Samya Kullab

The des­per­ate con­di­tions of west Mo­sul res­i­dents are ex­pect­ed to be com­pound­ed as Iraqi forces sur­round the old city.

Thou­sands of peo­ple re­main un­ac­count­ed for af­ter at­tempt­ing the dead­ly Mediter­ranean Sea cross­ing.

While Pales­tini­ans in Gaza wel­comed the ar­rival of ba­sic goods, some were scep­ti­cal about its long-term ben­e­fits.

With in­ter­na­tion­al sup­port, Palmyra can be re­built, ac­cord­ing to Syr­ia’s di­rec­tor of an­tiq­ui­ties.

Syr­i­an refugees talk about their or­deal as they trav­el back home to see their fam­i­lies in ISIL-held ter­ri­to­ry.

So­cial stig­ma and lack of knowl­edge about HIV/AIDS in Lebanon can lead to its spread, ac­tivists say.

With their lands used as bases for var­i­ous armed groups, farm­ers say they have been un­able to tend their crops.

Sec­tar­i­an ten­sion and so­cial mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion are be­hind Tripoli’s dead­liest at­tacks in years.

Ac­tivists in Beirut are com­bat­ing a mu­nic­i­pal­i­ty-backed road project they say will cut through his­toric neigh­bour­hoods.

Hun­dreds of Syr­i­ans sus­pect­ed of in­volve­ment in anti-army at­tacks have been swept up, as refugees call raids ‘un­just’.