Our long time contributor Benas Gerdziunas spent six months in Lebanon during the winter of 2017 - 2018 chronicling Lebanese culture. Featured here is Benas' photo essay “Chasing Druze Re...

What started a few weeks ago as a local protest against the collapse of the waste disposal system in Lebanon might grow into a major political movement. Only a few hundred meters from the...

"They risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved. Editor Nancy Gibbs explains why the Ebola Fighters are TIME's choice for Person of the Year 2014" Our contributor, Daniel Van Moll, fo...

"I call on States to honour their obligation to protect human rights every day of the year. I call on people to hold their governments to account. " UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...

Fighters from Al-Abbas, a Shia militia fighting in Irak, pushed back ISIS fighters and set up fortifications in Hamrin Mountains.The fighters were able to enter al-Ukhaidir after 3 months...

ISIS fighters demolished a 800 year-old Yazidi temple in the village of Babira after they taking control over vast swathes of the Nineveh Valley at the beginning of August, 2014. Resident...

Women Do It Better!  Kurdish women who signed up for a military training camp to defend their towns from ISIS, speak about the reasons why they decided to join the Kurdish Peoples Prot...

Abdulkhaliq Al Jawari focuses on the living conditions of a few hundred Yazidis who have taken up arms and formed an organized protection unit of fighters to protect them from ISIS attack...

Ammar Abd Rabbo reveals the story of 9 year old Rasha who was only 6 years old when the war in Syria broke out and is now a Youtube sensation.  Racha is one of the leading actors in th...

This rare video was recorded by a Syrian contributor who is a resident of Deir ez Zour. He is not member of ISIS and has not sworn allegiance to the group. He obtained approval from ISIS ...