Muzzled Media

From an office tower in Ankara, Turkish bureaucrats shape the nation's news, insiders say - always to President Tayyip Erdogan's advantage.

A Shi‘ite Divide

Once a partner of Tehran, Muqtada al-Sadr has rebelled against Iranian influence in Iraq. Tensions between Shi’ite camps have stalled Iraq’s government and, some fear, could spark violence.

SkewTube

Video sites BitChute and Odysee serve up extremism to millions of viewers in a warped reality where COVID and mass shootings are fake, and Trump won in 2020.

Deadly Trade

When Russia invaded Ukraine, the West announced tough new sanctions and tech companies said they had halted all exports to Russia. Yet supplies of Western computer parts continued.

Planned Purge

War crimes investigators have dug up new evidence of the planning around the expulsion of the Rohingya. They shared their vast document cache with Reuters.