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Comment: Kidnappings No Longer News in Iraq

Many Iraqis are seemingly too preoccupied by their own kidnapping fears to mourn Margaret Hassan.

Make Mine a Mercedes

Car owners in parts of Kurdistan are taking advantage of a new government scheme to get old bangers off the road.

A Game of Political Dominos

The pre-election political scene is still taking shape with solid alliances yet to be formed.

Sunnis Set to Boycott Elections

The attack on Fallujah has deepened Sunni suspicions of the election process.

Special School for Returning Kurds

An education programme designed especially for the children of returning Kurdish expats is intended to cushion their culture shock.

Job Market Flourishes in Kurdish North

Rising investment and stable security have created a boom in the job market in Sulaimaniyah.

Safety in Sadr City

Baghdad’s restive Shia suburb has become an unexpected haven for Kurds.

Downbeat Feel to Ramadan

While violence muted this year’s celebrations in Iraq, the Eid al-Fitr festival managed to unite Shia and Sunni communities for the first time in decades.

Basra Sees Menace from the East

Many people in southern city believe Iran is carrying out assassinations as part of a strategy to extend influence.

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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