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Sudan faces a population shift as conflict empties areas, burdens cities, and disrupts economic and social stability. Sudanese refugees, mostly women and children, wait for a World Food Programme food distribution [File: Getty Images] Khartoum, Sudan – A senior Sudanese minister says more than three years of a devastating war in the country have “profoundly reshaped” its demographic makeup. Minister of Human Resources and Social Development Mutasim Ahmed Saleh told Al Jazeera

Hussein Saleh describes an Israeli air attack in Tyre that killed his family, including his wife and his only child. Israeli bombing in Baalbek, Wikimedia Commons Tyre, Lebanon – Hussein Saleh’s story is heard again and again in southern Lebanon. In March, he lost his family in an Israeli air strike. Hussein stands at the site of the attack in Tyre’s al-Thakana neighbourhood, where his home once stood. He pointed to the spot he was sitting in with his family before he went to

The IOM and UNHCR say two boats carrying mostly Rohingya passengers departed Rakhine State in late June. This year, more than 300 people were previously reported killed or missing in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, the report said [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters] Two boats carrying more than 500 people are feared to have capsized off the coast of Myanmar in recent days, United Nations agencies have said. Accordin

At least 28 people have been killed since protests began in June, as the region braces for a major protest march. Commuters ride past security personnel as they patrol a street before a protest by the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on June 7, 2026 [AFP] Islamabad, Pakistan – At least nine people were killed in clashes in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Tuesday, as a planned protest march to the region’s capital,

Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has been sentenced in absentia [Anadolu Agency via Getty Images] A Sudanese court has sentenced the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to death for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over atrocities committed in the West Darfur region. The court in Port Sudan, a city under the army's rule, convicted Dagalo - known as Hemedti - in absentia, along with 15 other senior

The Israeli military has continued to carry out regular strikes in Gaza despite the ceasefire with Hamas An Israeli air strike on a post belonging to Gaza's Hamas-run police force has killed at least seven people, including a senior officer and a woman, health and police officials say. Witnesses told the BBC that an Israeli drone fired four missiles at the post near a busy market in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza. The Palestinian territory's Hamas-run interior ministry sai

Karachi’s chief police surgeon condemns increasing acceptance of domestic murders and rapes of women and girls People protest after an acid attack on Dr Mahnoor Nasir, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 16 June. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images A white-bearded man looks straight into the camera, in the video circulating for the past few weeks on social media. “I killed my wife,” he says calmly in Urdu. “We have a give-and-take arrangement and when she refused to give, I said I would

One of the defendants pictured in court in Munich on Monday, Ehsan Monajati / dpa via AP A court in Germany has convicted an Iraqi couple of enslaving two Yazidi girls in Iraq. The Munich Higher Regional Court also found them guilty of membership of the Islamic State group (IS). The man, named only as Twana H.S. in line with German privacy rules, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and severe sexual abuse o

Ten newly identified victims were buried as the more than 8,000 slain Bosnian Muslim men and boys were remembered. Bosnian Muslims bury a casket containing the remains of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in the memorial cemetery, July 11 [AFP] Thousands have gathered in Bosnia and Herzegovina to mark 31 years since the Srebrenica genocide, as leaders and activists worldwide use the anniversary to call on people to fight dehumanisation. On Saturday, mourners, survivors,

ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) plans to open a new 528-bed facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children inside a Louisiana airport, AP reported this week. The facility will be run by the nonprofit arm of a private prison company that has reported deaths of two detainees since April at one of its facilities in the state. By JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US – Keep the kids, deport Trump, CC BY 2.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=87579676