BBC News Arabic Investigations

BBC News investigation reveals how violent criminal gangs are finding, abusing and extorting people from the LGBTQ community they meet online in Egypt. And with extraordinary access to police transcripts the BBC shows how police are using the same dating and social apps to find and arrest people, creating a hostile environment where Egyptian LGBTQ people have nowhere to hide.

Rape at the hands of family members; the struggle of a 30-year-old woman to escape the control of her father; and the fear of revenge when a woman manages to leave her husband.

A BBC News Arabic investigation has found that a narrow interpretation of international law contributed to a delay in the delivery of life-saving international humanitarian aid by the United Nations to North-West Syria following the earthquake of February 6th.

A BBC News Arabic investigation exposes the doctors and clinics falsely promising they can improve patient's sight. Reporter, Ramadan Younes, is one of the millions of people globally who have a genetic eye condition, Retinitis Pigmentosa, that can lead to blindness. He goes undercover to secretly film the doctors making false promises to desperate patients in Russia, the US and the Middle East charging up to $20,000 for procedures that are dubious and potentially dangerous.

BBC News Arabic investigates Sudan's spiral into violence between the warring factions of formerly allied militia and reveals war crimes being carried out by both sides.

Captagon is a highly addictive drug that has ravaged the Middle East in recent years. Now a joint investigation by BBC News Arabic with investigative journalism network, OCCRP, has uncovered new direct links between this multi-billion dollar drug trade and leading members of the Syrian Armed Forces and President Bashar al-Assad's family. With evidence from deep inside the narco-state, we reveal Syria's military elite and its fragile wartime economy hooked on this lucrative illegal pill.