by Sarah Leah Whitson On January 1, 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military claimed that the dead were Hamas militants who had been planning an attack on Israeli forces.

At least 49 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

By: Amira Hass The Israeli army has been destroying Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip for 40 years. The latest wave of demolitions, which began in the summer of 2000, has left 1,500 families homeless.

Israeli warplanes struck a United Nations-run school in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more who had sought refuge there from the violence that has engulfed the territory, according to Palestinian health officials.

President Joe Biden’s administration is leaving migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in limbo over the fate of asylum, as it grapples with a surge in arrivals and a court order that has blocked a key policy change.

What Ukraine Has Lost Ukrainian soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in the village of Shyrokyne, near the town of Mariupol, on Feb. 18, 2015. AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka