Conflict Pictures

Protesters wearing bizarre masks demonstrate against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term.

David Sim May 12, 2015

Akintunde Akinleye photographed former Boko Haram strongholds in north-eastern Nigeria.

David Sim May 11, 2015

Demonstrators torched cars and smashed bank windows during a protest against the opening of Milan's Expo 2015.

David Sim May 01, 2015

Thousands of police manned barricades and closed streets to stop demonstrations at Taksim.

David Sim May 01, 2015

AFP photographer Bülent Kiliç wins The John Faber Award for his series on the anti-government protests in Kiev.

David Sim Apr 30, 2015

Reuters photographer Asmaa Waguih documents women Kurdish fighters on Mount Sinjar in Iraq.

David Sim Apr 30, 2015

Baltimore is two cities: the crime-ridden area from The Wire, and a gleaming city on the waterfront.

David Sim Apr 29, 2015

Members of El Salvador's rival MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs are put in the same prison, ending policy of segregation.

David Sim Apr 22, 2015

South African police had to disperse immigrants armed with machetes in an area east of Johannesburg.

David Sim Apr 17, 2015

Text message claims "Zulu people are coming to town to kill every foreigner on the road".

David Sim Apr 15, 2015

At least seven dead as Islamist militants blast their way into a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

David Sim Mar 27, 2015

An estimated 40,000 people have returned to Kobani, with thousands more arriving every week.

David Sim Mar 25, 2015

Battles against terror groups such as Isis and Boko Haram pushed death tolls up.

David Sim Mar 20, 2015

Syrian rebels unveil the Volcano, a weapon in the fight against President Bashar Assad's forces.

David Sim Mar 10, 2015

Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias fight to retake the city of Tikrit from Isis.

David Sim Mar 09, 2015

Andrew Burton photographs families living in a basement shelter in the Petrovskiy area of Donetsk.

David Sim Mar 02, 2015

Chadian troops in northern Nigeria show off Boko Haram prisoners, weapons and military vehicles.

David Sim Feb 27, 2015

Pro-Russian rebels watch as Ukrainian prisoners search through the ruins to recover dead comrades.

David Sim Feb 26, 2015

Most of Debaltseve's 26,000 residents fled, but up to 5,000 stayed, many too elderly to flee.

David Sim Feb 25, 2015

Ukrainian troops, covered in dirt and looking exhausted, retreat from Debaltseve

David Sim Feb 18, 2015

Rockets kill civilians and soldiers in Ukrainian government-held town of Kramatorsk.

David Sim Feb 10, 2015

Photographs show reported barrel bomb attacks on rebel-held areas of Syria.

David Sim Feb 10, 2015

Syrian forces repeatedly pound the rebel-held area of Douma in response to Damascus attack.

David Sim Feb 09, 2015

Bodies of alleged Islamic State fighters lie in the rubble of destroyed town Kobani.

David Sim Jan 30, 2015

Photos of Kobani show entire blocks levelled after Kurdish fighters liberated the town from Isis.

David Sim Jan 28, 2015

Ukrainian POWs were paraded at the scene of a bus attack that killed at least eight in Donetsk.

David Sim Jan 22, 2015

The statue on Place de la Republique in Paris has been transformed into a tribute to the victims.

David Sim Jan 12, 2015

The latest photos of the unfolding hostage drama at a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

David Sim Jan 09, 2015

French anti-terrorist police have surrounded Dammartin-en-Goele, a small industrial town.

David Sim Jan 09, 2015

Thousands of people join rallies in memory of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.

David Sim Jan 08, 2015