ‘Black Widow’ looming out of the river as you cross the Medway – the Cold War hasn’t resumed and the Soviets aren’t about to annex Strood. Built in 1967, Black Widow saw […]
Read moreBalfour at 100: Should Britain celebrate or apologize for its colonial legacy in Palestine? (VIDEO)
November 2 marks 100 years since the Balfour Declaration – the colonial-era document that paved the way for the creation of Israel. But is the centenary a cause for celebration, or is it high time for an apology? In November 1917, at the height of the First World War, Britain’s then-Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued […]
Read moreKirkuk to Dunkirk: Kurdish journalist fights to stay in UK after fleeing assassins (RT EXCLUSIVE)
A Kurdish journalist is fighting for UK asylum after serving with American forces in Iraq, narrowly escaping assassination for his reporting, being labeled a torturer by US immigration, and entering Britain illegally smuggled inside a lorry, RT has found. Aram Fareeq Abduljabbar, 32, arrived at the Grande-Synthe refugee camp in Dunkirk, northern France, on January […]
Read moreChild refugees still arrive in Calais & Dunkirk as UK scraps resettlement of 3,000 (VIDEO EXCLUSIVE)
Five months after the Calais ‘Jungle’ was bulldozed by French authorities, migrants and refugees are still arriving, hoping to reach the UK. In response, Britain has scrapped the Dubs Amendment, allowing for the resettlement of 3,000 unaccompanied minors. Up to 10,000 camp residents were dispersed across France after the Jungle was cleared in October 2016. Many of […]
Read moreBritish banker turned Kurdish fighter launches Syrian aid charity (VIDEO EXCLUSIVE)
Former London currency trader and Conservative Party Councilor Macer Gifford left his high-flying City career in December 2014 to join the fight against Islamic State. Now he’s returning to Syria, this time at the helm of his own aid organization. Although hundreds of Westerners have traveled to Iraq and Syria to join jihadist ranks in […]
Read moreEx-soldier prevented from fighting ISIS & arrested on terrorism charges speaks to RT (EXCLUSIVE)
Robert Clark, the British ex-serviceman who was prevented from traveling to Iraq to fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), has spoken out for the first time since being sentenced under the Terrorism Act last week. Speaking exclusively to RT, Clark says IS sympathizers have sent him “threats” and “hatred” via Facebook since his story went public last year. […]
Read moreBattle for Mosul: Beating ISIS won’t end Iraq’s civil war, UK experts tell RT (VIDEO)
Caught in the crossfire, driven to hunger, held as human shields – civilians trapped in Mosul face a living nightmare, as coalition forces attempt to topple the last urban stronghold of ISIS in Iraq, while meting out sectarian punishments of their own. The battle to retake Mosul, captured by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in […]
Read moreEXCLUSIVE: Iraqi Christian who fled ISIS ‘slow-motion genocide’ fights UK deportation (VIDEO)
When Islamic State seized Mosul in summer 2014, the Iraqi city’s Syriac Orthodox Christians were given an ultimatum: convert to the jihadists’ extreme Salafist Islam, pay the jizya religious tax, or die. Two years on, those who fled are still not safe. Sarmad Ozan, a 25-year-old engineering graduate who was deacon of his church in […]
Read moreChilcot’s forgotten witnesses – Britain’s Iraqi diaspora (VIDEO)
The 2003 Iraq invasion and occupation left at least 500,000 dead, scattered refugees to the wind and threw the region into chaos. Yet as Sir John Chilcot delivers his long-delayed Iraq Inquiry report, the silence of Iraqis themselves is deafening. “If the United Nations said themselves Iraq can’t import enriched baby powder milk, ambulances and […]
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