In regions where the fighting and suffering has been the most intense, voters said “yes” to the accord by overwhelming margins.

U.S. and Iraqi military strategists are preparing for a final drive on Mosul, hoping to dislodge Islamic State militants from their last stronghold in Iraq. But how well are they planning for the inevitable impact of that offensive on the city’s residents?Hani El-Mahdi is the Iraq country repr

The fall of Mosul could mean anywhere between 1 to 1.5 million more displaced people, a figure one aid worker bluntly calls “overwhelming.”

The borough’s Bangladeshi community remained tense more than a week after two men were gunned down a few blocks from a humble storefront mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens on Aug. 13. Jewel Chowdhury, the general secretary of the Jalalabad Association of America, says the Muslim c

“If a person comes from behind and he shoots someone dead and he does not ask for watches, he does not ask for money, what is it? If it is not a hate crime, what would it be?”

“Pregnancies with problems don’t need to be referred for abortion, they need to be taken care of at the hospitals, and at Catholic hospitals they are taken care of.”

Deploring a campaign of extrajudicial killings that has, according to local media, claimed more than 800 lives, the president of the Philippines bishops' conference issued a direct challenge to President Rodrigo Duterte and his supporters.

How many already suffer from dramatic-post stress disorder?

The killings have stoked fear and anger in the largely Bangladeshi Muslim community in Queens and Brooklyn.

"From a generation of drug addicts shall we become a generation of street murderers?"