BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor

The women who joined IS

Sold a dream, trapped in reality: what next for the IS wives?

Auliya Atrafi of BBC Afghan goes back to the city that took him in as an asylum seeker

Bomb craters and beaches: BBC Somali's Qalib Barud in Mogadishu

BBC Urdu’s Humaira Kanwal remembers Afzal Kohistani, and the Kohistan video case

Samba and Brazil’s forgotten heroes celebrated in the Rio Carnival

Can the Kurdish led Rojava revolution in northern Syria survive the end of the conflict?

BBC Russian investigates military links between Russia and the Central African Republic

A new statue of Ethiopia’s last Emperor, but an old debate about his legacy

Revealing the lives of Venezuelan prisoners in a shopping mall turned detention centre

Protests on the streets, detentions and deaths, but will President Bashir stand down?