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

E Pluribus Yemen

[caption id="attachment_55248008" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemen's President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi (R) speaks during the closing session of the national dialogue in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a…

Catherine Shakdam

Fetteh in ISIS Country

[caption id="attachment_55248019" align="alignnone" width="620"] A rebel fighter walks in a street of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January 10, 2014. (MOHAMMED WESAM/AFP/Getty Images)[…

Tam Hussein

The Echo of a Bomb

[caption id="attachment_55247981" align="alignnone" width="620"] People visit the scene of the attack on the Yemeni defense ministry that took place on December 5, following the funeral of victims of…

James Spencer

Kurdistan Goes it Alone

[caption id="attachment_55247931" align="alignnone" width="620"] An employee works at the Tawke oil field near the town of Zacho, in Iraqi Kurdistan's Dohuk governorate, in this May 2009 file photo. …

Ranj Alaaldin

A Capital Idea?

[caption id="attachment_55247947" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian pedestrians wait to cross the road on December 24, 2013 in Iran. Due to strong air pollution in Tehran odd-even licence plate…

Farahmand Alipoor

Trial by Fire

[caption id="attachment_55247941" align="alignnone" width="620"] Visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan looks on at the Istana presidential palace in Singapore on January 9, 2014 (MOHD…

Ahu Özyurt

Egypt’s Despondent Voters

[caption id="attachment_55247904" align="alignnone" width="619"] A boy sleeps on a scooter in Tahrir Square on July 8, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)[/caption] On Tuesday and…

Ahmed Kadry

To Damascus, via Tehran

[caption id="attachment_55247897" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian PM Wael Nader Al-Halqi (L) meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) in Tehran on December 1, 2013. (Photo by Fatemeh…

Christian Emery

On His Own in Anbar

[caption id="attachment_55247871" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi soldiers stand along a road close to their vehicle in the area of Ein Tamer, which leads west out of the central Iraqi Shi'ite…

Caryle Murphy