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Saudi women journalists raise hands at press conference for US Secretary of State John Kerry
Conflict
Your week in women’s news: ISIS, healthcare and Nabra Hassenen’s murder
A fighter of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fires an anti-aircraft weapon from Tel Tawil village in the direction of Islamic State fighters positioned in the countryside of the town of Tel Tamr in 2015.
Conflict
Three years after declaring a ‘caliphate,’ ISIS is failing
First Nations protesters are silhouetted behind a flag in a "Idle No More" demonstration in Toronto.
Culture
Canada turns 150, but indigenous groups call for ‘Resistance150’
Jessica Keetso
Economics
For local water activists, Navajo coal mine closure would be a long-awaited win
Paul Gottinger and Mahsa Abbasi are engaged. They say the Trump administration's travel ban has created an "emotional roller coaster" for them.
Global Politics
They went high and low to be together. Now if only they can get past the travel ban.
Turkish cartoon makes fun of those who comment on women's clothes
Arts
Turkish female cartoonists get political — tackling oppression with humor
Mona (left) with Elvira Gordillo Rivera in Rivera's garden in Comalapa, Mexico.
Justice
A former trafficking victim gets her life back in southern Mexico
An investigator works at the scene of a car bomb explosion that killed Maksym Shapoval, a high-ranking Ukrainian official involved in military intelligence, in Kiev
Conflict
In Kiev, assassinations are becoming commonplace
Eric Dzhakhpevych, 31, left Kyrgyzstan to work at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow where fans will watch the opening match of the 2018 World Cup. Dzhakhpevych is one of many migrant workers who say they were victims of wage theft at Russia’s World Cup sites.
Jobs
Many migrant workers building Russia’s World Cup sites are getting stiffed
Trump Moon
Global Politics
Watch Live: Trump, Moon make joint statements on North Korea
Power plant and sandstone formation
Environment
For one Navajo family, a coal power plant has preserved a way of life
A police officer sets-up a mobile surveillance camera.
Conflict
A 2016 terrorist attack changed the conversation on surveillance in Germany
Wisam Albaiedhani (left) interpreting for US troops in Iraq.
Conflict
Trump’s travel ban sows confusion and fear, even among those eligible for visas
An Iceland Air flight crew arrives on the day that U.S. President Donald Trump's limited travel ban, approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, goes into effect, at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 29, 2017.
Global Politics
The new travel ban about to go into effect ‘is redefining what a family is’
Woman looks at her phone
Development
A world without men? When men go abroad to work, women in Nepal take the lead at home.
A tentative reconstruction of a skull being modified, in the style found at Gobekli Tepe
Culture
Stone Age skull cult found at what might be the world’s oldest temple
a soldier in front of the colloseum
Conflict
Do decades of mafia prosecutions give Italy an edge in preventing terror attacks?
Visitors walk past Cisco's booth during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2017.
Technology
Russia, suspected in attacks, allowed access to cybersecrets
Amanda Saab came up with the idea for "Dinner With Your Muslim Neighbor."
Food
Could dinner parties bring hearts and minds together? This Muslim woman is giving it a try.
Power plant
Environment
Navajo power plant likely to close, despite Trump’s promises to save coal
A comic depicting a blimp flight seen by spectators in Germany
Books
Drawing comics of Nazis taught this US author what fascism really looks like
Russian police detain female protesters
Conflict
Russia’s women protesters face rough treatment at hands of police
A woman holds an injured Egyptian fruit bat at her home in Tel Aviv February 21, 2016.
Health
Bats are special. But not in a good way.
The US Navy’s USS Porter launching a cruise missile strike against Syria, April 7th 2017
Conflict
The risks of war in the Middle East, as the US confronts Syria and Iran
A couple shops at a Louis Vuitton store in China.
Books
Kevin Kwan’s new novel satirizes the richest of the rich in Asia
Yvonne Chen
Global Politics
Should immigration agents be allowed to wait around courts to detain people?
A general view shows the newsroom at the headquarters of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera English-language channel in Doha February 7, 2011.
Media
Al Jazeera responds to demands that it be shut down
Conflict
After ISIS counterattack, Iraqi forces continue bloody offensive in Mosul
An EL AL Airlines aircraft is seen at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv July 14, 2015.
Religion
She was asked to change her seat on the plane. She sued the airline and won.
Doctors protesting
Conflict
Venezuela’s latest deadly plight: AIDS
George W. Bush at an Iftar dinner.
Religion
Humorist Wajahat Ali laughs off Trump’s desertion of the Eid celebration
Walter Odong is a survivor of one of the first major ebola epidemics- which tore through northern Uganda in 2000.
Health
There’s a new Ebola vaccine — but the fight is far from over
PM Modi
Global Politics
Watch: Trump hosts Indian Prime Minister Modi for their first face-to-face meeting
Marissa and Hannah Brandt.
Culture
How two sisters will make it to South Korea’s Olympics — but for opposing teams
Man in wrestling ring being tackled with referee in background
Culture
An American tradition took shape in Mexico — and then returned to the US
Otto - North Korea
Global Politics
In Otto Warmbier death, a clash between permissive, authoritarian cultures
People pose in front of a display showing the word 'cyber' in binary code
Conflict
Russia has been testing cyberwarfare techniques on Ukraine since 2014. What’s next?
An attendee leaves flowers for Nabra Hassanen, a teenage Muslim girl killed by a bat-wielding motorist near a Virginia mosque, during a vigil in New York City, U.S. June 20, 2017.
Global Politics
Nabra Hassanen’s murder feeds anti-immigrant rhetoric on the conservative internet
UAE soldiers stand guard at the international airport of the southern port city of Aden, Yemen.
Conflict
A top US ally runs secret torture prisons in Yemen
Mourners carry the coffin of a member of Iraqi security forces, killed during clashes in Mosul.
Conflict
ISIS is cornered in Mosul’s Old City. Militants are using everything they’ve got to hold on.
Commuters walk to the train station during evening rush hour in the financial district of Singapore March 9, 2015.
Economics
Here’s how Singapore provides high-quality health care at low costs
Oil wells dot the rural, agricultural landscape surrounding Williston, North Dakota. The Bakken formation has become one of the largest sources of new oil production in the US.
Economics
The ‘Wild West on steroids’ cools off
Lee Man-hee is the founder of Shinchonji, an apocalyptic Christian group from South Korea that's attracted followers in numerous countries, including the US. Lee identifies himself as "the promised pastor," mentioned in the Bible. His critics say that Lee
Culture
This apocalyptic Korean Christian group goes by different names. Critics say it’s just a cult.
Afro-Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena performs during the New Era concert in Havana, 2016.
Music
Cuba’s Daymé Arocena found her religion through music
Victoria Jabara Williams with her brothers, from left, Rami Jabara and Khalid Jabara.
Justice
An immigrant was shot in Oklahoma. His family wants justice.
Brazil's President Michel Temer
Global Politics
As Brazil’s president races to change labor laws, investigators circle
soldier
Conflict
One American family’s mission to rescue civilians in Mosul
illustration of people being stamped by immigration related words
Global Politics
Their lives are changing because of Trump’s immigration policies. Here’s how.
John Feltner, a registered Democrat turned Trump supporter, is losing his manufacturing job to Mexico. He’d like the president to do more, but doesn’t blame him for now being out of work.
Economics
Factory workers in Indiana appreciate Trump’s support, but need jobs more than tweets
Imam Mohamed Magid stands in front of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) mosque in Sterling, Virginia, U.S. on May 19, 2016. In a statement after the murder of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, Magid said, “We are devastated and heartbroken as our commu
Religion
The murder of a Virginia teen has ‘shaken up the entire American Muslim community’
Antarctica
Environment
Antarctica is getting greener. And that’s not necessarily a good thing.
In Mexico City, a grandmother, who has not seen her relatives living in the US for nearly two decades, “visits” them through a virtual reality video made by the Family Reunions Project.
Economics
Homesick? Two immigrant entrepreneurs are creating virtual reunions.
Lieutenant Commander Christian Medick on the bridge of US Coast Guard Cutter
Culture
Meet the Coast Guard protecting America’s East Coast
Day of the Dead holiday
Conflict
The US shares the blame for a massacre in Mexico
A teacher writes words from an indigenous language on a chalk board
Education
Mexican women lead initiatives to rescue native tongues
Pakistani cricket fans, in Islamabad, cheer after Pakistan defeated India in the Champions Trophy finals
Sports
Pakistanis go wild after cricket triumph over India
Players waiting for a decision after the referee asked for a video review of Australia's second goal against Germany during a Confederation Cup match in Sochi, Russia
Sports
Soccer flirts with making ‘let’s go to the videotape’ official
A demonstrator holds a sign of Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui
Media
Mexican government is accused of using spyware to target journalists, lawyers and activists
A group of men stand with bowed heads.
Conflict
London officials vow to up protections for mosques after an overnight attack
A military vehicle transports the ashes of Cuba's late President Fidel Castro at the start of a three-day journey to the eastern city of Santiago, in Havana, Cuba, November 30, 2016.
Economics
Trump’s plan restricts travel and business with Cuba