After more than two months of heavy fighting the battle for Mosul continues unabated, even as the news media's gaze has long ago moved on to other matters. Over 2,000 civilians have already died in the fighting while 100,000 more have been displaced....
No one knows the actual number of people who have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Europe. The figure is sure to be in excess of 20,000, making this the deadliest border crossing in the world. The larger disasters are ...
The panda is much more than just an iconic animal associated with China, instantly recognisable by its distinctive black fur patches around its eyes and ears. It has also been a vital diplomatic tool for the Communist government ever since Richard ...
With its mushrooming cities, power-hungry heavy industry and steadily, if less rapidly, growing economy, China's demand for power appears unstoppable. Yet while the country burned its way through billions of tonnes of coal, a fuel it is well endowed ...
The South China Sea is one of the most important maritime environments in the world. Some $ 5.3 trillion worth of goods are shepherded along its shipping lanes every year, accounting for around a third of maritime traffic worldwide. The Sea is also ...
While conflict diamonds have made their way into the news headlines and become the target of high profile campaigns to ban their use, the jade industry has largely escaped such scrutiny. Yet in Myanmar's northern Kachin state, a mountainous and ...
Manila North Cemetery, opened in 1904, is one of the oldest and largest in the Philippines. Its elaborate mausoleums and endless rows of tombs are home to an estimated one million dead - and a few thousand living. The final resting place of ...
Soon after dawn, Win Myint Oo starts a generator and squats on a bamboo platform suspended under a 40-foot, jury-rigged derrick made out of three steel poles and bamboo struts lashed together with rope. The generator powers a winch that lowers a blue...
In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the presidential election in the Philippines with strident promises that he would eradicate drug use and associated criminality by killing thousands of dealers and users. Since then, almost 12,500 people have died, ...
Shishmaref, Alaska is a remote village of about 600 people located 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle, flanked by the Chukchi Sea to the north and an inlet to the south. It sits atop rapidly melting permafrost and in the last decades, the island's ...
Motorcycle culture is deeply embedded in the modern American identity. It is usually associated with outlaws, gangsters, machismo and an independent lifestyle reflecting what many in America feel to be the nation's roots. This culture was made ...
Since April 2016, thousands of native Americans and their supporters have been converging on a site in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline which is supposed to bring fracked crude oil...
Heading south, past the Salton Sea where farmland turns to dusty towns, following the tyre tracks of trailers and camper vans deep into the parched desert, a landscape of shabby vehicles that have taken root in the ground emerges. For years, a ...
Based in Istanbul, Ivor Prickett has been covering the conflict in Iraq and its ripple effects across the region for the past two years. Some of the most brutal fighting to regain parts of Iraq from Islamic State (IS) took place during the battle ...
In the November 2014, Panos photographer Mads Nissen and his colleague Jacob Svendsen from the Danish newspaper Politiken travelled to Sierra Leone to document the ongoing Ebola emergency that was to claim almost 4,000 lives in the West African ...
An agreement between the EU and Turkey in March 2016 stipulated that any migrants or refugees arriving from Turkey in Greece would be sent back to Turkey if they didn't apply for asylum in Greece or if their claim was rejected. The agreement was a ...