BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor

"I saw their silhouettes with the guns"

The BBC Afrique reporter caught up in the terror attack on an Ivory Coast beach

The story of a woman who nearly became a Boko Haram suicide bomber

Stories from BBC reporters of how the civil war in Sierra Leone changed their lives

The place of the Imam Reza shrine in Iranian hearts, and the power and wealth it creates

Zubair Ahmed revisits Kashmir's Hindu Pandits who fled their homeland over 20 years ago

How Syria's Kurdish women are taking the lead in public life

India's Jats want more privileges. So who are they, and how does the caste system work?

How the 'morality police' affect daily life in Iran

Abdinoor Aden of BBC Nairobi on the upsurge of gambling in Kenya

The BBC's Muhammad Hussein describes the violence and hardship his family is enduring