Al Jazeera Close Up

We gain rare ac­cess in­side the Jenin Bat­tal­ion as they fight back against Is­raeli raids in the oc­cu­pied West Bank.

This Turk­ish work­er has been res­cu­ing fam­i­lies stuck un­der­neath the rub­ble for days.

As Peru is thrown into a po­lit­i­cal cri­sis, these women dream of op­po­site fu­tures for the coun­try.

These In­di­an fans in Qatar are mad for Mes­si’s Ar­genti­na.

They cy­cled near­ly 4,500 miles from Paris to watch the World Cup in Doha.

A goal­keep­er de­fies ex­pec­ta­tions by start­ing her foot­ball ca­reer at 48 in Naples, the city of the leg­endary Maradona.

In Su­dan, where women’s foot­ball was banned for 30 years, a coach dreams of tak­ing her male team to the first league.

These street girls from Bangladesh are strik­ing on the pitch at Qatar’s oth­er World Cup: The Street Child World Cup.

In Iran, women can’t en­ter sta­di­ums as spec­ta­tors, but these Afghan sis­ters dream of a spot on the side­lines as coach­es.

A group of women from the Brazil­ian fave­las turn their lives around by train­ing in The Black Pearls Foot­ball acad­e­my.