Conflict Pictures

Chilling photos of bunkers, bombs and bodies inside Raqqa after Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters liberated the city from Islamic State (Isis/Daesh) militants.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced they have defeated Islamic State (Isis, Daesh) in its former capital after a four-month battle.

Iraq's dramatic move against the Kurds came soon after they had fought side by side to rid the country of Islamic State (Isis/Daesh).

Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer spent two weeks in Bangladesh documenting the lives of some of the more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar since late August.

By day and by night they come, an endless tide of humanity streaming out of Myanmar into Bangladesh. Rohingya Muslim men, women and children hoping to find sanctuary in one of the poorest regions of a poor country.

More Rohingya refugees have chosen to trek for days in monsoon weather to find sanctuary in one of the poorest regions of a poor country. Yet the Myanmar government denies ethnic cleansing and says "clearance operations" have ended.

Iraqi troops and Shia militia have recaptured Hawija, the last Isis stronghold in northern Iraq. Now comes another crisis for Iraq and its neighbours: Kurdish independence.

Iraqi forces and Shia paramilitaries have entered the town of Hawija, one of just two pockets of territory still under control of Islamic State (Isis/Daesh) in Iraq.

Photos of the battle for Raqqa, where the jihadists' last strongholds are a hospital and stadium, with hostages in both.

The week's best photos, from Rohingya refugees and Mexico City earthquake, to Invictus Games, battle for Raqqa and Take a Knee protests.

Reporters have finally been allowed to venture into Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, formerly home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled into Bangladesh.

Syrian Democratic Forces have seized 80 to 90 percent of the city and have hemmed the jihadists into a few districts in the north of the city.

The number of refugees arriving in Bangladesh since 25 August has been estimated at 480,000 – 60% of them children.

Young Rohingya refugees' drawings are filled with traumatic scenes such as people being shot or burned alive by the military.

The fighting in Marawi is so intense that it took soldiers a whole week just to cross one street in the embattled city.

A family with a tiny baby living in a concrete pipe, and another family burying a 70-year-old woman who died just days after they'd carried her all the way from Myanmar.

More than 1,600 exhibitors from over 40 countries are displaying their latest weapons and defence systems at Defence & Security Equipment international (DSEi).

The five winning projects cover a wide range of topics, from the deepening crisis in Venezuela to sperm smuggling in Gaza.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of possible ethnic cleansing and a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Among new arrivals, about 16,000 are school-age children and more than 5,000 are under the age of five, aid workers say.

Twenty-six-year-old American freelance journalist Christopher Allen was shot dead as he reported on the fight.

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Two of the attackers were killed in a firefight with soldiers, while eight were arrested, including at least three from the military.

There are plans to rebuild Aleppo's great medieval mosques, souks, bath houses and citadel "with the same stones where we can".

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says he is prepared to wait for a year for the end of the siege which has killed more than 500 people.

A dispute over metal detectors at Jerusalem's Noble Sanctuary-Temple Mount compound is escalating into a new showdown between Israel and the Muslim world.

In Kyar Gaung Taung village, the journalists insisted on speaking to villagers away from security forces, and allegations of abuses by troops emerged almost immediately.

"Of all the wars I have covered in various countries, Mosul has been the worst."

In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica.

Iraqi forces repeatedly used coalition air strikes in Mosul, often to kill teams of just two or three Isis fighters armed with light weapons.