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Anne Barrowclough has been at The Australian since 2014. Previous to joining The Australian she was Southeast Asia Editor for The London Times, after having worked for The Times for 15 years as feature writer, Features Editor and News Editor. She has covered geopolitics in the Southeast Asia and Pacific arenas and investigated organised crime in Europe and Africa.

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TOPSHOT - Palestinian Hamas militants secure the area as Egyptian workers accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) search for the remains of the last Israeli hostage in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 8, 2025. Qatar and Egypt, guarantors of the Gaza ceasefire, called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the deployment of an international stabilisation force as the necessary next steps in fully implementing the fragile agreement. The measures were spelt out in the US- and UN-backed peace plan that has largely halted fighting, though the warring parties have yet to agree on how to move forward from the deal's first phase. Its initial steps saw Israeli troops pull back behind a so-called

Hamas commander killed as Gaza slides toward civil war

An Israeli-backed militia in Gaza has claimed it has murdered a senior member of Hamas’s security forces, amid broadening tensions between the militants and rival clans.

Anne Barrowclough

Bondi MassacreWorld

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not pictured) in Jerusalem on December 7, 2025. (Photo by Ariel Schalit / POOL / AFP)

Israeli, US leaders denounce Albanese’s ‘weak’ response to anti-Semitism

Leaders from Washington to Jerusalem are expressing anger and disappointment at the massacre in Bondi, warning that Australia’s Palestine policy unleashed a deadly wave of anti-Semitism.

Joe Kelly and Anne Barrowclough

hostage footageWorld

The Israeli army releases the full sequence showing the six hostages lighting candles for Hanukkah 2023, filmed shortly before their assassination . Picture: Tsahal

‘It’s like the holocaust here’: gruelling video of Hamas hostages revealed

Poignant footage of the six hostages executed by Hamas in 2024 has emerged, showing the captives lighting candles for Hanukkah, playing card games and discussing their torture.

Anne Barrowclough

normalisation with israelWorld

FILE - President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

‘Tough’ talks: Tensions arise behind Trump and MBS bromance

When they fronted reporters in the Oval Office last week, the Saudi Crown Prince and Donald Trump had nothing but praise for each other. Until normalisation with Israel was brought up.

Anne Barrowclough

post-war enclaveWorld

Mohammad Shawa has been named as Hamas and the Palestinian Authority's choice to run the technocrat committee overseeing Gaza. Picture;L Wikipedia.

Pro-Hamas aid director picked to head Gaza board

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority named Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGO Network as their choice to lead the technocrat committee that will oversee Gaza.

Anne Barrowclough

‘terror without Iran prints’Nation

Mossad named Sardar Ammar as the commander of an IRGC network behind arson attacks on Jewish buildings in Australia.

Mossad names IRGC commander behind attacks on Australian Jewish sites

Sardar Ammar leads a network of 11,000 operatives that targeted a Melbourne synagogue and Sydney restaurant as well as Jewish businesses and institutions around the world.

Anne Barrowclough

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POLITICS NOWWorld

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 20: (L-R) Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Australian Ambassador to the U.S. Kevin Rudd (2nd R) speak to reporters ahead of a bilateral meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Albanese is visiting the U.S. Capital to meet with President Trump and later visit the Pentagon. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

‘Air has been cleared’ insists ex-mandarin, as Labor plays down Trump’s spray at Rudd

Former top public servant Dennis Richardson says any bad blood between the ambassador and the US President is now in the past. The White House scolding came amid a warm meeting with Anthony Albanese and the inking of a $13bn critical minerals deal.

Geoff Chambers, Joe Kelly, Anne Barrowclough and Noah Yim

hostages’ sufferingWorld

Israeli hostages, Elkana Bohbot (R) and Yosef-Haim Ohana (L). Picture: Twitter

Whipped, caged, tortured: the terrible abuse of the Israeli hostages

Stuffed into a pit, starved, locked in a room alongside other, dead hostages. Details of the abuse the Israeli captives suffered are slowly coming out.

Anne Barrowclough

hostages freedWorld

Noa Argamani reaches out as she's kidnapped by Hamas, and is reunited with boyfriend Avinitan Or.

From endless terror to joy: hostage couple finally reunite

Noa Argamani and her boyfriend Avinatan Or are finally reunited two years after the world watched her being carried away by militants on a motorbike as she screamed in terror.

Anne Barrowclough

palestinian propagandistWorld

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Pro-Hamas influencer ‘Mr FAFO’ killed in Hamas, clan battles

The death of propagandist Saleh Aljafarawi has been met with bitter satire on X, particularly over his ‘remarkable ability to appear in every role imaginable – often within the same 24-hour news cycle.’

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