Reportage
Yemen’s Preachers Go to War
Three Salafist commanders who rose from Yemen’s preaching circles are leading the Saudi-backed push to retake the west coast, and for Gen. Abdulrahman al-Mahrami, the campaign is a test of whether his battlefield reputation can translate to the national stage.
A Democracy Unraveling
India’s sweeping revisions of its voter rolls have left millions, many of them poor and Muslim, struggling to prove they have the right to vote — and protests have filled Delhi’s streets in response.
In Yemen, No One Wants To Be a Teacher Anymore
Military recruitment and a collapsing riyal have drained Yemen’s teacher training colleges, with some departments now enrolling no students at all.
Life in Iran’s War-Torn South on the Strait of Hormuz
A writer journeys through Hormozgan province, from Bandar Abbas fish market to the graves of Minab's schoolchildren and a bombed wedding in Kuhestak, where residents say the ceasefire never arrived.
The Abuses in Turkish Textile Factories Supplying Major US Brands
In an exclusive investigation, New Lines reports on the Turkish textile factories where women workers face forced overtime and sexual harassment — factories that feed the supply chains for many famous clothing brands across the United States and Europe.
ICE Turns Its Sights on Buryat Asylum-Seekers
Buryats, a persecuted Mongol minority in Russia, are one of the latest groups in the U.S. to be denied asylum. After a near miss with ICE, one truck driver recalls the Russia he fled, the America he sought and what he fears if he gets deported.
Waiting for Yemen’s al-Sharaa
In a large online propaganda campaign in September, Yemen's government and its Saudi backers invoked Syria's revolution to promise Sanaa’s liberation. Within days, the Houthis had taken the coast of Bab al-Mandab.