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Competing Interests in Holy City

Residents of Najaf worry that a radical religious faction is seeking control of their city and its great shrines.

Sunnis Seek New Political Role

Competing with Kurds and Shias, the Sunnis are creating new organisations to represent their interests.

Ballot Debate Rumbles On

Iraqis have conflicting opinions over calls for direct popular vote.

Iranian Pilgrims Face Highway Robbery

Increasing numbers of religious visitors are coming under attack as they visit shrines.

Kurds Moot Future Status

The extreme option is secession – but many Kurds say this is a bargaining ploy to get the best possible status as part of Iraq.

Kurdistan Picks up the Pieces

The attack on the two main Kurdish parties has provided impetus for resolving their differences.

Thieves Descend on Baghdad Bazaar

Shopkeepers increasingly have to share the narrow streets with drug dealers and gamblers.

Open Border Eases Relations

Separated for 13 years, Iraqi and Kuwaitis become reacquainted after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Resistance Reveals “Post-US Plan”

Baghdad residents dismiss the pledge to win control of Iraqi cities as mere bravado.

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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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