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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

April 2026

  • People fly flags from their vehicles on a road in Baghdad

    Iraqi leaders face balancing act as Iran conflict exposes deep rifts

    Country is torn between those who hope for end to Tehran’s influence and those loyal to Islamic republic

February 2026

  • Bombed-out buildings in the Old City of Aleppo. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt? – podcast

    Years of civil war have turned whole areas of the city into rows of empty husks. But after the fall of Assad, Syrians have returned to their old homes determined to rebuild

    By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Read by Mo Ayoub
    Podcast27:36

January 2026

  • The Syrian government has taken control of several prison camps holding IS suspects in the north-east of the country.

    The 'ticking-bomb' Syrian prisons filled with IS suspects – video explainer

    Video2:33
  • Bombed-out buildings in the Old City of Aleppo.

    The long read
    Out of the ruins: will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?

December 2025

  • Photograph: Ghaith Abdul Ahad/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning – podcast

    From October: Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried to find a way to survive

    By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Read by Mo Ayoub
    Podcast44:54

October 2025

  • Residents of Homs walk among the ruins of the city. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning – podcast

    Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried to find a way to survive

    By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Read by Mo Ayoub
    Podcast42:49

September 2025

  • Residents of Homs walk among the ruins of the city

    The long read
    ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

    Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried to find a way to survive

April 2025

  • Men post pictures of missing people in Marjeh Square in Damascus in December 2024. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its aftermath – podcast

    At 18, Mustafa was told his only way out of prison was to join the regime forces. After 14 years, his past as one of Assad’s fighters could get him killed

    By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Read by Mo Ayoub
    Podcast50:15

March 2025

  • Men post pictures of missing people in Marjeh Square in Damascus.

    The long read
    The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its aftermath

    At 18, Mustafa was told his only way out of prison was to join the regime forces. After 14 years, his past as one of Assad’s fighters could get him killed

August 2024

  • The Shatila camp in southern Beirut, Lebanon. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures – podcast

    Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.

    This week, from February: Ever since the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, many have been living in dejection and squalor in camps like Shatila in Beirut. Is this the grim future the people of Gaza could now be facing? By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
    Podcast29:56

February 2024

  • Women walking in an alleyway in the Shatilla Camp

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures – podcast

    Ever since the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, many have been living in dejection and squalor in camps like Shatila in Beirut. Is this the grim future the people of Gaza could now be facing? By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
    Podcast26:52
  • A man carries a portrait of Abu Bakr al-Saadi, a senior Kataib Hizbullah military commander who was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad, at his funeral

    Baghdad mourners gather for funeral of Iraqi militant killed in US drone strike

    US claims responsibility for killing, saying Kataib Hezbollah commander was behind attack that killed three US soldiers
  • Civil defense members gather at the site of a burned vehicle targeted by a U.S. drone strike in east Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

    Iraq labels US ‘factor of instability’ after three killed in drone attack

    Military says ‘blatant assassination’ of three members of Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia in Baghdad risks widening conflict

January 2024

  • Women walking in an alleyway in The Shatila camp in southern Beirut, Lebanon.

    The long read
    ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures

  • A person shouts slogans while weaving a Palestinian flag during a protest after US and UK airstrikes on Houthis military sites, in Sana'a, Yemen on 12 January

    Gaza doctors warn patients will die within hours after key hospital loses power – as it happened

October 2023

  • Explosions caused by Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip.

    UN general assembly calls for immediate truce – as it happened

    United Nations resolution passes with 120 votes in favour of truce. This blog is now closed
  • Safaa Ali Fayad, who was displaced from Aytaroun village, south Lebanon, waits in a classroom where she is living with her husband and three children. The school has been converted into a shelter amid fears the Israel-Hamas war will spill into Lebanon.

    Fear and defiance in Lebanon as the threat of new war opens old wounds

    In a crowded suburb of Beirut, some are praying to be spared a war with Israel spilling over from Gaza, as others prepare to join the Hezbollah ‘resistance’

    • Israel-Hamas war: second convoy of as 14 aid trucks enters Gaza – as it happened

    • US troops attacked in Iraq and Syria as west warns of ‘spillover’ from Israel conflict

    • ‘All the world is blind’: Hezbollah supporters take to Beirut’s streets

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