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Special report: How my father's face turned up in Robert Capa's lost suitcase
04 August 2013 12:00 AM
The great war photographer was not one person but two. Their pictures of Spain's civil war, lost for decades, tell a heroic tale
Germany should honour its debt and offer NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum
21 July 2013 12:13 AM
World View: When such figures as Albert Einstein fled the Nazis, the US provided a haven. Now it’s time for Berlin to offer asylum to the persecuted
Hidden hands of old regimes did not go away
14 July 2013 12:00 AM
World View: The unholy alliances forged in the revolutionary Arab Spring uprisings are beginning to crumble
The Syrian war has killed 100,000. But what about those who are still alive?
10 July 2013 05:58 PM
In his final dispatch from Damascus, Patrick Cockburn describes how ordinary Syrians fight for survival
Faisal Mekdad: ‘The US has no control over the rebels it is arming – and if Cameron and Hague think weapons can force Assad’s departure, they are stupid’
02 July 2013 08:13 PM
Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister is certain the West’s strategy will fail
Foreign media portrayals of the conflict in Syria are dangerously inaccurate
30 June 2013 12:00 AM
World View: It is naive not to accept that both sides are capable of manipulating the facts to serve their own interests
A return to Homs: ‘The atmosphere here is poisoned by fear of a kind I have only ever seen once before’
28 June 2013 12:00 AM
Some 400,000 have fled the centre, held by rebels, and are scattered across the city
‘The mood was one of resignation’: Death comes to Straight Street in Damascus
27 June 2013 07:11 PM
Patrick Cockburn sees five lives lost in the bombing of a Christian quarter of the Syrian capital
Tal Kalakh: Syria's rebel town that forged its own peace deal
25 June 2013 06:56 PM
The town is back in the hands of Syria’s army but the move says more about local disillusion than military defeat
From amid the ruins new hope for Syrian rebels
23 June 2013 07:29 PM
The recapture of Qusayr could be a turning point
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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