A series of reconciliation agreements were struck last summer between communities in Sudan’s long-suffering Darfur region, where waves of mass killings have displaced more than 700,000 people in recent years. But the accords have been rejected by…

As highly charged political debate in Türkiye intensifies ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections next year, the situation for refugees and asylum seekers in the country is becoming increasingly precarious. Hundreds of Syrian refugees –…

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans attempting to escape Taliban persecution and the country’s economic collapse are largely being met with closed borders, hardening attitudes, and deportation. Meanwhile, Western governments have been slow to fulfil…

Eating street food in Aleppo or dancing in public as a woman in Riyadh isn’t as easy as influencers want you to believe. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Syria are hiring popular influencers to whitewash repeated human rights abuses. Even…

A key inflection point to move the American public and Congress toward supporting war in Iraq was the gruesome 1990 testimony of a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah, who described how Iraqi troops killed 312 babies. Problem was, Nayirah’s story was made…

The killing last week of three young men after they were intercepted at sea by the EU-funded Libyan Coast Guard has thrown the spotlight on the fate of tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers returned to Libya to face detention, abuse and…

Raphael Luzon was a terrified little boy when angry mobs surrounded his home in Libya’s second-largest city, Benghazi. As a Jewish Libyan, he remembers Arab nationalists attacking his people and setting fire to his father’s pharmacies after Syria,…

Khalid al Baih was watching the beginning of the Tunisian Revolution from the basement of a museum in Doha, the capital of Qatar. It was December 2010, and the Sudanese cartoonist was supposed to leave his workplace, yet he couldn’t take his eyes off…

Anbara Salam Khalidi, just 20 years old, wasn’t afraid to stand up on a podium and make history. After spending two years abroad in England, the daughter of a prominent Sunni Lebanese family was asked to give a talk at the American University of…

Women and young brides gather to receive blankets distributed at the Oure Cassoni Refugee Camp for Darfur's victims of atrocities four miles from the border with Sudan in Bahai, Chad. SourceRobert Sabo/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Sudan’s former…

This is an opinion piece in the form of an immodest proposal. Please let us know what you think of the idea by leaving comments below. The plan was reckless from the start. Citing incorrect intelligence, former President George W. Bush and Vice…

After overthrowing dictator Omar al-Bashir last April, Sudanese protesters vowed to remain in the streets of the capital, Khartoum, until the military handed over authority to a civilian government. With the global community watching Sudan closely,…

Abdul Khaliq was willing to die for a cigarette. The lifelong educator knew that the simple pleasure of inhaling and exhaling tobacco carried a death sentence in Tabqa, a city located in Syria’s Raqqa province. That’s because, at the time, the…

Hundreds took to the streets as antiwar and social justice groups organized a demonstration in New York City, with a rally at Herald Square and a march to Trump Tower as part of national and regional spring actions throughout the country against the…

During Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, Abdul Monem was abducted from the side of the road in northern Libya last June. The 37-year-old Sudanese migrant was then hauled to a warehouse in Bani Walid, a former stronghold of the slain dictator Moammar…

The official account of Sabiha Gökçen’s life is something out of a fairy-tale. As a 12-year-old, Gökçen brazenly approached Turkey’s founder and first president, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, for help attending boarding school when he visited the orphanage…

In a nationwide address on Oct. 25, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned that the mass protests against the Lebanese government that began that month were the result of a foreign conspiracy to weaken the country. As the leader…

Lebanon’s nationwide revolt that erupted last month has spawned street parties, mob attacks and a rare display of solidarity that has defied sectarian lines. Yet despite the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri last week, the revolution won’t be…

In the early morning of Aug. 26, dozens of asylum seekers and migrants woke up to the frightening sound of a helicopter buzzing above them. Greek riot police were stationed outside, ready to evict them from two buildings that had been abandoned for…