Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News' International Editor.
Recently she has reported on the war in Ukraine, and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
She has reported from six continents, covering the major conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades, including Syria, Iraq, Kosovo and Rwanda, winning many awards.
She is the author of Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution and In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, which won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for biography.
She is a regular contributor to newspapers and literary journals.
Well the British and American governments both unveiled new packages of sanctions against Iran today, as G7 foreign ministers met in person to agree further action.
What’s happening between Israel, Iran and Hamas may be vexing the international community, but for a full year now another war has been creating what the UN Secretary General today described as a ‘nightmare of hunger and displacement’. The Sudanese civil war is only a year old today but it has already displaced over 8…
Tensions between the two countries have been growing for years.
The UK is almost doubling its aid to Sudan, to £89 million, as the humanitarian crisis there continues to escalate.
Germany called it a pseudo election while the United States claimed it was “obviously not free nor fair”.
A top aide to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is recovering from a hammer attack outside his home in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
Israel’s response to the October the 7th attack has involved a huge surge in the number of Palestinians being detained – seven-thousand in the West Bank alone, according to authorities there, with an unknown number of Gazans also in custody.
Last week, President Biden said he was hoping for a Gaza ceasefire deal by today – but this morning Israeli missiles rained down on Rafah once again, as talks between Israel and Hamas seemingly hit an impasse.
The UN now says at least 10 children have starved to death.
In Gaza, health ministry numbers show the death toll has now passed thirty thousand. And growing desperation has led to even more tragedy near Gaza City. Palestinian health officials say Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd waiting for food aid, killing 112 people and injuring 760 others. It happened at around 4am local time…
One of the most well established, largest and best armed of the Iran-backed militias is Hezbollah which operates in Lebanon.
Israel and Hamas have both downplayed the US President’s suggestion that a Gaza ceasefire could be nailed down by next week.
The Israeli air force has launched strikes on Lebanon – targeting areas deep inside the country’s borders after Hezbollah earlier took down an Israeli drone.
Nearly eight million people have been displaced, making it the largest crisis of its kind in the world.
Yulia Navalnaya says she knows exactly why her husband was killed on Friday but while she’s not yet revealing the reason, she places the blame squarely at Vladimir Putin’s feet. In the meantime she’s been addressing European leaders, recording videos and vowing to fight on for what she calls a Free Russia.