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Syrian security forces stand with their guns atop a truck on July 15, 2025 near Suwayda, Syria. © Stringer/Getty Images

Vanished: Enforced Disappearances in Suwayda

A year on, many families are still searching for answers about the fate of their loved ones.

Syrian soldiers ride in a truck as smoke billows on the horizon on July 15, 2025 near Suwayda, Syria. © Stringer/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Suwayda, One Year On

Read about efforts to find answers to the hundreds of civilians forcibly disappeared in the Suwayda clashes in southern Syria.

Women are seen holding flags and cheering during a pro-government demonstration in Tehran, Iran. © Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Tehran’s Loyalty Pageant

In this week’s update, read about the complex truth behind Iran’s pro-regime demonstrations.

Women are seen holding flags and cheering during a pro-government demonstration in Tehran, Iran. © Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

Iran War

Tehran's Carnival of Resistance

In the centre of the Iranian capital, a nightly pro-regime rally has been going for nearly three months.

Transport workers and activists take part in a protest as they stage a strike over surging fuel costs on March 27, 2026 in Manila, Philippines. © Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Iran: Distant Conflict Hits Close to Home

The Philippines continues to reel from rising fuel costs and uncertainty for overseas workers due to the Iran war.

An activist waves an Iranian flag as transport workers stage a strike over surging fuel costs on March 27, 2026 in Manila, Philippines. © Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

Fuel, Food and Fear: Philippines Faces Impact of Iran War

Conflict has sent shockwaves far beyond the Middle East, driving up oil prices, straining supply chains and interrupting crucial remittances.

Investigative journalist Nadia Mabrouk. © Photo courtesy of N. Mabrouk

World Press Freedom Day 2026

Egypt: Success at a Double Cost

Women journalists carry an extra burden to prove their competence.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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