Sally Nabil BBC World Service Reporting fromQandil Mountains, Iraq MUSTAFA OZER/AFP via Getty Images) When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long insurgency against Turkey, Leila hoped she might soon be reunited with her son. Three years ago, the former sandwich seller left home to...
Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi AFP/Getty Images Kenya’s crackdown on protesters over the last year has sullied its image as a beacon of democracy Kenya has been hit by a recent wave of repression, tarnishing its reputation as a beacon of democracy in East Africa. Critics fear that it is sliding down the path of...
Sonja Jessup BBC London Home affairs correspondent BBC Young people at the Voyage youth charity said the Child Q case had left them feeling unsafe “I thought, if it could happen to a girl, that is younger than me, imagine what could happen to me?” It’s more than four years since a 15-year-old girl, identified only...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. After reports of student arrests and detainments, an international student at Nashville, Tennessee’s Belmont University, canceled his flight home to India. A thousand miles away in Boston, a foreign medical resident called off his...
Azadeh Moshiri and Fiona Nimoni BBC Pakistan correspondent Social media A picture of a Tehran resident’s home posted on social media Many Iranians have reacted with fear and dismay at Donald Trump’s instruction to “immediately evacuate Tehran”. The capital’s almost 10 million residents have now been left to decide whether to shelter in their homes...
Watch: Leisure centre set on fire in third night of violence in Northern Ireland A man who was inside a leisure centre in County Antrim as it was attacked on Wednesday night has spoken of the fear felt by customers and staff. Northern Ireland Assembly Member Danny Donnelly said Larne Leisure Centre was being used...
Joel Gunter Reporting from Bucha, Ukraine BBC Tatyana Popvytch’s son was taken to Russian. “He is so vulnerable,” she said. “I worry that he will lose his sanity there.” Tatyana Popovytch had contacted every agency she could think of. She had walked every step her son Vladislav could have taken after the Russians opened fire...
BBC A Russian call-up poster urges the local population in occupied Melitopol to “Defend the Motherland, professionally” A fifth of Ukrainian territory is now under Russian control, and for Ukrainians living under occupation there seems little chance that any future deal to end the war will change that. Three Ukrainians in different Russian-controlled cities have...
Residents of northern Gaza began fleeing en masse on the morning of Saturday, May 17, as the Israeli military launched a wave of indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes on Beit Lahia and its surrounding areas. The bombardment marked the onset of Israel’s expanded ground invasion to “conquer” the Gaza Strip. That same night, as residents sensed...
Mark Poynting Climate reporter, BBC News Noaa/Reuters Hurricane Milton, in October 2024, was one of the Atlantic’s strongest recorded storms The coming Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be busier than usual, US science agency NOAA has warned, just as cuts to American research are raising fears about the ability to track and prepare for...
This spring, with hands overflowing with tenderness, Lolo Mando Al-Qishawi — a Palestinian mother living on Yaffa Street in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in the eastern part of Gaza City — lovingly adorned her daughter in her Eid dress, her eyes reflecting the girl’s pure, uncontainable joy. But soon, those same hands, trembling with heartbreak, had...
BBC Urdu correspondent Farhat Javed reports from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir where an Indian air strike damaged a mosque and some houses. Though many people had left the area last night, some residents have been able to return to assess the damage to their properties, locals told the BBC. A sense of fear and uncertainty...
Watch: BBC witnesses tempers flare between a van dweller and local residents “I’m standing up for my rights,” bellows Danny, a balding man with a grey beard who calls a converted horsebox home in a leafy suburb of Bristol. The 55-year-old has just marched across the grass, his pink shirt flapping open in the early...
Raghvendra Rao BBC Hindi, Pahalgam Nikhil Inamdar BBC News, London Seraj Ali Some tourists decided to stay back in Pahalgam because flight tickets back home were expensive One week after a devastating militant attack near the mountain resort of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir killed 26 people, the town wears a look of quiet desolation, although...
The stepson of a police officer allegedly opened fire at Florida State University (FSU) using her former service weapon, killing two people and injuring six others, authorities say. Police responded to an active shooter call near the student union building in Tallahassee. An alert was issued warning students and those on campus to “seek shelter...