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Morocco's Faltering Protest Movement

North African state has managed to head off major unrest experienced by other regional states.

Syrians Fear Escalation in Violence

Activists warn regime could step up its campaign to crush protest movement following pressure from Arab League.

Anti-Syrian demonstration in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Photo: Salam Hafez)

Calls For Lebanon to End Syria Support

Allegations that Lebanese administration has helped Damascus pursue opposition activists.

Basra is Iraq’s major seaport, and its economic future could be in question if Kuwait builds its own freight facility nearby. (Photo: Ahmad Wahid)

Iraqis Fear Impact of New Kuwait Port

Locals warn that development could lead to mass job losses in port city of Basra.

IWPR Insight

Saif Gaddafi Trial Would be Coup for ICC

Interests of justice seem to have suffered from overarching desire to remove regime figures from power.

Assad Opponents Still Split Over Tactics

Syrian activists want to arm army defectors but opposition coalition body fears this might delegitimise uprising.

Editorial Comment

Iraq's Lessons for The Arab Spring

Arab countries embracing democracy should learn from the costly mistakes made in Iraq’s post-Saddam era.

Interview

Opposition Says Assad Won't Honour Arab League Plan

Regime is given two weeks to withdraw troops, release prisoners and allow international organisations into Syria.

Ameena Abdullah stands outside her makeshift home where she has lived for six years in the Makbali refuge camp (Photo: Rasheed Duhok)

Iraq: Kurdish Refugees Remain in Limbo

Thousands of refugees living in camps for over two decades are still without citizenship.

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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