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

A Two-Car Race

[caption id="attachment_55248704" align="alignnone" width="620"] Workers at the Iranian Khodro car manufacturing plant make Iranian car models as well as vehicles under license of the French company…

Saeed Shafiei

The Middle and the East

[caption id="attachment_55248653" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz (2nd L) is welcomed by his Japanese counterpart, Naruhito (2nd R), upon his arrival at Haneda…

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Small Steps after Geneva

[caption id="attachment_55248650" align="alignnone" width="620"] United States Secretary of State John Kerry (L) departs Montreux on January 23, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/POOL/GARY CAMERON)[/caption] For…

Andrew Bowen

Iran’s Naysayer-in-Chief

[caption id="attachment_55248676" align="alignnone" width="620"] File photo of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, taken on January 29, 2014. (khamenei.ir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)[…

Arash Aramesh

Ankara’s Attuned Syria Policy

[caption id="attachment_55248606" align="alignnone" width="619"] Displaced Syrians wait to cross the Orontes river into Turkey on February 5, 2014. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] After nearly…

Ahu Özyurt

Yemen’s Forgotten Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55248544" align="alignnone" width="620"] House visits of community mid-wives are instrumental in providing household-based maternal and neonatal care in rural areas of Yemen,…

Catherine Shakdam

New Hope for Cyprus

[caption id="attachment_55248585" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Turkish Cypriot girl plays in a park near the UN buffer zone on referendum day in the Turkish side of divided Nicosia, 24 April 2004…

Hugh Pope

War is a State Monopoly

[caption id="attachment_55248539" align="alignnone" width="620"] An opposition fighter guards a position in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January 7, 2014 during ongoing clashes with fighters…

Asim Salih

Libya vs Western Bankers

[caption id="attachment_55248532" align="alignnone" width="620"] Picture of a Libyan Dinar banknote bearing a portrait of former leader Moamer Gaddafi is pictured in Tripoli on September 8, 2011. …

Jason Pack