Egypt's deteriorating human rights situation in the past three years has had something of a boiled frog effect to it - things have gotten worse just gradually enough that the country's unfolding problems have been pushed to the margins. 　　But the severe abuses meted out to Egyptian citizens are crushing... More

　　For the past two months, Hamzah Abu Terr has slept on the floor of his home. He gave his bed to his three small children whose room he was forced to destroy earlier this year, to avoid large demolition fines issued by the Israeli municipality. 　　"I had no choice," said... More

　　The United Nations has warned that a looming drought in Syria could push millions more people into hunger and exacerbate a refugee crisis caused by the three-year conflict. 　　Syria's breadbasket northwestern region has received less than half of the average rainfall since September and, if it stays dry up to... More

　　Three years after fleeing their war-torn country, more than half a million Syrian refugees living in Jordan’s urban centres have become more vulnerable and destitute, a new study has revealed. 　　A household assessment released by CARE International on Thursday found that urban Syrian refugees are struggling to cope with inadequate... More

　　Jamil was only 16 years old when Israeli soldiers raided his Bir al-Basha home near Jenin late last year. It was a few hours before dawn when he was awakened by a hard nudge, blindfolded and handcuffed, then taken away in his pyjamas and house slippers. 　　His ordeal took place... More

　　Ibrahim Khattar and his fiancé Daouk were forced to flee Aleppo for Lebanon in late 2012. Months later, the young couple wed and Daouk became pregnant; after the upheaval of the war and a long engagement, they were finally starting a fresh life. 　　But it was not to be. The... More

　　Just outside the Tbeish family home, people began to gather at sunset. Some carried flags, but most held posters of the town's native son, Ayman. A child carried a placard depicting a young man in chains; "Ayman is dying" read another sign, held by an elderly man. 　　In what has... More

　　Evidence is emerging of reprisal killings of 50 Sunni detainees in the custody of Iraqi forces as retaliation for predominantly Sunni militant group, ISIS's take over of parts of Iraq in the last three weeks, say Amnesty International. 　　Survivors and relatives of the victims said that the detainees were extra... More

　　The clock above Gaza Strip resident Ahlam Abed chimed 6:00am and in that hour there was strong knocking on the door of her house. The knocking was one of fear. 　　Behind the door there was a Palestinian family that sought safety from Israel's ceaseless rocket and bomb attacks on the... More

　　On September 16, 2012, at three in the morning, Mohammad Zahir Shah, received a phone call. 　　There were air strikes in the mountains near his home in Lagham province. 　　For the next two hours, Shah and fellow villagers waited for the shelling to come to an end. Then they set... More

　　Amr was arrested in March while having a cup of tea with two friends at a coffee shop in downtown Cairo. 　　Four months later, the 17-year-old remains in jail, accused of involvement with Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, an armed group in the Sinai that has claimed responsibility for a number of... More

　　Before Israel's invasion of Gaza last July, Farah Baker was an ordinary Palestinian teenager growing up in the besieged strip of land by the Mediterranean Sea. But a compelling Twitter feed catapulted her to international fame. 　　"I'm the modern Anne Frank Gaza-Palestine, 16 years old," is the description of Baker's... More

　　At a steep rocky hillside by the road that winds down to the Dead Sea, children of this Palestinian Bedouin community run up and down the rugged slopes, as goats graze on thorny weeds and sheep bleat nearby. 　　The encampment falls on a bare ridge between Jerusalem and Jericho, almost... More