Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful

Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin tells Conflict Zone at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum: 'We are taking care of our own national security.' Does Turkey still want to be in the EU?

After several years of unrest in Ethiopia and hundreds killed, Hailemariam Desalegn resigned as prime minister to make way for reform, but left behind a questionable human rights record. He meets DW's Conflict Zone.

High-ranking Chinese analyst Victor Gao defends on DW's Conflict Zone the detention of at least one million Uighurs in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, by saying China is dealing with extremism and separatism.

Decades of child sexual abuse has left the Catholic Church in crisis. The faithful want priests who abuse removed and prosecuted. DW speaks to a priest on the papal commission for the protection of minors.

After stripping Kashmir of its special status, Delhi arrested thousands and imposed a communications blackout. But a senior figure in the ruling BJP tells DW's Conflict Zone it's wrong to call the action a "lockdown."

Hong Kong: Will violence kill the pro-democracy movement?

After stripping Kashmir of its special status, Delhi arrested thousands and imposed a communications blackout. But a senior figure in the ruling BJP tells DW's Conflict Zone it's wrong to call the action a "lockdown."

Protests in Hong Kong, uprising in Venezuela, rising populism and Brexit blockage – all have become symbols of a world in crisis. DW's Conflict Zone looks back at recent interviews with key players.

The Taliban "have to sit" for talks with the Afghan government, says the country's ambassador to the UN in Geneva. But how realistic is a common vision between them?

Sam Brownback, the former US senator and Kansas governor who has been the US ambassador at large for international religious freedom since February 2018, says religious freedom is universal. "It's a fundamental right for everybody. It exists all times, all places, for everybody. And it doesn't impinge on other rights."