Yogita Limaye

Yogita Limaye South Asia and Afghanistan correspondent BBC Gurpreet Singh hoped to enter the US before President Trump’s crackdown began Gurpreet Singh was handcuffed, his legs shackled and a chain tied around his waist. He was led onto the tarmac […]

More than 80 Afghan women who fled the Taliban to pursue higher education in Oman now face imminent deportation back to Afghanistan, following the Trump administration’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid programmes. Funded by the US Agency for International Development

Aamir Peerzada/BBC This “reconciliation centre” in Damascus is run by rebel group HTS On the night of 6 December, Mohammed el-Nadaf, a soldier in the Syrian army, was at his position in Homs. As rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

Aamir Peerzada In Damascus, members of Assad’s Alawite sect now fear reprisals Driving into Mezzeh 86, a working-class neighbourhood in the west of Damascus, we are waved through a checkpoint manned by fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Buildings are

Getty Images Mourners carried Mazen Al-Hamada’s coffin through the streets of Damascus on Thursday Warning: This article contains graphic details of torture “We gave our blood and soul to the revolution,” crowds chanted, as they carried Mazen Al-Hamada’s coffin through

Aamir Peerzada/BBC Tawfiq Diam’s wife and four children were killed in a chemical attack Tawfiq Diam is emotional because it’s the first time he’s been able to speak freely about what happened to his family back in 2018, in Douma

Supplied Afghans wait to attempt to cross into Turkey, in a still from a video sent to the BBC by a people smuggler The first time Azaan made the jump across the wall, he broke his arm. Braving the 20ft

See evidence of drone strikes in Kherson authenticated by BBC Verify – some are too graphic to show Just before noon one day Serhiy Dobrovolsky, a hardware trader, returned to his home in Kherson in southern Ukraine. He stepped into

Imogen Anderson/BBC “We have not been able to stabilise the front,” says Oleksandr “This is the most dangerous of all front lines,” says Oleksandr, the head of a medical unit for the Ukrainian army’s 25th Brigade. We are in the

BBC/Imogen Anderson Baby Bibi Hajira was fighting for her life when the BBC visited Warning: This story contains distressing details from the start. “This is like doomsday for me. I feel so much grief. Can you imagine what I’ve gone