Charlie Hoyle @CharlieCHoyle

Weeks of escalating tensions between Iraq’s central government and the country’s northern Kurdistan region following an independence referendum on...

Earlier this month, the United Nations placed the Saudi-led coalition, which has been bombing Yemen since March 2015, on an annual “list of shame” for...

Kurds in Syria are making advances towards their long-coveted goal of consolidating self-rule as the brutal six year war in the country grinds on. In...

According to a report from Human Rights Watch (HRW), Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been recruiting Afghan children living in Iran to...

The Alternative for Germany (AFD) party won dozens of seats and 13 percent of the vote in German elections on Sunday, becoming the first openly far-right...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank returned to school in late August, but Israeli demolitions, access...

More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed and at least 270,000 have fled to Bangladesh since an army crackdown began on August 25, against the...

Amid fierce fighting between ISIS militants and a U.S.-backed coalition, thousands of civilians remain trapped in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, in what...

The United States's main Syrian ally, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), says American military forces could stay in Syria for decades after ISIS's...

This month marks seventy years since British India was partitioned into two countries, India and Pakistan, ending two centuries of colonial rule on the...

Tunisia’s parliament passed new legislation on July 26 to outlaw violence against women, a landmark step in protecting women’s rights in the...

A rift in bilateral ties between Israel and Turkey has deepened amid a crisis at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, with both countries exchanging terse...

Israel’s new security measures at Jerusalem’s flash-point al-Aqsa mosque compound have led to mass Palestinian protests, unintentionally galvanizing...

A deathly silence hangs over Mosul. The ancient metropolis, Iraq’s second-largest city, is now a wasteland of destruction following an eight-month campaign...

In 2014, the British parliament authorized airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq. Just over a year later, it backed a U.S.-led air campaign against the group in...

Egypt sent diesel fuel to the Gaza Strip last week to avert an electricity crisis, which had left residents with just two to three hours of power per...

The burnt-out husk of Grenfell tower, a twenty-four-story social housing high-rise in West London, now stands as a tragic headstone to the bleak class and...

A long-delayed investigation into the foreign funding of extremist groups in Britain may be scrapped by the Home Office, as the sensitive report reportedly...

The arbitrary dismissal of more than 100,000 public sector workers in Turkey following a post-coup crackdown has devastated the lives of tens of thousands of...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a multi-billion dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia on Saturday during his maiden overseas tour, making clear his intention...

Former child soldiers from the civil war in Sierra Leone were used as cheap military labor by private American and British companies in the 2003 Iraq war, part...

On Sunday, May 7, Israeli ministers approved a controversial bill, which would codify Israel’s status as a Jewish state and entrench institutional...

The Palestinian Hamas movement is revising its founding charter. The new political document is the result of four years of discussions and is being touted as a...

On April 23, England celebrated its patron saint, St. George. In recent decades, the event has become a highly charged symbol of far-right politics and a...

For Christians across the Middle East, Easter should be a week of joyous celebration and salvation. But in the region where Christianity was born, it proved a...

After four decades of armed conflict, the Basque separatist group, Eta, unilaterally disarmed last week, marking the historic end of Europe’s last armed...

Brexit has begun. On March 29, British Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50, initiating the two-year process of negotiations to leave the European...

Last week, as London was still reeling from the unfolding details of an attack in its political heartland, the far-right’s machinery moved into gear. A...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget - entitled ‘America First - A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again’ - proposes massive cuts to foreign,...

Imperial nostalgia is a persistent sentiment in contemporary Britain. Fifty-nine percent of the British public is proud of the empire, while nearly fifty...

In 2009, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave a compelling TED talk called “The Danger of the Single Story.” In her presentation, Adichie warned...

The French drama La Haine (Hate) sent shock-waves through France’s political establishment when it was first released in 1995. A tale of social unrest, it...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s casual repudiation of the two-state solution last week disoriented a peace process which has for decades been anchored in the...

A new survey released by London-based think tank, Chatham House, found that majorities in eight European countries supported a ban on immigration from Muslim...

Donald Trump’s presidency has created an extraordinary groundswell of civil society mobilization in support of progressive politics, as hard-fought victories...

Last week, in southern Israel, Israeli forces demolished at least twelve homes and other agricultural structures in the village of Umm al-Hiran, home to 1,000...

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the Gaza Strip last week to protest against power cuts, as a chronic lack of electricity exacerbates a...

Hilarion Capucci, the former Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, died on January 1, 2017 in Rome, aged ninety-four. Monsignor Capucci was...

British Prime Minister Theresa May publicly criticized U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his comments about Israel last week. Kerry's statement came days...

Last week, the British government placed the neo-Nazi group National Action (NA) on an official list of outlawed terrorist groups, the first ruling of its kind...

The far-right leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), Geert Wilders, was convicted by a Dutch court last week of violating anti-discrimination laws during an...

Last week, Slovakia’s parliament passed legislation effectively banning Islam from being recognized as a state religion, a move that reflects the worrying...

The murder of MP Jo Cox this summer was one of the most tragic events in Britain's modern political history. Gunned down and stabbed to death in the street,...

Palestinians have denounced an Israeli bill, which would restrict the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, in mosques across Israel, describing the proposed...

Trump’s election has ignited a chorus of celebration from Europe’s far-right political parties, which have hailed his success as a victory for their own...

Lebanon’s parliament elected Michel Aoun as president last week, ending a two-and-a-half year vacancy that had paralyzed state institutions. A Maronite...

Reports of an upsurge in violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority emerged last week, as the army forcibly displaced hundreds of community members...

The Algerian war of independence (1954-1962) represents a traumatic chapter in the history of both Algeria, as well as its former colonizer, France. During...

Since the 2011 revolution in Egypt forced President Hosni Mubarak from power, a pattern of systematic human rights abuses have plagued the country, adding to...

A new public relations video by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs erases Palestinians from the narrative of the Holy Land, promoting an ahistorical...

Last month, leading Israeli rights group B’Tselem criticized Israel’s investigation into the military’s conduct during the 2014 Gaza war, describing it...

A new short film by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) exposes the critical humanitarian protection gaps that Palestinians fleeing Syria experience as...

Last week, British actor Riz Ahmed wrote a powerful essay in The Guardian on his experience of racial profiling in the post 9/11 world. Entitled ‘Typecast...

Last week, the Palestinian Authority High Court in Ramallah canceled municipal elections scheduled for October 8. The elections would have been the first...

Earlier this month, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its largest ever review into race equality in the United Kingdom. The study,...

Images of the bloodied, battered body of Ahmad Halaweh spread like wildfire on social media last week, causing widespread outrage in Palestinian...

Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes has reached a ten-year high in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing hundreds of people since the...

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he cared more about Palestinians than their own leaders do. The comment came in response to...

Last month, during a live radio interview, an Israeli mayor from the Galilee said he did not want Palestinian citizens of Israel to use public swimming pools,...

Egypt’s Coptic Christian community - the Middle East’s largest Christian minority - has long faced discrimination and sectarian violence. One major...

Life in Israel is segregated along ethnic and religious lines. Palestinians, who make up around twenty percent of Israel's population, largely live and work...

Israel’s Knesset approved a bill last week which will impose a jail term on anyone attempting to dissuade Palestinian-Christians in the country from joining...

The long-awaited Chilcot inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the 2003 U.S.-led Iraq war was published last week. And the findings were damning. The...

The violence of Israel’s occupation is both an instrument of control and display of power. At Qalandiya checkpoint last Friday, July 1, the ugly use of force...

Britain woke up on June 24 a different country with an uncertain future. The general public had voted to leave the European Union by 51.9% to 48.1%. Months of...

On June 16, Jo Cox, a pro-EU Labour MP, was stabbed and shot to death in northern England while preparing to meet her constituents. According to witnesses, her...

As Europe’s football championship kicks off next week, national identity will inevitably take center stage, as flags and other patriotic symbols are...

T-shirts emblazoned with “There’s no such thing as Palestine!!” (in both Arabic and Hebrew) could be seen on attendees at the annual Jerusalem Day parade...

“Your daughter is killed and you don’t get justice. Is she no more than a mosquito? Are our lives worth so little?” Munir al-Hanash recounted the...

A debate about increasing right-wing authoritarianism in Israel has resurfaced again in recent months. This time the charge is being led by senior Israeli...

Every facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is contested. History is disputed, identity is debated, and terminology is challenged. While these narratives...

Labour candidate Sadiq Khan won London’s mayoral elections on Friday, May 6, with an emphatic victory, ending eight years of Conservative rule in Europe’s...

In September 2015, the Palestinian flag was raised at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the first time. The act was largely symbolic, but for...

Ahmad Younes and his family are safe for now, but they never know when their situation might change. As part of the recent EU-Turkey deal on refugees, Ahmad...

The Israeli Ministry of Tourism is removing Palestinian culture from the map, in the most literal sense. Last month, a new English-language guide to...

Hostile comments between Israeli and Palestinian officials last week opened a new front in the moribund peace process: Twitter. The war of words began after...

Jerusalem acquires a chaotic, carnival-like energy during Easter as thousands of Christian pilgrims swamp the city, looking for both redemption and bargain...

This month, a commentary piece in The Nation explored the power of sport, in particular soccer, as a global platform to promote awareness of Palestinian...

Amid a collective sense of despair over the past six months in Palestine, the achievements of one teacher represent a rare opportunity for celebration. On...

Colorful Israeli tourist advertisements dot the grey concrete walls in the walk-through section of the Israeli military checkpoint separating Bethlehem and...

The African-Palestinian neighborhood of Bab al-Majles was once a major economic and social thoroughfare in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City. The...

Thousands of Palestinians amassed at the Rafah crossing in Gaza last week, after a rare three-day opening of the terminal. Most, however, returned to their...

Photographs have the power to change history. They cut through polarized narratives and sanitized statistics. Every so often, images of human tragedies produce...

In a recent interview with Defense News, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) intelligence service, Majid Faraj, declared that PA security forces had...

Israel’s restrictions on the movement of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories, coupled with the centralization of the Palestinian Authority (PA),...

Palestinians in the occupied territories experience land dispossession in a variety of ways. In the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, a stone’s throw...