Many in Poland feel the Russian armed group has few options at its disposal to realistically endanger their security.

Many in Poland feel the Russian armed group has few options at its disposal to realistically endanger their security.

A Syrian refugee who fled from Belarus says border guards put out cigarettes on his war wounds.

Female activists are secretly building support networks for marginalised women in Taliban-governed Afghanistan.

Thousands of at-risk Afghans continue to wait for their humanitarian parole and visa applications to progress.

Murad’s wife died from hypothermia and sepsis. The couple’s stillborn son is now buried near the Belarusian border.
![Baravan Huzni Murad, one of many Kurdish Iraqis who have fled to Poland, is grieving after his wife died during the journey [Michal Kranz/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/C06A8650.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Iraqis who worked with the Americans are now more worried than ever about their fate as the US leaves.
![US Army veteran Spencer Sullivan, right, and Abdulhaq Sodais, who served as his translator, look at images taken in Afghanistan [Peter Dejong/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Translator.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Battered by violence, Christians face a confluence of environmental and economic hardship in the Nineveh Plains.
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Lebanon’s economic and political crisis over the past four months has hit Syrian refugees particularly hard.

Fear of what the future may hold is palpable, as economic crisis deepens and living standards plummet rapidly.

Experts, locals and activists deplore World Bank-funded dam project in Bisri Valley, rejecting council’s assurances.
