Alex Crawford

London

Special Correspondent at Sky News

Travelling foreign correspondent based in Istanbul. Sky News Special Correspondent. Wrote Colonel Gadaffi's Hat in ptsd haze.

Articles

The story behind Israel's arrest of a Gaza paramedic

1 week ago | news.sky.com | Michelle Simon |Alex Crawford

The story behind Israel's arrest of a Gaza paramedic New audio obtained by Sky News reveals information about the IDF's activity during the arrest of a Palestinian paramedic after a deadly attack on aid workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. By Michelle Inez Simon, visual investigations producer, and Alex Crawford, special correspondent Saturday 3 May 2025 18:07, UK
The story behind Israel's arrest of a Gaza paramedic

1 week ago | news.sky.com | Michelle Simon |Alex Crawford

The story behind Israel's arrest of a Gaza paramedic New audio obtained by Sky News reveals information about the IDF's activity during the arrest of a Palestinian paramedic after a deadly attack on aid workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. By Michelle Inez Simon, visual investigations producer, and Alex Crawford, special correspondent Saturday 3 May 2025 08:49, UK
ISIS and the Yazidis: The women they tried to erase

2 weeks ago | news.sky.com | Alex Crawford

From the start this was different. Each war has its own fingerprint, its own bloody DNA of violence, brutality and horror. But the persecution of the Yazidis, including the buying and selling of women and girls, is a particular horror that has influenced my reporting, and recognition of similar evils, ever since. Alex Crawford, Sky News special correspondentBy Alex Crawford, Sky News special correspondentWar has become my business.
Two hours of terror: Sky News investigation reveals how Israel's deadly attack on aid workers unfolded

3 weeks ago | news.sky.com | Alex Crawford |Mark Austin

A quadcopter buzzed overhead, blaring the voice of an Israeli official. It directed aid workers to a mound of sand on the eastern side of the road. This, the voice indicated, is where they would find their missing colleagues. It had been a week since Israeli soldiers killed them and buried their bodies in a mass grave. Image: Search team at the site of the mass grave in Tel Sultan, Rafah, 30 March. Pic: Planet Labs PBC Access to the site had only been granted once before, three days earlier.
Yazidi women still enslaved in ISIS detention camps, Sky News documentary reveals

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Alex Crawford

Yazidi women are still enslaved in ISIS detention camps, a new Sky News documentary has revealed. In 10 Years of Darkness: ISIS & The Yazidis, Sky News's special correspondent Alex Crawford delivers an in-depth portrait of a community that has faced unimaginable violence.
Turkey protesters met with tear gas and rubber bullets at rallies after president's main rival jailed

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Alex Crawford

Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled Istanbul's streets on Sunday for a fifth night of protest against the arrest of the Turkish president's main rival. Police used pepper spray and fired rubber bullets into the crowd that gathered outside Istanbul's city hall. Reporting from Istanbul on Sunday evening, Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford described the protests as "relatively peaceful" but said they were "the biggest protests Turkey has seen in more than a decade".
'We will behead you': Children in Syria camp vow ISIS will return

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Alex Crawford

The Kurdish armoured vehicle we're in is being peppered by stones and rocks. But this a good day. The soldiers we're with face far worse. Knifings and bombings feature regularly from the ISIS families detained in sprawling detention camps in northeast Syria. The Kurdish troops have guarded these camps packed with ISIS wives and relatives for more than six years.
Jihadis in limbo: The ticking time bomb of Syria's forgotten ISIS prisons

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Alex Crawford

Jihadis in limbo: The ticking time bomb of Syria's forgotten ISIS prisonsBy Alex Crawford, special correspondentThey're the men no country wants. Locked up and accused of being Islamic State fighters, they're considered a threat to the West and the prospect of peace in the new Syria. "I travelled to Syria to make jihad. I won't lie," Londoner Hamza Parvez says through his cell grate.
Walmart yodeling kid Mason Ramsey is coming to Pittsburgh

Oct 8, 2024 | pghcitypaper.com | Kate Oczypok |Alex Crawford

Six years ago, a two-minute video of Mason Ramsey was posted to YouTube that changed the trajectory of his life. He was just 11 years old, seen on camera singing “Lovesick Blues” by Hank Williams at a Walmart in his native Illinois. In just days, the clip went viral, garnering over 25 million views and cementing Ramsey into internet meme status. Williams’ song even briefly went back into the top of music charts.
'The doctor told me count to three - and he cut my leg': The generation of Palestinian children with devastating amputations after a year of war

Oct 6, 2024 | news.sky.com | Alex Crawford

A generation of children and young adults in Gaza are coping with devastating amputations after a year of brutal war. It's left a terrible legacy, with thousands - many of them babies - coping with missing limbs. Warning: This story contains images and descriptions readers may find distressingThose in Gaza like Jihad have absolutely heart-breaking war wounds. The three-year-old's left leg has been amputated right up to the hip, his right leg cut below the knee.