Politics

Photo:Two young Iraqi boys, their family displaced by the fighting in Mosul, peek out through the zipper of their tent at Hasansham camp, as UNHCR delivers cold weather supplies, including warm blankets and stoves.

Photo:Syrian women and children recently displaced from East Aleppo take shelter at the nearby Al-Mahalij industrial zone.

Photo:Observers from the UN Mission in Colombia and the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People’s Army (FARC-EP), start work at the national headquarters of the Monitoring and Verification Mechanism in charge of overseeing the ceasefire and cessation of host

Photo:On 15 November 2016, a young girl from Mosul takes water from a tap stand at a UNICEF-supported Temporary Learning Space in Hassan Sham Displacement Camp, Ninewa Governorate.

Photo:Front pages of newspapers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, June 11,

NOVEMBER 30, 2016
(Berlin) – Journalists across the Western Balkans face a hostile environment that impedes their ability to do critical reporting.

Photo:A pregnant woman rests on the floor while attending a Sunday mass at a camp for Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent returning or deported from the Dominican Republic on the outskirts of Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti, September 6, 2015.

Photo:A young girl carrying a teddy bear and waving a white flag, heads towards an army outpost in the Samah neighbourhood on the eastern outskirts of Mosul, away from the heavy fighting engulfing the city.

Photo:Outgoing Special Representative and the head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Ellen Margrethe Løj (centre) arrives for her final press briefing in that capacity.

Photo:Fidel Castro Ruz, President of Cuba addressing the General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York in 1979.

25 November 2016

•Monday 21 November – A Reaper engaged three Daesh targets while supporting an Iraqi advance south-east of Mosul.

•Tuesday 22 November – Typhoons and a Tornado destroyed a terrorist desert encampment in western Iraq, including heavy weapons.