David Patrikarakos

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | David Patrikarakos

Last month, a criminal lawyer from the Perry Barr district of Birmingham was charged with money laundering offences following a National Crime Agency investigation. Akhmed Yakoob is not due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court until the middle of next month but on Wednesday he came out fighting.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | David Patrikarakos

His kofia, the flat cylindrical hat favoured by Somali Muslims, gleams white as he picks me up at the station. A flowing kameez tunic gathers in his lap beneath the steering wheel. ‘Welcome to Leicester, sharif [Sir]!’ says ‘Ahmed’ with a grin. Originally from Somalia, Ahmed – he doesn’t want me to use his real name – is a publisher, amateur historian and part-time imam. He will be my guide to the city. ‘Are you a meat person?’ he asks.

1 month ago | thisismoney.co.uk | David Patrikarakos

His kofia, the flat cylindrical hat favoured by Somali Muslims, gleams white as he picks me up at the station. A flowing kameez tunic gathers in his lap beneath the steering wheel. ‘Welcome to Leicester, sharif [Sir]!’ says ‘Ahmed’ with a grin. Originally from Somalia, Ahmed – he doesn’t want me to use his real name – is a publisher, amateur historian and part-time imam. He will be my guide to the city. ‘Are you a meat person?’ he asks.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | David Patrikarakos

India and Pakistan are lobbing hardware at each other once again. And it should terrify us all. In the wars between Israel and Islamist militants, or Ukraine and Russia -brutal and bloody as they may be - there is only one nuclear-armed belligerent. Unfair perhaps, but it precludes the possibility of total annihilation. Here, however, we have two such powers. India and Pakistan have long understood each other’s nuclear doctrine.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Rory Tingle |Tom Cotterill |David Patrikarakos

The arrests of seven Iranians in two major anti-terror operations over the weekend coincide with growing concern about the rogue state's activities on British soil. A covert war is currently being waged by UK security forces to try to prevent Iran  from targeting its enemies on our streets. The shocking scale of this threat was made clear last year by MI5 director general Ken McCallum, who said spies and police had identified 20 credible Iranian plots to kill or kidnap people in the UK since 2022.