Conspiracy theories, misinformation and Houthi refusals to vaccinate people in areas under their control mean that...

In her new book, Toukan investigates the relationship between Western funding and contemporary art in Beirut, Amman...

An Afghan government official narrates the story of his escape from Kabul in the midst of the chaos surrounding the...

Turkey’s AKP represents one side of a deeply divided nation, but there are signs of shifts in the country’s...

The Afghanistan issue was on Dominic Raab’s desk for years. If he’d paid it more attention, he might have realised...

Empowering religious groups to become political actors does not constitute freedom of religion for all and violates...

Five years after its liberation, the city of Mukalla still suffers from the scars left by a year of darkness

With 82% of Lebanon’s population living in poverty, the country is in desperate need of political and economic reform

On an openDemocracy milestone for Paul Rogers, he gives an insight into the late 20th-century landscape that shaped...

The world must take action now to prevent a deep and lasting humanitarian crisis. But what, if anything, can be done?

With the future of women’s rights and girls’ education in doubt under Afghanistan’s new Taliban regime, Zarlasht...

The evacuation effort has been patchy at best – but it’s not too late to step up assistance

The challenge facing the country's new ministers is formidable – but at first look, it seems unlikely that they’ll...

Nobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans

US failure in Afghanistan was not the result of a plan poorly executed. Rather, it reveals the violent logic at the...

Pressure mounts on council to cancel international electronic warfare conference that was blocked from Spanish city last year

The occupation of Iraq drained the country’s resources and left a legacy of economic crisis, energy shortages,...

Throughout Yemen’s brutal war, parties to the conflict have deprived civilians of the food and water they need to...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11. So what is the legacy of the global War on Terror, and what does the...

Ed Owen, an advisor to the foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq invasion, on why he now feels differently about...