Our best pieces from the past year. In this selection, we choose the best foreign affairs coverage and reports from abroad.
Migrants prepare to cast off the beach at Shimbiro, Somalia, for a perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen and beyond. Photo: Alixandra Fazina/N
From Portsmouth to Kobane: the British jihadis fighting for Isis
By Shiraz Maher.
British jihadis fighting for Isis What motivates the young men who leave Britain to join the murderous fanatics of Isis in the Middle East? Shiraz Maher spoke to dozens of them inside Syria to find out.
Life among the ruins: ten days …read more
Source: New Statesman