The U.S. Office for Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has allowed the Belarusian airline Belavia to purchase parts and new aircraft on September 11, which will open Russian companies the opportunity to purchase parts for their aircraft bypassing sanctions through Belarus. Russian civil aviation was seriously damaged due to sanctions, and …

BIRN details the creation of a shadowy, heavily-armed and potentially illegal police unit at the exclusive, 24-hour beck and call of the man who led Bosnia’s border police for nine years and is now a fugitive from arrest. On December 30, 2014, the then head of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s border …

As Nizam* sped toward Italy on a crowded migrant boat, he filmed what he believed was the final stretch of his harrowing journey. The 21-year-old house painter from Bangladesh held up his phone, framing his face before panning to roughly 50 others packed onto the white fiberglass vessel. Behind him, …