While Tatevik Khachatrian was forced to leave everything behind one year ago, Vasila Mammadova was hopeful that, for the first time in 30 years, there was a chance she might get everything back.

As both sides of the island mark the war that began on 20 July 1974, it is in the knowledge that almost nothing has changed.

In the Sixties the British government expelled them from their island. Exiled to the UK, they’ve never given up hope of returning to their island. ‘As more and more of our elders are dying, it is important to preserve our culture.’

A photo report on the territory bordering South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions. Photographer Vitaly Malyshev traveled to the “Zone of Fear” to see what marks the 2008 war has left on the area.

It’s still not clear how many people were killed at Barrio Chino on 24 June 2022. As many as 77 people, most of them young men who had fled their homes in Sudan and South Sudan, are still missing. A reconstruction by Ben Ehrenreich.

Western Sahara’s former colonizer has shifted toward effectively recognizing Morocco’s illegal occupation of the territory.

Kiwi pilot Phillip Mehrtens was unlucky–he was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was taken hostage by a rebel group in West Papua. The Detail takes a closer look at West Papua’s complicated independence struggle.

Today in Europe there are 6.5 million people living in countries that, according to the rest of the world anyway, do not exist. These would-be republics’ borders, born out of the chaos of the fall of the Soviet Union, are unrecognized by the international family of nations, as is their legal right to dictate the shape of their futures.