List of Visual Stories articles
Visual Stories
![A Ukrainian border guard in a camouflaged uniform faces a yellow and white Ukrzaliznytsia diesel train and a red Polish SKPL transport company train on two sets of railroad tracks in Rava-Ruska, Ukraine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ukraine-railways-europe-GettyImages-1730213664.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Ukraine Lays Its Tracks to Europe
By expanding its railways, Kyiv hopes to tie its fate to the rest of the continent.
![A banner depicting the late President Ebrahim Raisi hangs above a gathering of women at the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine in Rey, a conservative southern suburb of Tehran, during the funeral of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Iran-Raisi-death-FP_Tehran_SGlinski6.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Mood From Tehran
As Iran gears up for elections to replace Raisi, the country is divided.
![Arms reach up to sacks of aid as they are unloaded by people atop them on a truck above.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Chad-Sudan-refugee-aid-Ed-ram-photo-24.05.17-CHD-FP-AID-EXP-9.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The World’s Refugee Relief Is Utterly Broken
Millions of Sudanese are fleeing a warzone—and exposing the world’s bankrupt response.
![A woman wearing mittens, a coat, and a winter hat touches a flag with a soldier's face on it to her face. Behind her is a snowy graveyard scene with flowers and Ukrainian flags.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1-Ukraine-widows-Alevtina-paulabronstein_widowukraine24.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Resilience of Ukraine’s War Widows
Perhaps tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have lost their partners in the conflict with Russia. They look to rebuild amid precarity and uncertainty.
![A man fishes at a port near the Lungmen, a nuclear power plant that has suspended its construction, in New Taipei City.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1-tawain-nuclear-energy-GettyImages-1905881605.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Taiwan Can’t Shake Its Nuclear Ghosts
The island’s resistance to a dependable—and desperately needed—source of energy has been shaped by a covert history.
![Pilgrims walk down one of the main roads that lead to the new Ram Mandir](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1-ram-temple-india-Devotees-with-Ram-Flag.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How the Ram Mandir Has Transformed India
To some, Modi’s new temple embodies the revival of a Hindu golden age. To others, it symbolizes the waning of a pluralist nation.
![The shell of a building damaged during the 30 years of occupation in the outskirts of Agdam, Azerbaijan, in November 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Nagorno-Karabakh-environment-mines-homepage.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Land That Was Once Nagorno-Karabakh
A contested environmental legacy looms over three decades of conflict.
![A Karenni Army soldier wearing a camouflage hat and uniform flashes the three-finger pro-democracy salute at a betel nut shop. Another soldier is seen behind him in the crowded space.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Kayah-state-Myanmar-resistance-KarenniArmyMese.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Where the Resistance Rules in Myanmar
In the state of Kayah, a patchwork of anti-regime forces has cooperated to seize territory with surprising success.
![People take photographs of the sunset over the Chinese city Xiamen amid anti-tank barricades from previous conflicts in Kinmen, Taiwan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/china-taiwan-ukraine-war-GettyImages-1480977111.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Does Ukraine Offer Lessons for Taiwan?
Two years in, IR experts are divided on whether the U.S. response to Russia’s war will deter a Chinese invasion.
![A nurse wearing gloves, a surgical mask, a plastic face shield, and other personal protective equipment organizes equipment on a table beside an empty hospital cot in a maternity ward.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/maternal-mortality-united-states-infographic-GettyImages-1297837132.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Is a Statistical Illusion
Accurate counting has produced a seemingly dire death rate.
![A photo collage illustration shows candidates for global elections in 2024 including: India's Narendra Modi; Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum; Russia's Vladimir Putin; Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro; South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa; Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina; the United Kingdom's Rishi Sunak; Taiwan's Lai Ching-te; El Salvador's Nayib Bukele; and Tunisia's Kais Said.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2024-global-election-modi-putin-maduro-sunak-bukele-hasina-ramaphosa-3-2.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Elections to Follow in 2024
Dozens of countries will vote this year. In many of them, democracy is at a tipping point.
![A chart illustration shows past secretaries of state on shorter blue and red lines with a walking, full-body Antony Blinken on the longest line with his hand outstretched to shake with President Xi Jinping (not seen).](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/US-China-secretary-of-state-visits-infographic-leadv2.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
U.S. Engagement With China in 3 Charts
From Kissinger to Kerry, Washington’s top diplomat once visited Beijing regularly. Not anymore.
![An illustrations shows overlapping arrows and pie charts atop an image of container ships in an ocean seen from above.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Us-china-g20-trade-economy-foreign-policy-infographic.png?w=800?quality=80)
How China and the U.S. Are Competing on Trade
Biden’s long-awaited meeting with Xi is a reminder of how most big economies are inextricably tied to both Washington and Beijing.
![Rafet Kurse, a former fisherman, stands next to an abandoned boat on the former shores of Marmara Lake. A dry, dusty landscape stretches into the distance behind him.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Turkey-lake-dams-water-climate-MarmaraLake-FP-Tekelioglu-4.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
King of the Dammed
Turkish President Erdogan’s mega-infrastructure projects are enriching construction companies while reshaping his country’s waterscape for the worse.
![A photo collage illustration shows U.S. political figures plotted on a foreign-policy spectrum from most assertive to least. From left: Dick Cheney, Nikki Haley, Joe Biden, George H.W. Bush, Ron Desantis, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Bernie Sanders.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Foreign-policy-schools-of-thought-3-2-v2-1.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Scrambled Spectrum of U.S. Foreign-Policy Thinking
Presidents, officials, and candidates tend to fall into six camps that don’t follow party lines.
![El Hardi kneels next to his dog Rock, amid tangled piles of rubble, water, and some intact buildings, during their search in Derna, Libya.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/libya-flooding-derna-PHOTO-2023-09-17-15-55-06.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
‘We’ll Start Digging Here’
Unusually virulent weather and poor infrastructure have brought hell to eastern Libya.
![Charmante Kapinga sits on a chair holding her young son as a nurse prepares to weigh him before a routine vaccination at the Mervedi medical center outside Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DRC-vaccinations-outbreak-Diana-Zeyneb-Alhindawi-06777.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Shadow of the Next Pandemic Looms in a Virus Hotspot
Low vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo raises the risk of diseases spreading and adapting undetected.
![A photo collage illustration shows indicted leaders from around the world including U.S. President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Ministor Silvio Berlusconi, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, South African President Jacob Zuma, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Transparent handcuffs swing in the background against a a tick-mark lineup texture.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/indicted-trump-1500x750-hp.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
It’s Actually Common to Indict Leaders of Democracies
From the archives: Trump is just one among dozens of world leaders who have faced criminal charges since 2000.
![Celil Turan stands amid tall dry grass on the snowy shore of Storsjon Lake in Sweden. He wears a heavy jacket and is seen in profile looking into the distance.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1-Sweden-immigration-Turkey-Kurds-NATO-NA_Sweden_23.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Erdogan’s Long Arm Threatens Kurdish Exiles in Sweden
Those who fled Turkey are now facing extradition as Ankara seeks concessions from Stockholm before approving its NATO bid.
![Two soldiers have breakfast outside at a small table next to their cottage near Avdiivka, Ukraine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0-lead-3a-2b.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Blockade Runners Keep War-Torn Ukraine Working
“We’re basically homeless here, but at least we’re home.”
![A timber monastery overlooks the valley as clouds envelop the Chornohora range in the village of Dzembronya near Bystrets, Ukraine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ukraine-Bystrets-Hutsels-Russia-War-Jack-Losh-7a.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
On the Homefront, Families Mourn Ukrainian Fighters
Behind closed doors in western Ukraine, the devastating impact of the distant war becomes clear.
![A Ukrainian volunteer group Brave to Rebuild helps](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ukraine-reconstruction_DSC9614.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Ukraine Starts to Rebuild After Russia’s Rampage
But some damage can’t be fixed by bricks and mortar.
![Families are reunited with their children in Kyiv.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1-ukraine-kyiv-children-reunited-russia-R003578.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Kids Aren’t Alright
Kyiv says more than 16,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia. This is the story of a few who made it home.
![A street in Tarlabasi, a lower-income neighborhood in Istanbul.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1-FP-turkey-economy-inflation-erdogan_Econ_SGlinski-6.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Turkey’s Still Dealing With the Aftershocks—of Erdogan’s Economy
With elections on the horizon, Turkey is trying to stabilize its currency while also dealing with the economic aftershocks of a traumatic earthquake.
![A view from above shows part of the flooded town of Yusufeli in Turkey's Artvin province.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Turkey-dam-flooding-FP_Yusufeli_SGlinski-7.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Turkey’s Dams Bring Power and Heartbreak
Turkish villages are vanishing as the country boosts its reliance on hydropower.
![A monument in the center of Tirana, Albania's capital.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Albania-Russia-Iran-cyberattacks-FP_ALBANIA-Ayman_Oghanna003.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How Albania Became a Target for Cyberattacks
A massive hack led to the expulsion of Iranian diplomats—but Tehran may have had help from Moscow.
![A dove flies to its nest in Cundinamarca, Colombia, on Jan. 31, 2016.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/1-restorative-justice-cambodia-colombia-Reintegration160131-7563.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
When Transitional Justice Falls Short
The abrupt end of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia and the ongoing proceedings in Colombia show how the process doesn’t always serve the victims.
![Russian soldier patrols the Mariupol theater.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1-Russia-Ukraine-War-Soldier-Phone-Mariupol-GettyImages-1239934838.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
A Private Company Is Using Social Media to Track Down Russian Soldiers
Open-source investigations were once potent journalistic tools, but in Ukraine, they’re being used on the battlefield.
![Ukrainian soldiers train outside Kyiv](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1-Ukraine-Russia-War-Kyiv-Training-Military-Paula-Bronstein.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How Ukraine Learned to Fight
Russia’s full-scale war started a year ago. Ukraine’s military started slashing its Soviet roots long before.
![A wounded soldier holds his head.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1-Ukraine-Soldier-Zaporizhzhya-Emre-Caylak-DSC6753.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
‘Killing Was a Game for Russians’
The war in Ukraine is a year old. Here are the stories of some who have survived.
![Kashmir-Chenab-railway-bridge-IMG_5459](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Kashmir-Chenab-railway-bridge-IMG_5459.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How India’s New Bridge to Kashmir Divided a Region
Kashmiris fear an expensive infrastructure project will mean more military domination and demographic change.
![The author stands on the nuclear bombing test fields in Kazakhstan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Semipalatinsk-Polygon-Soviet-Kazakhstan-atom-bomb-1.jpeg?w=800?quality=80)
Can Kazakhstan Bury Its Nuclear Past?
Forgetting the site where Russia became a nuclear power comes with its own risks.
![green-energy-battery-infographic-ev-foreign-policy-illustration-HPb](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/green-energy-battery-infographic-ev-foreign-policy-illustration-HPb.png?w=800?quality=80)
Batteries Are the Battlefield
The next geopolitical contest may be over green technology, and China, for now, is poised to win control of those supply chains.
![Police officers stand outside the scene of a "buy bust" operation in the Philippines that resulted in the shooting death by police of an alleged drug dealer in 2016.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Philippines_drug_killings-Dave-Tacon-13.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Philippines Is Losing Its ‘War on Drugs’
New President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has promised a more compassionate approach, but that’s not what it looks like in the slums of Manila.
![Shaun Tai (right), a laptop salesman, fires an airsoft pistol during firearms training at Camp 66, a firing range and training facility in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 6.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1-lead-12062022_DTacon_Taiwan_Civil_Defense-1.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Taiwanese Flock to Civil Defense Training Ahead of Potential Chinese Invasion
“We have no right to ask others to help us if we are not prepared to defend ourselves,” Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said.
![Mbaaba Kaper, an employee at an illegal timber trafficking warehouse in Yipala, Ghana, that was initially shut down in May 2019, sits on equipment in the warehouse on June 9.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1-NKA_20220609_0195-Mbaaba-Kaper.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How China’s Appetite for Rosewood Fuels Illegal Logging in Ghana
Soaring demand for luxury furniture in Asia is decimating Ghana’s forests while creating a lucrative but environmentally destructive industry.
![Camp 41, a remote scientific research station in the Amazon rainforest, is viewed from above in Brazil on Oct. 18.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1-Amazon-Brazil-rainforest-research-DJI_0107.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Who Owns the Earth’s Lungs?
The battle to save the Amazon goes beyond Brazil.
![Julia Myron walks her 2-month-old daughter with a friend in Irpin.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kyiv-Ukraine-winter-power-outage_winter_FP_SGlinski-6.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Ukraine Braces for a Brutal Winter Under Russian Bombs
Those who return home find shattered houses, no heat, and the worst yet to come.
![A member of Ukraine’s 59th Motorized Brigade walks through the devastation in Posad-Pokrovske in Kherson Oblast.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posad-Pokrovske-Ukraine-_Kherson_SGlinski-17.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Ukrainian Village That Sacrificed Itself for Kherson
One small town in Ukraine held off a Russian attack and helped liberate a key regional capital.
![Volunteers work without electricity in Dnipro.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dnipro-Ukraine-power-emre-caylak-photo_DSC9503.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Ukraine Battles On in the Dark
Russia’s terror campaign against Ukraine’s power plants is cutting off the lights—and energizing resistance.
![Young boys dress up as Ukrainian soldiers and police officers.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kherson-liberation-Ukraine-Russia-war_0005209.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Kherson Is Liberated but Not Yet Freed
Although Ukraine has reclaimed the one provincial capital taken by Russia, there’s still a long road to recovery.
![A stuffed toy sits in the remains of a playground in the heavily damaged Saltivka suburb of Kharkiv, Ukraine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Ukraine-destruction-east-russia-war-vincent-haiges-photo-071122_Ukraine_FP05.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Ukrainians Returning to Liberated Towns Find Utter Destruction
For many coming home to Ukraine’s east, their prewar lives are a distant dream.
![Zahida Khatoon Mugheri stands in front of partially flooded farmland in Pakistan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4-pakistan-flooding-climate-JOLES_FP_floods11.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Pakistan’s Farmers Are Already Bracing for the Next Disaster
In Sindh province, the food insecurity that followed extreme flooding may be a harbinger for the climate future.
![Jordanian Gendarmerie forces arrest a protester in the Jordan Valley.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Jordan-protest-dissent-police-arrest-JOR_ForeignPolicy_SherbelDissi_2022-11.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Awash in U.S. Aid, Jordan Escalates Repression
A street vendor’s plight highlights violations that Washington would prefer to ignore.
![A woman passes a mural supporting the Russian Federation in Mitrovica, Kosovo.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Kosovo-Russia-Serbia_BATCH1-Ayman_Oghanna010.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
In Northern Kosovo, Tensions Threaten to Boil Over
The Kosovo government’s laws on ID cards and license plates have enraged ethnic Serbs and heightened tensions between the young nation’s fractured communities.
![A man ties a piece of cloth over a demonstrator’s face in Sudan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sudan-protest-coup-anniversary-FP_ElaYokes_Sudan_002.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Sudan’s Citizens Refuse to Give Up
One year after a military coup, activists continue to mobilize despite deadly crackdowns.
![Members of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service rest.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Izyum-Ukraine-mass-burial_DSC1348.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Forest of the Dead
Another mass grave in Ukraine reveals the horrors of Russia’s occupation.
![People arrive at the Zaporizhzhia registration center in Ukraine](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kherson-Ukraine-Emre-Caylak-photos_DSC3419.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Putin’s War Drives Refugees From Occupied Kherson
Fighting in Ukraine’s south has caused an exodus.
![Athenians swim on a rocky beach along the Athenian Riviera.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1-GREECE_Foreign_Policy_BATCH1-Ayman_Oghanna004.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Greece Is for Tourists
As foreigners flood the country, ordinary Greeks can’t afford the sacred rite of a summer holiday.
![A man passes a group of veiled women in Kabul](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Afghanistan-anniversary-Stefanie-Glinski-22.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
One Year Later, Afghanistan Is a Land of Shrugs and Sadness
The return of the Taliban may have ended the fighting. The suffering goes on.
![Men in Kabul's Deh Sabz district work on the back of a coal truck.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Coal-Afghanistan-Stefanie-Glinski-photo3.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Taliban Wage War Over Coal in Northern Afghanistan
The battle for cash pits the Kabul extremists against Hazara locals.
![A man views congestion in Kathmandu, Nepal](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1-Kathmandu-nepal-EV-electric-energy-manason.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Nepal’s Big EV Bet
Is it a genuine push toward a cleaner—and safer—nation?
![Members of the Taliban stand in front of a Blackhawk helicopter.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Afghanistan-earthquake-Stefanie-Glinski-PHOTO-2022-06-24-09-38-24-2.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Afghans Battle Another Blow After Big Earthquake
The Taliban can’t govern in normal times, let alone disaster response.
![Priest Oleg helps Vuhledar evacuee Katya into his van](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2-ukraine-Vuhledar-emre-kaylak-DSC6771.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Civilians on Ukraine’s Front Lines Face Food and Water Shortages and Worse—Lack of Medication
The battle for the Donbas could well be the deadliest phase of the war.
![Ukrainian refugees at a relative's house in Moldova.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ukraine-moldova-refugees-JOLES_FP_moldova19.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Moldova Welcomes Ukrainian Refugees but Fears for Its Own Future
The country has offered solidarity to neighbors fleeing Russia’s war. Will it get more support from the EU?
![Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg and Polish President Andrzej Duda hold hands as they walk in front of the “Death Wall” during the annual International March of the Living through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on April 28. Kacper Pempel/Reuters](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Poland-Holocaust-March-Survivor-Auschwitz-Reuters-2022-04-28-RC29WT9IF8PZ.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
![Street musicians in Lviv, Ukraine](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1-Lviv_FP_SGlinski-12.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Lviv Becomes the Center of Ukraine’s Resistance
With the east in flames, the western Ukrainian city houses refugees, aid workers, and diplomats seeking to turn the tide of war.
![Evacuees from Mariupol, Ukraine, at a shopping center on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1-Mariupol-Zaporizhzhia-ukraine-russia-emre-caylak-DSC3844.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
‘The World Must Know What Happened to Us’
After weeks of siege by the Russians, some in Mariupol are finally escaping the bombs, the burning buildings, and the bodies.
![Ukrainian army officer Yaroslav Chepurniy](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1-Mykolaiv-ukraine-russia-war-stefanie-Glinski-6O1A2009.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Russia’s Road to Odesa Runs Through Mykolaiv
War is intensifying along the Black Sea coast, with one key city standing in the invaders’ way.
![Kharkiv residents sleep on the ground in the Kharkiv metro station on March 10.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1-Urkaine-Russia-Emre-Caylak-Underground-Kharviv-DSC1991.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Life Underground in Bomb-Shattered Kharkiv
Two weeks into the war, residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city are still surviving in squalid shelters.
![A destroyed house after a Russian attack in Markhalivka, Ukraine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1-Stefanie-Glinski-ukraine-russia-crisi-kyiv-6O1A1699.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Kyiv Braces for the Onslaught
Ukraine’s capital still stands, even as its suburbs have been mauled by indiscriminate Russian strikes.
![Men walk near the Torkham border crossing.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Pakistan-Afghanistan-refugees-border-joles_foreignpolicy01.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Afghan Refugees Get Cold Welcome in Pakistan
The Taliban takeover has pushed many Afghans over the border and into another kind of limbo.
![The Azerbaijani army patrols the streets of Shusha on Sept. 25, 2021, under a sign that reads: "Dear Shusha, you are free. Dear Shusha, we are back. Dear Shusha, we will resurrect you. Shusha is ours."](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Nagorno-Karabakh-Shusa-tourism-Emre-Caylak-photo_DSC1361.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
From the Ruins of War, a Tourist Resort Emerges
Shusha was the key to the recent war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Now Baku wants to turn the fabled fortress town into a resort.
![A health worker from a women's clinic in Islamabad.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Women-in-Pakistan-Births-Contraceptives-Abortion-Pakistan17.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Global Gag Rule’s Long Shadow in Pakistan
Biden repealed major restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance, but anti-abortion ideology still limits crucial reproductive care in the places that need it most.
![A man prays for a relative who died from COVID-19 at a crematorium in New Delhi on April 20. Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/India-GettyImages-1313476512.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
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In Colombia, the Pandemic Provides Fertile Ground for Illegal Armed Groups
Criminal bands and fighters are capitalizing on fear to expand their control in vulnerable communities.
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In Kashmir, a Year of Exploding Memories
A year after the state’s special status was revoked, peace remains a distant hope.
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How the Coronavirus Crisis Is Silencing Dissent and Sparking Repression
A look at how protests, political violence, and conflict have played out during the pandemic.
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