Julian Borger

Washington, D.C.

World Affairs Editor at The Guardian

Guardian's world affairs editor, author of The Butcher's Trail and I Seek a Kind Person, out in January. DMs open.

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Articles

Masked Israeli troops block media visit to West Bank site of Oscar-winning film

3 days ago | msn.com | Julian Borger

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Masked Israeli troops block media visit to West Bank site of Oscar-winning film

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Julian Borger

Masked Israeli soldiers have blocked an international group of reporters from visiting Palestinian villages on the West Bank which have been under sustained attack by Jewish settlers, and which were the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary film.
Second round of Ukraine-Russia talks end with PoW deal but no ceasefire

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Ruth Michaelson |Julian Borger

Negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul ended without agreement on a ceasefire on Monday, but with both sides agreeing to exchange more prisoners. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the two sides had agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, with the possibility of swapping an additional 200 PoWs. He said agreement had also been agreed to return the remains of killed service personnel, but added that this would take careful preparation.
Bosnia vive el "momento más peligroso desde 1995"

1 week ago | eldiario.es | Julian Borger

Los miembros de la unidad de élite de la policía húngara cruzaron la frontera vestidos de paisano y no se pusieron el uniforme hasta llegar a su destino. Tras llegar a Banja Luka, la capital de la entidad serbia de Bosnia y Herzegovina, posaron con su uniforme verde junto a policías serbios con pasamontañas.
‘Most dangerous moment since 1995’: renegade Dodik leaves Bosnia in limbo

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Julian Borger

The members of the elite Hungarian police unit crossed the border in civilian clothes, putting on their uniforms only once they had reached their destination. After arriving in Banja Luka, the capital of the Serbian half of Bosnia and Herzegovina, they posed in green fatigues with balaclava-wearing Serbian police. Officially, the Hungarians had come as trainers, but the mission was announced only after their presence was reported in the local press.
There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Malak A Tantesh |Julian Borger

Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment. The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised the deliberate starvation of Gaza when she appeared on the BBC this week, was only 2.5kg when she was born on 20 November last year.
New film claims to identify Israeli killer of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Julian Borger

A new US-made documentary has produced evidence pointing to the identity of an Israeli soldier who shot dead the Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, in 2022. The documentary, Who Killed Shireen?, concludes that a member of Israeli special forces unit Duvdevan (Cherry) shot Abu Akleh while she was reporting for Al Jazeera in Jenin, on the West Bank.
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

1 month ago | defenddemocracy.press | Jason Burke |Julian Borger

Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansingBy Jason Burke in Tel Aviv and Julian BorgerTue 6 May 2025An Israeli government minister has vowed that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed” as a result of an Israeli military victory, and that its Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries”, raising fears of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory.
Anti-immigrant Reform UK makes broad gains in English local elections

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Julian Borger

Britain’s anti-immigrant and Trump-aligned Reform UK party has made sweeping gains in English local elections, challenging the traditional political dominance of the country’s two main parties, Labour and the Conservatives.
'Cafodd fy nhad loches rhag y Natsïaid yng Nghaernarfon'

1 month ago | bbc.com | Julian Borger

Ffynhonnell y llun, Y Teulu BorgerDisgrifiad o’r llun, Robert Borger yn fachgen bach gyda rieni Erna a Leo yn hapus eu byd yn nechrau'r 1930auYn gynharach eleni bu Julian Borger yng Nghaernarfon i siarad am ei lyfr I Seek a Kind Person sy'n dweud hanes ei dad, Robert, a phlant eraill o Awstria a wnaeth ddianc rhag yr Holocost drwy hysbysebion papur newydd ym Mhrydain yn gofyn am help.