15.10.2025
Hunted by the Taliban
While the US and others roll back protections for Afghans, new evidence shows the scale of ongoing reprisal killings, belying the Taliban’s claim of an amnesty for former soldiers.
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The Killing Fields of Al Fashir
As the Sudanese military’s top brass secured their own safe passage out of a besieged city they left tens of thousands of civilians in the hands of a brutal militia
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Investigations
14.10.2025
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
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24.09.2025
Blair and the Billionaire
Insiders reveal how Larry Ellison’s money turned Blair’s institute into a tech sales and lobbying operation for Oracle
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16.09.2025
“They hit us and watched us drown”
French police cause dozens of drownings with violent tactics against small boats trying to reach overseas territory Mayotte. Similar tactics are being proposed for the Channel.
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12.09.2025
The Orphanage That Hid Us
How Syrian Intelligence Turned Children Into Pawns
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11.09.2025
Syria’s Stolen Children
Under the Assad regime, hundreds of Syrian children were hidden in orphanages to extort their parents. Families still have few answers from the new government or the international charity that kept it a secret for years.
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Methodologies
14.10.2025
How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World
Backlight
Podcast: Backlight
03.12.2025
How to become an undercover reporter
You’ve seen it in movies, but what does undercover reporting actually look like in real life?
Podcast: Backlight
03.11.2025
What is the role of accountability journalism in post-Assad Syria?
We speak with Syrian journalists Bashar and Mais about their first investigation in a newly free Syria.
Podcast: Backlight
30.07.2025
Who is journalism for?
This month on Backlight, we talk to journalists who are rethinking how and who they report for
Podcast: Backlight
30.06.2025
Tracking deforestation from space
Remote sensing analysis to uncover the scale of deforestation in the Philippines
Podcast: Backlight
31.05.2025
What journalists can learn from content creators
We dive into how news content creator journalists are building trust, communicating complexity, and making journalism not just informative, but engaging.
Podcast: Backlight
30.04.2025
Become a moneytrails expert
Find out what it takes to lead financial investigations with tips from Lighthouse reporters.
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