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Shafi Karimi is an Afghan journalist living in exile in Paris. He is a well-known TV host in Afghanistan but, due to threats to him and his family, Karimi was forced to leave the country and start his life and...

100 photos of Ukraine is our traditional annual summary material. We curated the most striking photos taken by Ukraїner photographers in 2025.

The images in this collection tell the story of contemporary Ukraine: how the prolonged war is reshaping the...

As Russia wages war on Ukraine, the architects of its expansionist ideology are spearheading another battle on Europe’s bookstore shelves.

On the eve of the third anniversary of Kherson’s liberation from the Russian occupation, we walk through its centre and suburbs, descend into shelters, and speak with doctors, soldiers, children, and those who still tend roses — to see and...

Sudan’s long, fragmented war entered a new and deadly phase in October 2025, when the Rapid Support Forces seized El Fasher, the capital of Darfur. The city’s fall followed 18 months of siege and famine — a brutal climax in...

Soft clay slides between their fingers, taking on one shape after another, to the rhythmic hum of the potter’s wheel. Under strong hands, a small cylinder first appears; then, in a few seconds, it takes on the shape of a...

Just before the checkpoint into the city of Chernihiv, I get off the minibus to meet Lesia, who will accompany me through the northern Ukrainian region, bordering Russia and Belarus. Lesia is a well-known figure in the area — young,...

Twice in the span of a decade, Russia launched brutal wars to crush Chechnya’s bid for independence. From the scorched ruins of Grozny in early 1995 to the infernal razing over the winter of 1999-2000, followed by the unrelenting national...