Taking over the enclave, forcing Palestinians to leave and preventing them from returning would be clear violations of international law, experts say.

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.

Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. Now, those businesses are accusing them of defamation.

The discovery of Ronald Ojeda’s body encased in concrete in Chile has raised new fears over how far President Nicolás Maduro will go to keep his stranglehold on Venezuela.

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 this week.

President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is growing about attacks on former low-level members of the Assad regime’s forces.

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will be hard to achieve in a vulnerable, divided and battered country.

Human rights organizations and residents describe the situation in the enclave as getting more desperate. Here is a closer look.

They make us love them. No matter how closed our hearts, no matter how battered and crusted over with scars.