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A boy sits atop someone's shoulders as people celebrate the first anniversary of the overthrow of the Assad regime on December 8, 2025 in Damascus, Syria. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Syria: Joy and Sadness

In this week’s update, read about Syrian joy and sadness on the first anniversary of the fall of the Assad regime.

People wave flags and take photographs as they celebrate the first anniversary of the overthrow of the Assad regime on in Umayyad Square December 8, 2025 in Damascus, Syria. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

First Person

“Was Syria Worth This Price?”

On the anniversary of the fall of the regime, our joy is mixed with bitterness and our laughter with tears.

Launch of the Syria Prisons Museum at the National Museum in Damascus, September 15, 2025. © Prisons Museum

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Syria - From Silence to Memory

Read about the new Damascus museum memorialising the heartbreaking stories of those who suffered in the country’s prisons.

Seyran Akbal employs four women at the tandır she opened 12 years ago. © Fatma Nur Polatcan

Turkey: Keeping the Tandırs Burning

For local women, baking this traditional bread is heritage as well as livelihood.

Marie Colvin in Tahrir Square. © Ivor Prickett/AFP/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Marie Colvin’s Legacy

How iconic war reporter Marie Colvin's legacy is supporting women journalists throughout the Middle East.

People remove possessions and inspect their homes following Israeli airstrikes on April 13, 2024 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. © Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Recognising Palestine

Implications of a fresh wave of unilateral recognitions of the Palestinian state.

Israeli soldiers holds a machine gun as he is standing on an armoured personnel carrier near the border with the Gaza Strip on September 7, 2025 in Southern Israel, Israel. The Israel Defence Force are in control of over 40% of Gaza City after mounting a new offensive, levelling buildings in the neighbourhood. Prime Minister Netanyahu announced Israel's intention to seize all of the strip after peace talks with Hamas broke down in July. © Amir Levy/Getty Images

Recognising Palestine

Netanyahu’s Never-Ending War

The Israeli leader’s virulence against Palestinian statehood has extended even unto undoing the building blocks of his own state.

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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