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Macer Gifford, a British volunteer who joined the Kurds in the fight against ISIS in Syria.

British volunteers in Syria took on ISIS. Now they face possible arrest back home.

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Macer Gifford gave up a career in London as a currency trader to fight ISIS with Kurdish troops in Syria. He’s uncertain what will happen if he heads back to Britain.

Abdallah Khalil (right) with friends in northern Paris. Khalil arrived in Paris in December and hopes to get asylum in France.

French police don’t want migrants getting too comfortable on the streets of Paris

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Tunisian fishermen try on life jackets offered by MSF at the end of the training. The fishermen say in general they lack the equipment to cope with boatloads of migrants and refugees in distress.

Tunisian fishermen are trained to be ‘safety nets’ for migrants making a deadly sea crossing

Global Politics
Workers unload emergency medical aid from Medecins Sans Frontieres from a plane at Sanaa airport on April 13, 2015

Doctors Without Borders pleads: ‘Please allow the humanitarian actors to do their work’ in Yemen

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A girl and her brother shelter in a cave during an air raid in the Nuba mountains of Sudan in 2012.

Doctors become targets in Sudan’s forgotten wars

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MSF staff working in Ramtha Hospital (Jordan, near the Syrian border), where war wounded patients from Syria are being treated. MSF medical staff is doing rounds in the wards. The girl photographed lost one leg due to artillery injury.

At a refugee hospital in Jordan, kids deal with war, resilience and friendship

Conflict

In a town in Syria, two young boys were exploring outside when they found an electronic device. That device turned out to be an explosive, and they were badly wounded. Fortunately, they were quickly brought to a hospital in neighboring Jordan. But despite their dire circumstances, the two managed to persevere — while their friendship grew stronger than ever.

Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter, an MSF Mental Health Manager from Norway, poses with six-year-old Ebola survivor Patrick.

Ebola forges a bond between a young boy and the psychologist who helped him

Health

With every disease, physical and mental trauma go hand in hand. Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter, a Norwegian psychologist with Doctors Without Borders, helped treat the latter during her time in Ebola treatment centers in West Africa. That’s where she struck up a friendship with Patrick, a 6-year-old patient.