Tainted metal scrap sourced from conflict zones can ultimately become finished steel used by some of Europe’s top firms. The Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism Association (SIRAJ) and El País co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. Ahmad* is 11 and has lost his hacksaw – or …

Recent clashes between government forces and French-speaking fighters in northern Syria have rekindled concerns about military and social integration Damascus, Syria – A group of Uyghur men laughed uproariously over a Syrian friend’s seemingly vain requests for a waiter to take better photos of them together, as they shared food …

Of Iraq’s 46 million people, just over 12 million cast ballots, producing a nationwide turnout of 56.11%, one of the highest in recent years. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s Reconstruction and Development Coalition has established a substantial lead across eight provinces in Iraq’s parliamentary elections held on 11 November, according …