Malachy Browne

Our recent video investigation on Sudan now has Arabic subtitles. It charts a command structure for the opaque paramilitary group, the RSF, and links named commanders to some of the war's worst atrocities. Please share with Sudanese friends. youtube.com/watch?v=H231Yl…

NEW: Together with @ChrisOsieck @weatherwar & @wammezz we investigated the environmental impacts on the March 7 strikes on four different oil storage depots in Tehran and Karaj for @newlinesmag Thank you to @kshaheen and @RashaElass for the edit and for making space for this reporting. newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-…

NEW TODAY - Trump Vowed to Crack Down on Fraudsters, but He’s Pardoned Dozens nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/… via @NYTimes

X, C, A, B, MZ: I’m thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls. By Caoilfhionn Gallagher irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

Where Iran is hitting back in the war. Take a listen nytimes.com/video/us/10000…

What would we think if Iran bombed an American school? My column looks at how Trump and Hegseth are undermining the rules of war -- not clear war crimes but getting into territory that is horrifyingly ambiguous. Please read: nytimes.com/2026/03/14/opi…

"Today, large parts of the West Bank are inaccessible to Palestinians because of violence from settlers living in these herding farms. The scale of this is like nothing else since the 1967 war."

“No one knows what will happen,” he said. “And we are all somewhere on the edge between depression and hope.” nytimes.com/2026/03/14/wor…

'That's When the Boos Started': The Oscars Speech That Lost the Room nytimes.com/interactive/20…

A US-made HIMARS launcher was filmed firing missiles at Iran from Bahrain. Most other Gulf states have denied that the US has launched attacks from its soil against Iran. Bahrain has remained silent on this question. nytimes.com/2026/03/13/wor…

This is why painstaking investigations like this from the New York Times matter — establishing what actually happened and documenting the devastating human cost. “U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says” nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/… via @NYTimes

NYT reporting found that civilians killed by strikes in the Gulf are almost all migrant workers nytimes.com/2026/03/10/wor…

Since Feb. 28, at least 16 merchant vessels have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz and its adjoining waters (Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman), killing 8 seafarers, with one still missing. w/ @BlackiLi and Lazaro Gamio. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Read our full investigation here: Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence - reuters.com/investigations…

U.S. at fault in the deadly strike on an Iranian elementary school: U.S. officers created the target coordinates for the attack using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, an inquiry's preliminary findings conclude nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/…

Important story by my colleague @farnazfassihi on the cultural casualties of the war in Iran, the damage done to "living breathing monuments to beauty and creation." nytimes.com/2026/03/11/wor…

News: An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for the deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, per officials familiar w/ @julianbarnes, @EricSchmittNYT, @malachybrowne + @helenecooper nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/…

An ongoing military investigation has determined that the US was responsible for a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school that killed 175, refuting Trump's claim that Iran did it. @julianbarnes @EricSchmittNYT @tylerpager @malachybrowne @helenecooper nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/…

An ongoing US military investigation has determined that the US is responsible for the Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school because of a targeting mistake. It’s one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/…

A military investigation has determined the U.S. carried out the deadly Tomahawk strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to US officials & others familiar with the preliminary findings. W/ @julianbarnes @EricSchmittNYT @tylerpager @helenecooper nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/…

A unique Dept. of Defense contract no. shows one missile part was delivered sometime after a 2014 order. The names of U.S. weapons manufacturers Globe Motors and Ball Aerospace & Technologies were imprinted on the parts photographed near the school. nytimes.com/2026/03/09/wor…

Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…

New: An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school. nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/…