
Alex Crawford
Special Correspondent at Sky News
Travelling foreign correspondent based in Istanbul. Sky News Special Correspondent. Wrote Colonel Gadaffi's Hat in ptsd haze.
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4 weeks 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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The test case which could set a legal precedent : Section 51 of ICC Act 2001 states it’s an offence ‘for a person to commit genocide, a crime against humanity, or a war crime’, even if it takes place in another country @guardian https://t.co/rryrqh8Fs0

US funding cuts have seen many great journalists suddenly without work. Gustavo Ocado Alex is one. A freelance based in Venezuela who’s worked with VOA, BBC, Miami Herald, NPR, Sky News and more…he can be contacted via @gusocandoalex on both X/Insta

Great to be in Manchester and hear about your and the achievements of others with solid @NCTJ training. Congrats @ConorWilson2 and all the other nominees at the @NCTJ_news awards. Enjoy the moon and shoot for the stars

Fantastic day yesterday surrounded by talent at the @NCTJ_news awards for excellence hosted by the incredible @AlexCrawfordSky Over the moon to be highly commended in a competitive category for my piece on police bosses fears over early prisoner release for @Daily_Express https://t.co/S0819WZEc1