By UN NewsThe world is entering a new era of crisis for children; climate change, inequality and conflict are disrupting their lives and limiting their futures, an authoritative study from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned.At the beginning o...

By AFP/Safin HamidHer family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror.A decade later, 27-year-old Silvana K...

By AFPFaced with plunging temperatures and heavy rain in war-battered central Gaza's Deir el-Balah, displaced Palestinian father Tayseer Obaid resorted to digging for a modicum of domestic comfort.In the clay soil of the encampment area that his fami...

By AFP/Louis BAUDOIN-LAARMANBatoul Bsharat was playing with her eight-year-old brother Reda in their village in the occupied West Bank. Moments later an Israeli drone strike killed him and two of their cousins."It was the first time in our lives that...

By AFP/Didier LAURASHis orange henna-dyed beard and striking eyewear would make him easy to pick out in a crowd, but Abdul Qadir Mumin has remained elusive.The Somali leader of the Islamic State (IS) group has in all likelihood risen to the status of...

By AFP/Daniel LawlerResearch published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was around 40 percent higher than recorded by the Palestinian territory's health...

By AFP/Maher Al MounesEvery night, Damascus residents stand guard outside shops and homes armed with light weapons often supplied by Syria's new rulers, eager to fill the security vacuum that followed the recent takeover.After Islamist-led rebels ous...

By AFP/Layal Abou Rahal and Laure Al KhouryLebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial meltdown.Aoun, who...

By AFP/Anuj CHOPRATech giant Meta's shock announcement that it is ending its US fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday from disinformation researchers who warned it risked opening the floodgates for false narratives.Meta Chief Exe...

By AFP/Anuj CHOPRA with Masroor GILANI and Rachel BLUNDYFrom the United States to Italy, Britain, and Pakistan, female politicians are increasingly becoming victims of AI-generated deepfake pornography or sexualized images, in a troubling trend that...

By UN News/Jonathan Dumont“We saw dead bodies scattered to the left and right, decomposing in the sun”, recounts Jonathan Dumont, Head of Emergency Communications at the World Food Programme (WFP). A veteran of conflict zones around the world, he say...

By AFPOrthodox Christians marked a sombre Christmas on Tuesday in the war-torn Gaza Strip, with worshippers saying there would be no gifts for children and no joy during this year's holiday.In the richly decorated Church of Saint Porphyrius in the he...