Abdullah Iskandar

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addressing parliament (photo: AP)

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The Syrian Regime's Strategic Failure

Political analyst Abdullah Iskandar holds the Syrian regime responsible for the fact that the peaceful revolution in Syria has escalated into an armed conflict. He asserts that the regime's stubborn insistence on using military force to suppress opposition drove its opponents to armsMore

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Most Recent Photo Essay

Two young Afghan girls play with a prosthetic arm south of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Photos like this are typical of the work of photographer Majid Saeedi, who grew up in Tehran. He has said that right from the start of his career, he wanted to document human violence in order to open people's eyes to the horrors of the world. His idea for a photo documentary on Afghanistan came to him when he met victims of war at a Red Cross Centre in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: the scars of war

Majid Saeedi speaks through his photographs. The impressive and memorable photos in his Afghanistan photo documentary show how decades of war, conflict and occupation have ravaged the country and its people. Traces of these conflicts can be found everywhere, most particularly in the faces of the Afghan people.

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