On a particularly cold evening, Oksana Bender was sitting in her garden filled with strawberries watching her children play when

Hundreds of people braved the rain to march through the city yesterday in protest against the ongoing crisis in Palestine.

“We do whatever it takes to get to a landmine before another child does,” reads the website of Manchester-based charity

A medical emergency response charity based at The University of Manchester has become the UK’s deployment lead to global humanitarian crises, receiving an £8million grant from the Government.

President Barack Obama is guilty of committing the ‘oldest war crime in the book’ by bombing a hospital in Kunduz, according to a leading Manchester conflict expert.

The EU should use all its tools to bring about a new Middle East peace process and prevent creating another generation of young Palestinians with ‘life long hatred in their hearts’, said a North West MEP.

It was forty years ago that Oldham Council began the building of the imposing 200ft Civic Centre tower, but not many know the secret of what lies underneath it.

Two prominent Syrian community leaders came together on Tuesday night after a Lowry show on the Arab Spring to discuss the future of their war-torn homeland.

In an uprising that everyone thought would present hope for the Syrian people, the conflict that emerged has proved to be the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time.

More than seven million British soldiers took part in one of bloodiest conflicts in history, the First World War, many of whom have their own unique acts of courage and tales of valour.

Peace activist Colin Parry insisted that the Government will open a dialogue with Isis at yesterday’s Oldham Peace Conference.