Laila Haidari ist 44 Jahre alt, hatte ein Restaurant in Kabul. Das machten ihr die Taliban dicht, weil sie eine Frau ist. Jetzt bildet sie andere zu Schneiderinnen aus. Sie riskiert ihr Leben – doch sie ist nicht allein.
For two years, Iraq’s mass protest movement has been plagued by unsolved murders. As October’s election nears, they are making common cause with those who previously opposed them.
Ehab was killed in his car. Abbas was shot on his way to a funeral. Zahra faces constant death threats. In Iraq, young activists are getting hunted down, one by one.
Though the battle to remove Trump from office is over, the war on truth is still being waged on other fronts, with Germany the hub of QAnon fantasists outside the Anglosphere.
Homosexuellen drohen in Uganda bis zu 14 Jahre Haft und die Regierung plant sogar die Einführung der Todesstrafe. Menschen wie Beyonce bleibt nur, sich zu verstecken. Eine Videoreportage für das Projekt Globale Gesellschaft.
The terror group has lost its land, but not its ability to wage a war of terror and intimidation, and the Iraqi government’s corruption is helping it recruit.
Nach dem Sieg über die Terrororganisation Islamischer Staat sind tausende Familien getöteter IS-Kämpfer in Flüchtlingscamps gestrandet. Sie sind Geächtete im Land und im Lager.
Der Gazastreifen gleicht einem Freiluftgefängnis: Die Bewohner können das Gebiet nur schwer verlassen, von außen darf kaum jemand hinein. Studierende lernen unter extremen Bedingungen – und träumen von der Freiheit.
Police Chief Jovie Espenido made a name for himself in the Philippines for his brutal but effective fight against organised crime. We met the devout Christian in the town of Ozamiz, which he rules with an iron fist.
Die Schammar sind einer der größten Stämme im Norden Syriens. Sie haben gegen den IS gekämpft und sich auch gegen Machthaber Assad behauptet. Jetzt könnte der Bürgerkrieg in Syrien zu Ende gehen und die Schammar wollen dabei eine Rolle spielen.
Eventually the stench of death was too much even for ISIS. They covered it, mined it. The Iraqi government won’t touch it. The families of the disappeared have no place to turn.
In northern Syria, Kurds have carved out an autonomous region. But with the US decision to pull its troops out, the region is under threat from the Assad regime and from Turkey. Some women in the town of Derrick are preparing for a possible attack.
Bitter cold, few comforts, civilians that give their position away and no end in sight for the Ukrainian soldiers pitched against separatists backed by Russia.
In der philippinischen Stadt Marawi kämpft die Armee gegen islamistische Rebellen. Auf dem angrenzenden Campus geht der Uni-Betrieb weiter – an den Lärm der Flugzeuge und Bomben haben sich die Studenten gewöhnt.
The crackdown on drugs is a hallmark of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. But as the death tolls mounts, many Filipinos are speaking out – including the Catholic Church, one of the country’s most powerful institutions.
An ISIS offshoot spreads terror in the Philippines by taking over the city of Marawi on the island of Mindanao in 2017. As the military tries to retake the city, a deadly siege ensues.
After the terror of ISIS, returning home is still a distant prospect for thousands of Yazidis. Now they have become pawns as Baghdad and Erbil bicker over their homeland of Sinjar.
Der “Islamische Staat” zerstörte die Universität von Mossul, die zweitgrößte des Irak. Dozenten und Studenten machten trotzdem weiter – im Exil. Jetzt wollen sie zurückkehren.
Iraqi prime minister Haider Al Abadi declared the city of Mosul liberated in July 2017. But that diesn’t mean life has returned to normal for its residents — or for the men who fought to reclaim it from ISIL.
The plight of the Yazidis brought the United States back into the Iraq War when Obama moved to save them on Mount Sinjar. But three years on, they’ve got little hope of going home.
And estimated 400,000 civilians remained in the ancient city centre as Iraqi forces closed in on ISIS in Mosul. Human shields in the hands of a brutal terror group.
As the ‘final offensive’ to retake the western half of the city begins, the underground networks of ISIS continue to attack in the ‘liberated’ eastern half.
When an elderly man bursts into tears after realising that ISIL’s reign of terror has come to an end in his neighbourhood, one soldier walks up to embrace him, while another offers him a cigarette.
The mosque contained what Muslims and Christians believe was the tomb of Jonah. It also held a shrine said to have contained a tooth from the whale that, according to Islamic, Christian and Jewish scripture, carried Jonah inside it for three days.
As Iraqi forces in Mosul engage in some of the fiercest fighting yet against ISIL, Florian Neuhof takes a look at life inside the Qayyarah Air Field West – a key launching pad as anti-ISIL coalition forces seek to flush the extremists out of their last Iraqi stronghold.
Families in liberated parts of Mosul are still exposed to the dangers of war, but fear their suffering will be even worse in the displacement camps which are already beyond capacity.
The site of the ancient city of Nimrud was destroyed and plundered by ISIS, just one of the region’s archeological treasures to fall victim to the terror group.
Once mistrusted, Iraq’s Special Operations Forces have become viewed as heroes for their success in defeating ISIL. Time spent with the Golden Division as they battle to liberate Mosul in their toughest fight yet.
As Baghdad is rocked by deadly explosions and political chaos, “drifting” is an increasingly popular way for young men in the Iraqi capital to let off steam.
In Qayyarah, a town on the Tigris crucial to the recapture of Mosul, residents celebrate being freed from ISIL but now suffer the health effects from the extremist’s scorched earth policy.
With thousands of displaced families in Fallujah escaping the horrors of ISIL, the Kurdish town of Shaqlawa has seen its population swell – yet still welcomes the Sunni Arabs afraid of sectarian hatred in Iraq’s south.
Many spent thousands of dollars on the perilous journey to Europe only to find themselves on a flight back to Iraq a few months later, their dreams of a better life away from war and upheaval shattered by the realities of the refugee crisis.