Middle East

Self-Immolation Seen as Only Escape

Family problems and desperate circumstances lead many young women to burn themselves to death.

18 Nov 05

Yerevan defies Washington by strengthening strategic relationship with Tehran.

18 Nov 05

In an ethnically mixed part of Georgia, tensions are high as locals blame new settlers for crime wave.

18 Nov 05

Furore over plans to merge a Circassian homeland with the surrounding Russian region.

18 Nov 05

Environmentalists claim flooding caused by Turkish dams is threatening Ajaria.

18 Nov 05

Lack of experience and poor financial support are affecting Iraq’s fledgling civil society groups.

18 Nov 05

Community leaders confident that they can build on their current political success on a local and national level.

18 Nov 05

Returning refugees angered by law that prevents them taking part in elections for Kurdistan assembly.

18 Nov 05

Arabs and Kurds are trading insults online as the election debate moves into cyberspace.

18 Nov 05

Iraq’s emerging democracy may not be perfect, but it must be given time to grow and mature.

18 Nov 05

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