Terror & Security

ICC seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief for crimes against Rohingya

It is the first time a senior member of the country’s military has been sought in connection with the persecution of the Muslim minority

Arthur Scott-Geddes 27 Nov 2024, 1:31pm
Myanmar overtakes Syria and Ukraine in landmine deaths

The rise in landmines comes as fighting ramps up in civil war, which was sparked by a ruthless crackdown following a military coup in 2021

Sarah Newey 20 Nov 2024, 5:49pm
The Philippines will not intervene if Interpol arrests Duterte over ‘war on drugs’

Filipino government agrees to cooperate with the International Criminal Court after it resumed a stalled investigation into Mr Duterte

Sarah Newey 15 Nov 2024, 10:24am
The international community’s failure on Sudan has shocked me to my core

Tufail Hussain 11 Nov 2024, 2:21pm
How Russian interference threatens to derail malaria vaccines in Africa

Adrian Blomfield 3 Nov 2024, 10:49am
Fighting in Gaza limits vaccine access in ‘dangerous’ polio red zones

Ruwaida Amer 18 Oct 2024, 6:20pm
‘Mentally and physically, I am not the same... but this war is right’

Melanie Swan 4 Oct 2024, 10:13am

‘We have to get children back to school’: Education goes underground in Ukraine

Gabriella Jozwiak 3 Oct 2024, 10:16am
Award-winning Cambodian journalist arrested amid ‘repressive’ crackdown on media freedoms

Sarah Newey 1 Oct 2024, 11:24am
‘People are hopeless here’: Sudan’s sick, starving and injured spill into camps across its borders

Tom Nicholson 1 Oct 2024, 8:06am

The world is going in the wrong direction – we need peace more than ever

Hanan Balkhy 23 Sep 2024, 7:07pm
Palestinians with ‘life-changing injuries’ will need rehabilitation for years to come, WHO warns

Lilia Sebouai 12 Sep 2024, 3:13pm
Almost 200 ecological activists murdered last year while protecting environment, says new report

Nicola Smith 10 Sep 2024, 4:07pm
Humanitarian crisis hits a vital lifeline in Gaza – donkeys

Lilia Sebouai 3 Sep 2024, 3:16pm

Terrorism

This is a coup for Mossad that opens a window for war

Paul Nuki 18 Sep 2024, 8:44pm
‘I watched extremists behead my neighbour’: Inside Mozambique’s ISIS terror battleground

Kang-Chun Cheng 23 Aug 2024, 8:40am
Churches burned and children ‘seized’ as militants target Christians in Mozambique

Peta Thornycroft 8 Mar 2024, 8:00am
Taliban bomb kills six in Pakistan polio vaccination mission

Ben Farmer 8 Jan 2024, 3:34pm

Migration

Niger’s military coup casts doubt on EU migration scheme, warn analysts

Ben Farmer 5 Aug 2023, 5:00pm
Niger unrest is the latest democratic domino to fall in a growing ‘coup belt’ of African nations

Ben Farmer 4 Aug 2023, 5:58pm
Ukraine war sparked fastest migration crisis since Second World War

Harriet Barber 14 Jun 2023, 3:00am

More stories

Almost 100,000 children vaccinated against polio in Gaza

Maeve Cullinan 2 Sep 2024, 5:33pm
Israel agrees to pause in fighting for Gaza polio vaccination campaign, WHO says

Maeve Cullinan 29 Aug 2024, 8:22pm
‘I watched extremists behead my neighbour’: Inside Mozambique’s ISIS terror battleground

Kang-Chun Cheng 23 Aug 2024, 8:40am
Putin has broken one of the most sacred rules of warfare - and the consequences could be dire

Becky Alexis-Martin 17 Aug 2024, 7:44am
Young children among 150 Rohingya killed in drone attack in Myanmar

Sarah Newey 13 Aug 2024, 12:01am
Famine officially declared in Sudan

Ben Farmer 1 Aug 2024, 2:01pm
Sword-wielding priests preaching a message of love draw tourists to the birthplace of Voodoo

Sam Bradpiece 26 Jul 2024, 7:00am
How Ukraine broke Putin’s Black Sea grain blockade – and what it means for Africa

Ben Farmer 23 Jul 2024, 7:00am

War crime fears in Sudan as refugee camps treat hundreds of shot children

Lilia Sebouai 22 Jul 2024, 11:44am
More than 170 schools and universities attacked in Myanmar since military coup

Nicola Smith 22 Jul 2024, 9:27am

Polio detected in Gaza may have been imported by aid workers

Maeve Cullinan 19 Jul 2024, 5:04pm
AI, cyber-attacks and amateur experiments threaten to upend global biosecurity, WHO warns

Lilia Sebouai 12 Jul 2024, 5:44pm
Palestinians dying as Israeli health ‘lockdown’ hits medical care across the West Bank

Nicola Smith 11 Jul 2024, 7:00am
Ukrainians return to shattered villages, to eke out lives in the shells of their homes

Ben Farmer 2 Jul 2024, 8:00am