United Arab Emirates
I am an international journalist based in Abu Dhabi with over 20 years of frontline reporting experience, specialising in conflict, migration, and human rights across the Middle East, Europe and South Asia. My work spans war zones—from Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, and Yemen to the U.S.–Mexico border —where I’ve uncovered stories of displacement, political upheaval, and humanitarian crises. As a former senior journalist at The National and former bureau chief at Khaleej Times, I’ve led newsrooms, directed regional coverage, and produced in-depth analysis on geopolitical developments. I was the 2024 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at the New York Times, and The Boston Globe and a visiting scholar at MIT, focusing on forced migration and human rights. Whether embedded with military units or documenting refugee journeys, I aim to humanise complex crises through rigorous, nuanced storytelling. My portfolio includes work for The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and other leading publications.
Americans are continuing to join the Ukrainian army to battle Russia. But Trump's tough stand on Ukraine has been seen as an ideological betrayal by many.
Called the MIT Ukraine program, the initiative aims to leverage MIT's deep strengths in robotics, AI, and sensor technology to support and accelerate demining efforts.
Migrants showing up at the US-Mexico border include Afghans who hope America will come through on its promises to them.
Out of a prewar total of about 20,000 health workers, 500 have been killed in the war, according to the W.H.O., and more than 300 are in Israeli detention, Gaza's health ministry says.
The Israeli prime minister portrayed the war in Gaza as a "clash between barbarism and civilization" and declared "we will win." He called antiwar protesters outside the Capitol "Iran's useful idiots."
Rapid growth is fuelling the need for more labour - and with it the pressure to root out bad actors in the system
Thousands of ISIS militants have been detained indefinitely in prisons guarded by the Syrian Democratic Forces
Shelling across the country is forcing people to seek safety in shelters and in neighbouring nations, with some Syrians having to return to the home they fled years ago
Residents and rescue workers say they found dozens of bodies and most of the buildings destroyed in the Shajaiye neighborhood after Israeli forces ended a two-week offensive against Hamas fighters.
Numerous media outlets in India have reported that 20-year-old Abhijeeth Paruchuru was killed and his body was dumped in a forest in Boston. The reality is different.
Millions of stateless refugees in sprawling camps in Bangladesh renew calls for culpability and a safe path home
The strikes came as the Houthis intensified their campaign in the Red Sea, firing missiles toward two ships on Thursday after crippling a vessel the previous day, maritime security monitors said.
Forced to flee their homeland, 750,000 Muslims have been enduring the appalling conditions of Cox's Bazar camp in Bangladesh. But finding another new home is fraught with danger
With no country recognising the militants' government, Afghans worldwide are left in legal limbo
The ear-piercing silence and the stifling stench of human sweat is what hits you first when you enter the fortified prison cells where thousands of Daesh m..
New sense of vulnerability grips Israelis after October 7 Hamas attack as many question security lapse
Dozens of journalists have been killed since the start of the Israeli-Gaza conflict
According to the UN, an estimated 1.8 million children under the age of five are acutely malnourished. Three-month-old Mohammed's feeble yet agonizing cries tear through the stuffy hospital room in Mukalla, an erstwhile Al Qaeda territory in South Yemen. He is three months old. But his scrawny, malnourished body looks like a skinny bag of bones.
After almost 18 months of hard negotiations, a UN expert team has got permission to visit the ship and assess its safety. Yemen's protracted conflict and the massive hunger crisis it has spawned is one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
Victims recall brush with explosives; UAE-backed de-mining effort makes steady progress. "Look at me. I am alive but half-dead," says 54-year-old Ali Ahmed, clutching his pair of crutches. Ahmed lost his left leg when he accidentally stepped on a mine laid by Houthis before they retreated from Aden when coalition forces moved into the interim-capital to restore the legitimate government of Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Munich: As you enter the blue concrete dorm building run by Caritas for unaccompanied minor refugees, in the heart of the Munich city, the rustic beat of a Pashtun song greets you in the hallway. Huddling on a couch at the entrance of an indoor volleyball court, Jaan Mohammad, 14, from Afghanistan is flipping through his mobile playing his favourite songs.
It is seven in the morning. The first rays of sunshine have landed on the rugged mountains overlooking a cluster of villages that are already awake. There is a slow trickle of people up a steep road leading to a patch of flat ground.
The small town in eastern Gujarat has long buried its ignominious past. The narrow streets that wind through the busy wholesale market on the Gidhwani Road in Godhra is clogged with traffic and sweaty men. Trucks filled with swollen sacks of rice and onions callously rattle past rickety bikes and rickshaws wheezing in the dusty, hot weather.
Discussing the landslide victory of Narendra Modi's BJP in 2019 elections
In a 40-45 minute speech, Gandhi went all guns blazing against the BJP and his chief opponent Narendra Modi. The temperature hovered around 42 degrees and the midday sun was piercing through the colourful shamianas (tents) covering the open ground in Ramseen - a remote village in the Jalore district of Southern Rajasthan.
Yemeni Forces are being trained to drive Al Qaeda out. The sweeping views of Mukalla from atop the rugged mountains wrapping the southern coastal stretch look picture perfect. But for the heavily armed Yemeni forces manning the military outposts from a vantage point, it is crucial to keep round-the-clock watch over the port city that was once rampaged and ruled by Al Qaeda up until 2016.