Conflict

Graphic footage has surfaced of the Burmese government destroying evidence of mass graves of slain Rohingya Muslims after media investigations exposed several sites in Rahkine state.The disturbing footage obtained by The Arakan Project documents mass graves being bulldozed…

Afghanistan’s sole high-security psychiatric facility is saddled with the growing mental health fallout of decades of conflict.The BBC’s Sahar Zand visited the 300-patient Red Crescent Secure Psychiatric Institution, where patients—many former militants—are restrained and…

Decades after the Iran-Iraq war, Iran provides rare testing grounds for the long-term impact of chemical attacks that killed 5000 Iranians and sickened more than 100,000, according to Iran's Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs.A dozen research centers in Iran are…

Diphtheria’s recent resurgence in disparate, crisis-ridden nations represents a “shameful” reality that the bacterial infection, virtually eliminated even in poor countries, is still killing vulnerable populations, writes Michael Edelstein of the Centre on Global Health…

Amid mounting concerns over the risk of nuclear war, North Korea has been quietly amassing the infrastructure needed to create bioweapons as well.From building factories equipped to manufacture microbes "by the ton" and laboratories capable of genetically modifying…

In a world of 22.5 million refugees and counting, retraining displaced medical staff is a necessity, writes Vural Özdemir, MD.But the “inherently political” process has led to a patchwork of approaches, some smarter than others.

The Syrian conflict has taken an especially harsh toll on children and civilians, according to a study of conflict-related deaths from 2011-2016 led by Debarati Guha-Sapir, PhD.By the end of 2016, children accounted for 1 in 4 Syrian civilians killed by barrel bombs.

Persistent discrimination has hampered healing for LGBT victims targeted during Colombia’s half-century internal conflict, writes Sarah Hayley Barrett.LGBT people, who now have the right to marry and adopt in Colombia, are struggling to secure their share of reparations.

The head of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka blasted funding cuts as violence against women in conflict zones grows “worse than anything we’ve ever seen before.” Campaigners highlighted remarkable failures of the UK’s Angeline Jolie-fronted, 13-country violence prevention…

Resurgent violence in Afghanistan is mounting pressure on, and violence against health workers. Fighting has shuttered some clinics entirely, and attacks on health care have more than doubled so far this year—the UN reported 100 incidents through September. The violence…