Despite Iraqi women having more parliamentary seats, they lack real influence as they struggle against political & social ...

Al-Hol’s director Jihan Hanan said 18 women and children "of various nationalities, including Russian" attempted to escape ...

Forged during the Syrian war, Rojava’s experiment in radical self-government offers a lens for examining how the left ...

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Young women in postrevolutionary Iran used audacious acts of public dance, particularly during the past decade, to resist ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS ...

UNHCR honours three remarkable individuals and one organization dedicated to helping refugees, internally displaced people, war-affected communities and others in Mexico, Iraq, Tajikistan and Ukraine.

GENEVA - Four extraordinary individuals and a front-line national organization, who have demonstrated inspirational courage ...

The organizers “did not take these warnings seriously” and violated “public decency,” a public prosecutor told state media.

A former leader of Al Qaeda has convinced Washington that he’s a liberal reformer. Now comes the hard part of following ...