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A US Navy fighter prepares for take-off from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Red Sea. Picture from September 2013. (Photo: US Navy via Getty Images)

Syria: Whose Side Was That Plane On?

Civilians in Aleppo grapple with politics of an intervention that some see as arbitrary and misdirected.

A Tomahawk cruise missile launches from a US Navy vessel on September 23, 2014. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Garst/US Navy via Getty Images)

On Target in Syria?

In Deir al-Zor, it isn’t just ISIS members who think coalition air strikes will strengthen the Assad regime.

Survivor Recounts Iraqi Prison Massacre

Islamic State members slaughtered hundreds of Shia inmates after overrunning Mosul jail.

School Barriers for Syrian Armenians

Differences in language and lesson content make it hard for refugee pupils to keep up.

Christian refugees at a church in Ankawa. (Photo: Ali Adil)

Hard Choices, Grim Future for Iraqi Christians

Displaced families find safe haven in Kurdish region but future offers little hope.

Remote Course on Digital Security for Middle East/North Africa

More than 50 web users join online lessons over three weeks.

Child's Play in Aleppo Graveyard

Awareness of death runs through games in a playground on the edge of a cemetery.

Armenia Sends Official to Erdoğan Inauguration

Move seen as tentative step towards reviving diplomatic process.

A medical volunteer in Bustan al-Qasr district stands in front of a ruined building holding a banner that says, “Truly, Aleppo is the most dangerous city in the world.” (Photo: Ammar Abdullah)

Photo Essay

Taking Back the Syrian Revolution

Aleppo residents return to the streets to defend the ideal of a peaceful popular uprising.

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.

FOCUS

IWPR Women’s Prize for Journalism

IWPR’s inaugural award for outstanding journalism recognises the work of our network of women reporters worldwide. Working in often challenging environments, these journalists face additional threats such as harassment, gender-based violence and systemic misogyny.

SPOTLIGHT

World Press Freedom Day 2024

On World Press Freedom Day we focus on local journalists facing myriad challenges in the tireless pursuit of truth and their enduring efforts to bring meaningful change.

Journalists rush for cover inside a hospital in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on June 19, 2023 amid an Israeli army raid. Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank killed three Palestinians, in a raid that saw seven Israeli security personnel wounded and rare helicopter fire as the army said it pursued "wanted suspects". © RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images

Journalists visit the site of a destroyed Russian munitions depot in Biskvitne, Ukraine to the east of Kharkiv. © John Moore/Getty Images

A TV journalist prepares to do a piece to camera in front of an armoured personnel carrier on the frontline between Ukrainian forces and pro Russian separatists near the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve, in the Donetsk region on 24, 2014. © SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images

An Israeli soldier takes aim from behind a wall as journalists cover their patrol in the Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank on November 29, 2023, during an ongoing military operation in the camp. © © Zain Jaafar/AFP

Samson Wire, a photographer and Boniface Okendo, a videographer at Standard Group, a leading multi-media house in Kenya. Kenyan journalists are warning of escalating tensions and violence amid rising threats to press freedom © Francis Odee

A man carries items on a bicycle while walking next to a woman as people remove possessions and inspect their homes following Israeli airstrikes on April 13, 2024 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. © Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images

Former female radio presenter Marya Sultani during an interview with AFP at radio station Urooj in Farah province on October 10, 2021. Radio station Urooj once teamed with journalists producing news bulletins, but since the Taliban came to town, Ebrahim Parhar sits alone, broadcasting hours of religious sermons. © AFP via Getty Images

A Guatemalan journalist protests against the arrest of Jose Ruben Zamora, president of the newspaper El Periodico, outside the Justice Palace in Guatemala City, on July 30, 2022. © JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images

In this picture taken on September 8, 2021, Afghan newspaper Etilaat Roz journalists Nematullah Naqdi (R) and Taqi Daryabi sit in their office after being released from Taliban custody in Kabul. - Two Afghan journalists have shown off ugly welts and bruises after being beaten and detained for hours by Taliban fighters for covering a protest in the Afghan capital. © WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images

A news anchor waits for a broadcast as another 13 Israeli hostages are released from Gaza and brought back to Israel, during the third day of the temporary truce, outside The Museum of Modern Art known as the 'The Hostages and Missing Square' on November 25, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. © Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Moldova blocked access to more than 20 Russian media websites in October of last year, including Russia Today, saying they had been used as part of an information war against the country. © Misha Friedman/Getty Images

Graffiti on Haaret's office, Tel Aviv, March 27, 2024. From left to right: "The law and Torah study or the death penalty for all of us," "The shills of Amalek (the existential Biblical enemy of the Jewish people), "Israel's al-Jazeera". © Haaretz

Journalists of Radio Liberty (Azattyk Ynalgysy) work in the bureau in Bishkek on April 28, 2023. - A court in Russia-allied Kyrgyzstan on April 27, 2023 ordered the closure of the local branch of US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which criticised the "outrageous" ruling. Award-winning Radio Azattyk is a prominent outlet in the Central Asian country that regularly reports on opposition groups and investigates alleged corruption. © VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP via Getty Images

IN THIS ISSUE

↓	Comment: The Courage of Local Voices
↓	Gaza: “Everyone Has a Family in Danger”
↓	Israel’s Media Blindness Over Gaza
↓	Ukraine’s Information Vacuum
↓	Afghanistan: Journalism Amid the Darkness
↓	Comment: Latin America: Journalism Continues to Hold Power to Account
↓	Pressure Builds on Central Asia Media
↓	Moldova Struggles to Balance Security and Free Speech
↓	Press Freedom Struggles in Kenya