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A Free Syrian Army fighter helps his wounded fellow fighter in Al-Amariya district in Aleppo on May 8, 2014. (REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah)
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An Iraqi election commission official pulls ballot boxes at a polling station in the capital, Baghdad, on May 8, 2014, following the country’s general elections. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
Iraq off the Agenda
The worst violence in six years defined the backdrop for the Iraqi elections in April. The vote, the first to take place since the US troop withdrawal in 2011, briefly pushed the beleaguered country back onto the news agenda. Before then, it seemed that only...Caption:
The wreckage of a tour bus that was targeted by a suicide bombing on February 16 is seen in the Egyptian south Sinai resort town of Taba on February 18, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
Winning Back the Sinai
The interim government that replaced Mohamed Mursi in July 2013 has built its legitimacy on “rescuing” Egypt from Mursi’s mismanagement, as well as from Islamist terrorism. Yet terrorist attacks continue almost a year after they took power. Egypt’s ongoing struggle...Caption:
Members of the special body tasked to draft a new constitution for Libya and members of the General National Congress (GNC) gather during the body’s first meeting in Bayda April 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)
Tunisia’s Example to Libya
Libya has made the transition from dictatorship, but it is now an anarchy calling itself a democracy. The chaos enveloping it was once also seen in neighboring Tunisia, where new democratic ambitions were struggling to take root amid counterrevolution, an economic...Caption:
Saint Michael’s Church in Ebbe, Tripoli in northern Lebanon. (Courtesy of Alessandra Bajec)
Churches on the Frontline
Father Arabius knows his city well. He serves St. Michael’s Orthodox Church in Ebbe, a district of Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli. Ebbe is bordered by two rival neighborhoods where a recurring conflict has violently erupted once again. Since the start of the uprising...Caption:
Pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) mayoral candidate for Diyarbakir city Gultan Kisanak (2nd R) and candidate for Baglar neigborhood Birsen Kaya Akat (4th L) pose with local women during an election campaign in Diyarbakir on February 26, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)