Sara Manisera

Thou­sands in Iraq’s sec­ond-largest city have been wound­ed as the cam­paign to re­move ISIL fight­ers con­tin­ues.

Hun­dreds of Tunisian men have dis­ap­peared while at­tempt­ing to cross the Mediter­ranean Sea to­wards Italy.

Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion cen­tre in Su­lai­ma­nia pro­duces pros­thet­ic limbs and of­fers vo­ca­tion­al train­ing for dis­abled Iraqis.

De­spite the risks, Al­ghad FM broad­casts in­for­ma­tion and com­men­tary into the ISIL strong­hold via front­line trans­mit­ters.

From griev­ing fa­thers to women burned at sea, so­cial work­er Francesco Pi­ob­bichi draws the sto­ries of refugees.

Or­tho­dox priest Vo­jislav Car­kic was in the in­fa­mous Chet­nik di­vi­sion of the Ser­bian army dur­ing the Bosn­ian war.

Naw­al Soufy’s phone num­ber is passed to refugees who then con­tact her if their boat gets into trou­ble at sea.

Two bold new projects want to en­sure the safe and le­gal pas­sage of refugees to Eu­rope, while in­spir­ing oth­ers to act.

Mas­si­mo Carmi­nati, a for­mer mem­ber of a neo-fas­cist group, is charged along with dozens of politi­cians and busi­ness­men.

Refugees who fled Syr­ia’s civ­il war have found them­selves with few al­ter­na­tives for work in neigh­bour­ing Lebanon.