Diana Magnay

The coordinates came through last minute. The instruction was to get there fast. People organising demonstrations, blocking motorways and major intersections, did not want police getting wind of their plans. The one we found ourselves at, near the…

The spectacle of Israel's Itamar Ben-Gvir humiliating perhaps the most popular of all Palestinians in his prison cell was as unedifying as the national security minister's extremist politics. "You won't win. Whoever messes with the people of Israel,…

Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced that work will start on a divisive, 3,000-home settlement that will cut off the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem.His office said the plans would "bury" the idea of a Palestinian…

The targeted killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif and four other colleagues by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) late on Sunday silences more crucial reporting voices from inside Gaza. The IDF wasted no time in releasing a statement claiming…

As if life in Gaza wasn't hard enough, there is now a heatwave - compounding the problems of minimal water, food and the basics you need to keep a family alive. To keep your children halfway clean, when you've been displaced over and over again,…

The north used to be the breadbasket of the Gaza Strip. Strawberry fields in Beit Lahia, olive and citrus groves, wheat fields, and the agricultural university in Beit Hanoun. It seems impossible even to imagine that now. Follow Gaza latest We flew…

A bulldozer tears huge chunks out of buildings in an emptied-out Palestinian neighbourhood. It is not clearing rubble, this is a demolition project - methodical and devastating. It is part of Operation Iron Wall, a massive Israeli military assault in…

"Coffee, coffee!" the young boy yells. He balances a tray of steaming drinks he's trying to sell in the bombed-out devastation of the Jabalia refugee camp. Someone else has set up a kebab shop. Down the road, a teen is getting his hair cut in a…

"Hats off! No bags! No drinks, no food, no water, no nothing. Everything out of your pockets. Come on - let's go, let's go let's go!" Security's tough at the front of the line. There is a real sense of urgency. It is bitterly cold outside…

Syrian and Russian forces unleashed all they could on eastern Aleppo. For four years they battled to bring Syria's second city under Bashar al Assad's full control. By December 2016 when the regime finally ceased fire after a devastating siege and…

The gutted carcasses of millions of homes, the signature of horrific firepower, Russian air strikes and Assad's barrel bombs, flung at civilian life. Eleven million people fled their homes during Syria's 13-year civil war, leaving rubble and dust…

Now Bashar al Assad has gone, there is so much to see and film in Syria which was impossible to document before. The extent, for example, of the regime's involvement in the captagon trade, a speed-like amphetamine which flooded out of Syria and…

Along a narrow street flanked by bombed-out residential buildings, a group of children are showing off some gruesome finds. "There was a shoe sticking out, and one of my friends said 'that's a nice shoe'," 10-year-old Yousef tells me. "So he pulled…

How quick it is to remove the traces of a murder, a brazen assassination at that. Not 12 hours since UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was gunned down in midtown Manhattan and pressure washers were hosing down what was left of the crime…

It is hard to grasp that Alexei Navalny is gone. Navalny was a colossus of a man, whose energy, irreverence and astonishing determination touched a chord with so many in Russia who opposed Vladimir Putin's rule and who dreamed their country might be…

Thousands of people have gathered for the funeral of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny following his death in a penal colony last month.Navalny's mother Lyudmila Navalnaya, who fought hard to be allowed to hold a public funeral for her son,…

Oleg Orlov says a court process in Moscow combined "absurdity and tyranny dressed up as formal adherence to some pseudo-legal procedures". Oleg Orlov has spent his life documenting repression. He is co-chair of Russia's oldest human rights group,…

On the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, our Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay speaks to Russians on the streets of the capital to get their thoughts. Two years since Russia invaded Ukraine and in Moscow's Victory Park, those we spoke to…

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian-UK dual national, is finishing the first year of a 25-year sentence on treason charges. This is a glimpse of what remains of Russia's opposition through the stuffy, bureaucratic prism of a Moscow courtroom. The…

Alexei Navalny lived and died fighting against Vladimir Putin's regime and the corruption at its heart. Barred in 2018 from running in elections, he remained Mr Putin's most powerful political opponent. He was the one man capable of bringing tens of…