By Laith Mushtaq (a cameraman for Al Jazeera) 　　Laith Mushtaq was one of only two non-embedded cameramen working throughout the April 2004 'battle for Fallujah' in which 600 civilians died. 　　Five years on, he recounts the events he witnessed and filmed. 　　"What you saw on your TV sets at... More

　　The global economic crisis is becoming a "human and development calamity" and is threatening to derail international efforts to reduce poverty, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have said. 　　The two financial institutions urged rich countries to step up aid to developing nations, as they completed their spring... More

　　When common people use to say that, “America’s hidden agenda is to counter the nuclear program of Pakistan and take it under their control,” it was termed as the height of fanaticism & slogans of religious fanatics. 　　Since when US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said, “Pakistan’s government had... More

　　US soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan's predominantly Muslim population, video footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to show. 　　Military chaplains stationed in the US air base at Bagram were also filmed with bibles printed in the country's main Pashto and Dari... More

　　A United Nations inquiry into the war in Gaza has found that Israel was to blame for at least seven direct attacks on UN operations - including schools and medical centers. 　　The UN report, commissioned by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said the Israeli military intentionally fired at UN facilities... More

　　Since Israel's closure of the Gaza Strip in 2007, only severely sick Palestinians have been allowed to seek medical attention elsewhere provided they receive authorization and security clearances from the Israeli authorities. 　　However, getting the special permit that allows patients to leave Gaza for medical treatment is a bureaucratic hassle... More

　　Afghanistan's leading human rights organization said Sunday it was investigating the possibility that white phosphorus was used in a U.S.-Taliban battle that killed scores of Afghans. The U.S. military rejected speculation it had used the weapon. 　　White phosphorus can be employed legitimately in battle, but rights groups say its use... More

　　The number of people displaced by fighting in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley has risen to more than 1.4 million, U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said on Monday. 　　"The situation is volatile and changing rapidly," Holmes told reporters at the United Nations. 　　He said extra financial resources were urgently needed to... More

　　Much of Bangladesh's water contains dangerous quantities of arsenic, a toxic compound that cripples human organs and can eventually lead to death. 　　The country is now scrambling to reverse what the World Health Organization (WHO) calls "the largest mass poisoning in history", but it will not be an easy task.... More

　　Photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse which U.S. President Barack Obama does not want released include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Thursday. 　　The images are among photographs included in a 2004 report into prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison conducted by U.S. Major... More

　　The "very dire" humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa for many years, says Oxfam's coordinator for the failed Horn of Africa state. 　　Many of its hundreds of thousands of internally-displaced people, the world's largest such concentration, have little food or shelter, he said. 　　Mogadishu civilians have been... More

　　In 1948 hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from or forced to flee their homeland in the wake of the creation of the state of Israel. 　　While some were forced out by armed Israeli militias - perhaps the most notorious being the Irgun and Stern gangs - others fled... More

　　Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a search-and-detain operation involving hundreds of troops in Hares village... More