Helmandis Braced for Taleban Battle
Local residents greet massive marine offensive with equal measures of hope and fear.
Local residents greet massive marine offensive with equal measures of hope and fear.
Rights advocate speaks of an "extraordinarily brutal campaign", saying hundreds may have been killed in last few months.
UN critical of pace of landmine clearance, warning it’ll be decades before targets met.
Banished from Iraq and barred from its neighbours, Palestinian refugees languish along Syrian frontier.
Washington decision to name an ambassador seen as positive but some are cautious.
A few senior jobs have gone to women but they still face an uphill struggle to be accepted as equals.
Ruling party confronts gap between socialist theory and need to modernise.
Senior Basra official says IWPR stories on social, economic and cultural issues in region will concentrate minds of authorities.
Authorities are introducing restrictions as form of pressure, say activists.
Militias say power sharing and government protection also needed to secure peace.