Youth

19-year-old Palestinian boy, Taher Mohamed Zajarneh was shot dead by Israeli forces during early Monday raid in south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian Health Ministry announced. “Taher Mohamed Zakarneh was shot dead by the occupation ...

When Israeli missiles started landing in Gaza in early August, shattering glass and collapsing buildings, Jouman Abdu put on headphones, covered her eyes with a blindfold and stretched on the couch. The 8-year-old Palestinian girl said she came ...

In one of the largest makeshift shelters for Rohingya in the Kiryana Talab area of Jammu and Kashmir, 10-year-old Parveena Bibi often asks for her parents. There are many children like Parveena who live an uncertain life in these temporary ...

Aidan Garza often talks about his dad in the present tense, as if David Garza were still right across the living room, sitting in his favorite chair, calling the 12-year-old over to watch a Star Wars series. As ...

A two-month ceasefire has given aid groups a chance to step up aid to Yemen’s hungry millions, but malnutrition ravaging children is projected to worsen if fighting returns or humanitarian funding does not pick up. “The benefits of ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) tweeted on Friday that millions of Yemeni children are at risk of starvation if no immediate action is taken in the crisis-ridden Arab country. In its tweet, UNICEF said: “Yemeni children are ...

Until a year ago, Stephana Ferrell’s political activism was limited to the occasional letter to elected officials. Then came her local school board meeting in Orange County, Florida and an objection raised to Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel “Ge ...

Professor Nazeer Ahmed The rains failed again that year. It was the third year in succession when there was no rain. The crops had disappeared and the land was a brown swath of dusty rubble. Trees had lost ...

A large explosion outside a school in Somalia’s capital on Thursday killed at least eight people, including students, witnesses said. The extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. The al-Qaida-linked group controls large parts of rural Somalia ...

Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha called on OIC member states and relevant institutions, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts in tackling the challenges facing children, particularly those of refugees ...