A British ISIS jihadist held in a Syrian prison camp has demanded he be allowed to return to the UK for ‘rehabilitation’. Aseel Muthana, an ice cream seller, left Wales for Syria in 2013, aged 17, following his brother Nasser and another friend in joining the jihadist group. Muthana was with the group until its … Read more
A shadowy Islamic State fundraising cell seeking to free Western jihadi brides from Kurdish refugee camps in Syria has been exposed by The Mail on Sunday. Undercover reporters spent weeks communicating with a ‘fixer’ in Turkey before catching a ‘courier’ on camera in London last Friday picking up what he thought was a £4,500 donation … Read more
These incredible pictures offer a window to history that exists all around. They are the winning and shortlisted images in the Historic Photographer of the Year Awards 2020, which were unveiled today by broadcaster and historian Dan Snow and historic and cultural travel experts Trip Historic. This year’s awards called on photographers to scour their … Read more
A convicted terrorist who has refused to tell the Manchester Arena inquiry about his contact with bomber Salman Abedi is set to be released from jail this week. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after he was found guilty of helping people travel to Syria to join so-called Islamic State. While he was in … Read more
A convicted terrorist who has refused to tell the Manchester Arena inquiry about his contact with bomber Salman Abedi is set to be released from jail this week. Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after he was found guilty of helping people travel to Syria to join so-called Islamic State. While he was in … Read more
A former London schoolgirl who ran away to Syria with two friends in February 2015 to join ISIS faces beatings and being placed in isolation if she tries to contact her lawyers. Shamima Begum, who was 15 when she and two other schoolgirls flew to Syria in February 2015, is appealing against a government decision … Read more
Hong Kong, Paris and Zurich are the world’s most expensive cities, a new survey has found. Researchers looked at the prices of 138 products and services – including food, drink, clothing and household supplies in around 130 cities worldwide – to draw up the ranking of the most and least costly metropolises. Damascus, the capital … Read more
A long lost church thought to be where Jesus ‘healed the bleeding woman’, has been discovered by archaeologists buried underneath a path in an ancient Roman city. Experts from the University of Haifa believe the church was within the ancient city of Banias that had been renamed Caesarea Philippi during the lifetime of Jesus. Byzantine … Read more
‘I found the love of my life’: Andrea Riseborough reveals she fell for her Luxor co-star Karim Saleh while working on the film By Kate Dennett For Mailonline Published: 15:43 GMT, 6 November 2020 | Updated: 15:43 GMT, 6 November 2020 Andrea Riseborough has revealed she found the ‘love of her life’ while working on … Read more
Veteran foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, who famously interviewed Osama Bin Laden but cast doubt on war crimes in Syria, has died at the age of 74. The British journalist Robert Fisk, who was one of the best-known Middle East correspondents after spending his career reporting from the troubled region, died after a short illness, his employer … Read more