Carlotta Gall

The Cover-Up: Inside the Plot to Conceal Assad’s Crimes

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/w...

This was a marathon investigation. More than 2 years for me, but more than a decade for my colleague, Saad Alnassife, who saw the instruments of torture and personally knew some of the victims.

War Crimes Indictment Reveals a Hard Road to Justice for Syria

Updated and open for comments: War Crimes Indictment Reveals a Hard Road to Justice for Syria www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...

Grim reading

How Pokrovsk is imperceptibly falling: five observations by Ukrainska Pravda Ukrainska Pravda explains why the defence of Pokrovsk is collapsing and what this means

⁉️ How Pokrovsk is imperceptibly falling: five observations by Ukrainska Pravda

Rare Earths in Ukraine? No, Only Scorched Earth. President Trump’s fixation on extracting elements from the war-torn nation is an illusion.

Darkly funny by @javierblas.bsky.social on Trump's demand for $500bn in rare-earth minerals from Ukraine, which don't actually exist in Ukraine—or anywhere else. "At best, the value of the world's rare-earth production rounds to $15bn a year—emphasis on 'a year.'" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Steve Bannon makes a Nazi salute at the end of his speech at CPAC

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

Bucha, Site of Massacre, Feels Sting of Trump Shift on Ukraine Residents of a Ukrainian suburb that was the site of notorious attacks on civilians after Russia invaded are alarmed by President Trump’s warm words for Moscow.

Bucha Has a Question: Does Trump Remember the Russian Massacre? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

Bucha, Site of Massacre, Feels Sting of Trump Shift on Ukraine Residents of a Ukrainian suburb that was the site of notorious attacks on civilians after Russia invaded are alarmed by President Trump’s warm words for Moscow.

Bucha Has a Question: Does Trump Remember the Russian Massacre? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...