As many as 300,000 displaced Gazans streamed northward on Jan. 27, after Israel reopened the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip. Carrying their belongings in plastic bags and flour sacks

Green is the colour Kareem remembers most. In Rafah, the southern Gaza city where he grew up, there were green fields, farms and countryside. He remembers it being very calm and everything from his sc

DARFUR HAS ONCE MORE become the center of a wave of violence in Sudan’s brutal civil war, sparking warnings of a repeat of the genocide that blighted the region two decades ago. After a suffocating 18

Christmas in Gaza is like everywhere else and nowhere else. At the branch of the YMCA International in Gaza City, switching on the lights of the Christmas tree was a major event attended by hundreds,

I don’t know my own birthday. My family and I fled Somalia when I was just a child, after my brother was killed by a stray grenade in the war. In the chaos of escape, my birth certificate and our fami

It’s a tough job illustrating the ever-changing news landscape with photography that will stop a reader in their tracks. Here, Peter Dench compiles a round-up of the best images that picture editors of newspapers and of media outlets have seen in 2025