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Fighting Mountain Ghosts in Tunisia

Security sources say recent arrests mark progress in campaign to root out armed Islamists from their mountain retreats.

Syria: Stories from Raqqa

Self-taught artist Fatima Ibrahim’s sculptures depict scenes of suffering.

Syria: How It All Began

Animated film outlines 2011 uprising and ensuing conflict.

Syrian Media Address Potential Strike

State TV stations insist gas attacks carried out by Western-backed rebels.

Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: From One War to the Next

A Normal Working Day in a Syrian Field Hospital

Deciding who receives oxygen, and who dies.

Syria: What to Expect in Detention

Former detainee's account of interrogation and torture.

Houses in the village of Dranda built for Abkhaz refugees from Syria: (Photo: Nizfa Arshba)

Abkhazia Takes in Ethnic Kin From Syria

Five hundred diaspora members have arrived so far.

Border Shooting Inflames Armenia-Turkey Tensions

Death of Turkish civilian worsens an already troubled relationship.

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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