Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generati…

- Luke Harding

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

- Luke Harding

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the …

- Luke Harding

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

- Luke Harding