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Migrants at the Belarus–Lithuania border reveal to °®Âþµº a series of punitive measures imposed by both countries to prevent asylum from being granted. The policies are symptomatic of a rising tide of xenophobia across the European Union.
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Both Iraqi and Syrian football has been manipulated to legitimise their authoritarian leaders, with sport suffering as a consequence. We find out how they are faring in World Cup qualification, and how the ongoing conflicts may affect their chances.
In-depth: There are mounting allegations of illegal and violent practices by the EU agency Frontex, suggesting the EU's border system is surviving by violating its own laws.
In-depth: There are high hopes in both Iraqi Christian and Shia Muslim communities ahead of Pope Francis' historic meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
Book Club: Soner Cagaptay charts the rise of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and how he sought to make Turkey a major power.
Photographer Seivan Salim is challenging people's perceptions and taboos in the Middle East about pets in her new picture exhibition.
FGM, in which a girl or woman's genitals are cut or removed, was once extremely common in the Kurdish region, but WADI's campaigning has chipped away at the practice.
Q&A: The international legal expert talks to Hadani Ditmars about how paying hypocritical lip-service to human rights leads to a rise in extremism, both foreign and domestic.
Kurdish women in northern Syria are fighting both the fundamentalist tyranny of the Islamic State group and the violent authoritarianism of patriarchy itself.
Plans are in motion to accommodate up to 200,000 people estimated to be displaced by events in Mosul. But amid aid budget deficits, will they prove sufficient?