Student protests test France's Republican promise

Education reform is at the heart of the demonstrations shaking Paris and beyond, with thousands already arrested, but the government's ability to meet learners' demands is limited

Elie Kossaifi

Abandoned Underground

[caption id="attachment_55249973" align="alignnone" width="620"] A man kisses his son, who was rescued from Soma coal mine after an explosion inside the mine on May 13, 2014. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty…

Ahu Özyurt

Shadows of Yarmouk

[caption id="attachment_55249925" align="alignnone" width="620"] People wait in line to receive humanitarian aid in Yarmouk refugee camp, in southern Damascus, Syria, on February 2, 2014. (Rami al…

Badr Shomali

Making Friends, Qatar-Style

[caption id="attachment_55249917" align="alignnone" width="620"] Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmed Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmud (C), chairs a meeting of an international commission monitoring a limited…

James Spencer

Iraq off the Agenda

[caption id="attachment_55249876" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi man walks past an election poster fronted by Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki (C) on March 25, 2014, in Baghdad. (Ahmad Al…

James Denselow

Yemen’s Information War

[caption id="attachment_55249872" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch Belkis Wille presents a report entitled "'A Life-Threatening Career': Attacks on Journalists…

Catherine Shakdam

Rebel Surgery

[caption id="attachment_55249853" align="alignnone" width="620"] Opposition fighters help one of their wounded comrades during clashes with government forces in the Sheikh Najjar district on the…

Tam Hussein

Ankara’s Armenian Charm Offensive

[caption id="attachment_55249844" align="alignnone" width="620"] People hold black and white portraits of Armenian intellectuals who were deported on April 24, 1915, during a commemorative march in…

Barçin Yinanç