Four years after the ouster of Mohamed Morsi, new data explore how the military influenced popular mobilization.

Horrific aftermath of Assad's chemical attack on Khan Shaykhoun

For a world that too often seems impervious to the horrors of Syria’s civil war, the photos and videos from Tuesday’s chemical weapons attack, which killed dozens of civilians, bore witness to a new level of atrocity.

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An air strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people near the Islamic-State held Syrian city of Raqqa killed at least 33 people, a group that monitors the war said on Wednesday.

‘Man-made’ food crisis threatens 100,000 people after war and a collapsing economy devastate agriculture in the country

The Burmese authorities may have killed more than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims during a recent crackdown on the minority group in the northeast Rakhine state, two unnamed UN officials have told the Reuters news agency. Authorities in Burma launched a military campaign against the Rohingya after militant elements of the group were accused of attacking police border posts in October last year.

Pope Francis issued a stinging criticism of atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya minority on Wednesday, saying they had been tortured and killed simply because they wanted to live their culture and Muslim faith.

Omar al-Shogre describes his horrific ordeal in Syrian regime prisons, which taught him to treasure his humanity.

Groups of up to 50 people were executed every week for five years at Saydnaya, a rights group alleges.

Ali Ghussun weighed just 40kg when he died Monday morning of kidney failure.

Army has carried out mass killings of Muslim minority, UN rights office says, in possible ethnic cleansing.

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Against both rebels in the besieged valley and supporters in Damascus, Syria's president uses water scarcity to empower himself ahead of talks

Images have emerged of the body of a baby boy, reported to be a Rohingya Muslim child who drowned while fleeing violence in Burma’s Rakhine state. Non-state media are banned from entering the north of Burma – making it difficult to verify the the photograph – and the government has dismissed the image as “propaganda”.

Letter says Myanmar’s leader and peace prize winner has failed to act as ‘grossly disproportionate’ crackdown on minority Muslim group kills hundreds

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The body of a decapitated Rohingya Muslim man has been found in a river in in Myanmar just days after he spoke to journalists. The man had spoken to Burmese reporters on a rare Government-sanctioned media tour of an area within the Rakhine state, which has been on lockdown for more than two months since its border posts were attacked by militants.

Some 70 months ago, unarmed, ordinary Syrians rose peacefully against a regime whose incompetence and corruption they had come grudgingly to accept. It was their rulers’ detention and beating of children that provided the tipping point. The same regime seeks now to capitalize on a bloody victory in Aleppo, where children again have been targeted