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Factions Argue Over Future of Syrian City

In newly-liberated Idlib, rebels cannot agree on who should run services.

Two women stand and chat outside a school in the Ansari neighbourhood of Aleppo. (Photo: Hussam Kwaifatiya)

Syria: A Decade of Insults

A daughter is stigmatised by her father’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Syria: An Exceptional Woman

At the age of 105, a grandmother remains a staunch revolutionary.

Syria: Healing Childhood Trauma Through Play

Local initiative provides youngsters with educational and psychological support.

Ammar Al Shahbander. (Photo: IWPR)

"A Man Who Cannot be Replaced"

A friend and colleague recalls Ammar Al Shahbander, who died on May 2.

Syria's Children All Deserve to Live

A mother describes the guilt of leaving the country to seek refuge abroad.

Syria: Waiting for Samih

A mother longs to see her only son again.

Signs and Wonders in a Damascus Prison

A prisoner finds some small comfort in rituals and fortune-telling.

A dilapidated classroom in Aleppo’s Amro bin As School. (Photo: Mahmud Abu Sheikh)

A Wartime Education in Syria

A girl’s story of trying to get through secondary school and pass government-run exams.

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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