Conflict Pictures

Over 19,000 children are thought to have been recruited, often by force, by armed groups on all sides of South Sudan's brutal civil war.

David Sim Feb 08, 2018

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 384 people, including 94 children, have been killed in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region since 29 January.

David Sim Feb 07, 2018

The Berlin Wall has now been dismantled for as long as it stood - 28 years, two months and 26 days, or 10,316 days in total.

David Sim Feb 05, 2018

Turkey's president says Operation Olive Branch is progressing "successfully" and will continue until the last "terrorist" is eliminated.

David Sim Jan 24, 2018

Emir was one of six children killed by Syrian and Russian air strikes on Eastern Ghouta on Monday. Since 29 December, 126 people, including 29 children, have lost their lives.

David Sim Jan 09, 2018

The attack, which involved at least three explosions, occurred during a panel discussion on the anniversary of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

David Sim Dec 28, 2017

A few desperately sick children have been evacuated to hospitals in Damascus from the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, but many more remain.

David Sim Dec 27, 2017

IBTimes UK asked 12 Getty Images photojournalists to choose their most memorable photo of the year and tell us the story behind the picture.

David Sim Dec 21, 2017

Israeli police troopers shot a man wearing what looked like a suicide bomb vest after he stabbed an officer near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank.

David Sim Dec 15, 2017

IBTimes UK looks back at how the fight to rid Iraq and Syria of the jihadists played out across the year, in 100 powerful photos.

David Sim Dec 15, 2017

Our 2017 gallery kicks off with Barack Obama shedding a tear and ends with his successor inflaming the Middle East.

David Sim Dec 13, 2017

Reuters photojournalists tell the stories behind some of 2017's most memorable news images, and discuss their impact, both on the world and on themselves.

David Sim Dec 11, 2017

People set fire to US and Israeli flags and destroyed effigies of Donald Trump in Muslim-majority countries around the globe, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt and Indonesia.

David Sim Dec 08, 2017

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian stone-throwers traded volleys in the streets with soldiers firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

David Sim Dec 08, 2017

Coalition warplanes pounded Yemen's capital with at least 25 air strikes overnight in apparent retaliation for the killing of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh by Houthi rebels.

David Sim Dec 05, 2017

The Ukrainian military said in a statement they suffered their biggest loss of life since July during the clash near the small village of Krymske.

David Sim Nov 24, 2017

International aid groups describe the situation in Yemen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis as millions are at risk of famine.

David Sim Nov 22, 2017

The UN tribunal on war crimes in former Yugoslavia has convicted General Ratko Mladic of crimes against humanity and genocide during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

David Sim Nov 22, 2017

On 22 November, a UN war crimes tribunal will deliver its verdict in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic. In his home village of Bozanovici, he is still seen as a hero.

David Sim Nov 17, 2017

The week's best news and sports photos, from Rohingya refugee crisis and Kenya elections, to Halloween and Day of the Dead celebrations.

David Sim Nov 03, 2017

Hours after the Syrian army liberated the city of Deir al-Zour from Isis, came the news that Iraqi forces had entered al-Qaim.

David Sim Nov 03, 2017

Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for pickets and petitions after President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner of the re-run election that was boycotted by Odinga.

David Sim Oct 31, 2017

The White Lives Matter rallies in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro were organised by the Nationalist Front coalition, made up of some of the same groups involved in the violent march in Charlottesville in August.

David Sim Oct 30, 2017

The bride wore white, the female guests wore colourful clothes, and men and women danced together as music rang out across the war-ravaged Jazra area of the city of Raqqa.

David Sim Oct 30, 2017

Deadly clashes between police and protesters and fears of further bloodshed led Kenya's election commission to indefinitely postpone voting in some opposition strongholds.

David Sim Oct 27, 2017

The week's best news and sports photos, from autumn and Halloween to the King of Thailand's funeral and the end of the sieges of Raqqa and Marawi.

David Sim Oct 27, 2017

Air strikes, artillery and machine-gun fire have left the lakeside city of Marawi in the southern Philippines a smouldering wasteland of shattered buildings and bullet-pocked mosques and houses.

David Sim Oct 25, 2017

Photos of the shattered Syrian city of Raqqa after a fierce four-month battle to expel Islamic State (Isis/Daesh).

David Sim Oct 24, 2017

In pictures: The siege of Marawi has finally come to an end after one final fierce gunfight with a group of militants holed up in the shattered city.

David Sim Oct 23, 2017

The week's best photojournalism, from the battles for Raqqa and Kirkuk, to forest fires in Portugal and Spain and Storm Ophelia's yellow skies over Britain.

David Sim Oct 20, 2017