Since April 2016, thousands of native Americans and their supporters have been converging on a site in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline which is supposed to bring fracked crude oil...

Heading south, past the Salton Sea where farmland turns to dusty towns, following the tyre tracks of trailers and camper vans deep into the parched desert, a landscape of shabby vehicles that have taken root in the ground emerges. For years, a ...

Based in Istanbul, Ivor Prickett has been covering the conflict in Iraq and its ripple effects across the region for the past two years. Some of the most brutal fighting to regain parts of Iraq from Islamic State (IS) took place during the battle ...

In the November 2014, Panos photographer Mads Nissen and his colleague Jacob Svendsen from the Danish newspaper Politiken travelled to Sierra Leone to document the ongoing Ebola emergency that was to claim almost 4,000 lives in the West African ...

An agreement between the EU and Turkey in March 2016 stipulated that any migrants or refugees arriving from Turkey in Greece would be sent back to Turkey if they didn't apply for asylum in Greece or if their claim was rejected. The agreement was a ...

Colombia's civil war, a deadly 52 year long national ordeal that left over 200,000 dead and displaced another 5 to 6 million from their homes, finally looks like it might be drawing to a close. What started as partisan conflicts between militias of ...

Her name isn't actually Sarah. For her own safety and for that of her family living in Iraq, her name can't be revealed. She is living in a safe house in Baden-Wrttemberg in Germany with other women and children who have escaped from conflict zones ...

At 2:30 am on 3 August 2014, a woman was baking bread in Gurzeric village in northwestern Iraq when she suddenly heard a gunshot. It was at this moment, in the middle of the night, that militants from Islamic State (IS) started a full assault on ...

The coup attempt of 15 July in Turkey brought about a massive nationwide campaign to silence opposition to the government and punish those suspected of being connected to the plotters. In all, some 15,800 people have been detained, including 10,000 ...

The sleepy town of Veles in the centre of Macedonia seems an unlikely place to have played a potentially decisive role in the 2016 US elections. Yet this faded and morose former industrial town of 55,000 people briefly shot to the world's attention ...

The remote village of Ribnovo in the Rhodope mountains of southwestern Bulgaria has kept its traditional winter marriage ceremony alive despite decades of Communist persecution and subsequent economic hardship. Ribnovo's inhabitants, who are Muslim,...

Aysha is one of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have undertaken the hazardous and sometimes deadly journey from Syria, through Turkey to Europe over the past two years, fleeing war, persecution and death. It took her over two weeks of ...

The waters of the Prespa Lakes are shared between three countries which border them: Albania, Greece and Macedonia. Over the past century the two lakes, located on a mountain plateau in the southern Balkans have been straddling the faultlines between...

The Greek island of Leros, nestled among the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean, is a place accustomed to outcasts. In Antiquity it was a place of exile for the nearby town of Miletus, now on the Turkish mainland. Later, during Ottoman times the ...

On the Greek island of Leros, in the dilapidated shell of a former mental asylum that served as a jail for political prisoners during the country's dictatorship, a 'hotspot' has been housing stranded refugees who have arrived on boats from Turkey ...

In Japan, where eating is taken very seriously and fish forms a major part of the national diet 'fugu', or pufferfish, is in a league of its own. Not only is it one of the most expensive delicacies on the Japanese menu but it also carries the extra ...