Reuters Investigates

Banksy has created street art around the world. But it was an unfinished work on a billboard atop a New York apartment building that helped Reuters to prove beyond all doubt the artist's identity reut.rs/4cGMYnb

Reuters journey to understand Banksy began in Ukraine and led to a rooftop billboard in New York’s Meatpacking District, and the walls and auction houses of London reut.rs/4cGMYnb

The search for Banksy began in war-ravaged Ukraine and took Reuters to New York and London, uncovering details about the tactics Banksy used to remain masked reut.rs/4cGMYnb

Reuters consulted Banksy experts, pored over scores of photos and reviewed never-before-published court and police records, including a hand-written confession that reveals beyond dispute the artist's true identity reut.rs/4cGMYnb

Reuters reporters hoped that finding out more about Banksy, in particular his real name and background, might provide essential context for better understanding the artist’s work and to assess the motivations behind his pseudonymity reut.rs/4cGMYnb

Best known for simple yet sophisticated work infused with searing social commentary, Banksy has produced art that's generated tens of millions of dollars in sales. Despite his fame, few know with certainty his real name reut.rs/4cGMYnb

For decades, Banksy nurtured the notion that he can be anywhere at any moment. Reuters explores the art, commerce and paradox of the most famous anonymous man in the world reut.rs/4cGMYnb

When Banksy's work began appearing in Ukraine, Reuters journalists wondered how he pulled it off. We knew some residents were watching him work. Would they be able to identify him? reut.rs/4cGMYnb

The AI boom poses a problem for the FDA, current and former agency scientists told Reuters: The agency is struggling to keep pace with the flood of AI-enhanced medical devices seeking approval after losing key staff reut.rs/3Ov2oAB @specialreports

A growing number of mobile apps, available on the Apple and Google app stores, claim to use AI to assist patients with their medical complaints – in some cases, giving inaccurate and potentially dangerous advice reut.rs/4bKkM2m @specialreports

After artificial intelligence was added to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events reut.rs/4bJXQjB @specialreports

A Reuters investigation maps how Iranian-linked ships secretly moved vast quantities of jet fuel and a key explosives ingredient to Myanmar — and how those supplies fed the junta's expanded air war reut.rs/4k6fpN6 @specialreports

Iran is secretly shipping jet fuel and urea to Myanmar’s military government, @specialreports found. The deliveries are powering an expanding air war that has seen at least 1,700 civilian deaths since October 2024 reut.rs/4qQk48f

Syria asked Lebanon to hand over more than 200 officers who fled there after Assad’s fall. Syrian officials want answers after a @specialreports investigation that showed Lebanon was a hub for insurgent plotting against the government in Damascus reut.rs/4sEs4KX

At least 28 prisons and lockups from the Assad era have reopened this year and abuses are common. The conditions in these facilities don’t approach the industrial-scale abuses under Assad. But rights activists say they cast a shadow over Syria's new rulers reut.rs/3L6ZnVT

‘The regime fell, but those ruling today decided to turn the Assad prisons into new prisons,’ says Amer Matar, a Syrian journalist who was briefly detained under the new government. Read our @specialreports investigation: reut.rs/4p6lDgu

A year after Assad's fall, Syria's prisons are filling up again. Reuters found at least 28 detention facilities from the Assad era have reopened this year, holding detainees without charges or paper trails. Reuters @specialreports investigation: reut.rs/3YH0NcQ

Reuters interviewed 10 former child soldiers in Congo. One teen forcibly recruited by M23 rebels said his job was to round up females for rape — and that he committed three rapes himself reut.rs/4oOzOH1

A child in Congo is raped every 30 minutes, according to children’s agency UNICEF. The organization calls it ‘a deliberate act of terror.’ @Reuters investigates conflict-related sexual violence in the country reut.rs/4oOzOH1

Some 81,000 rapes occurred in eastern Congo through the first nine months of 2025, up more than 31% over the same period in 2024, according to UN figures. The UN says one-third of the victims were minors. @Reuters reveals the terror reut.rs/4oOzOH1