The man, Mazen al-Hamada, is regarded as a martyr by the rebels who deposed Assad after thirteen scourging years of civil war. “Mazen is an icon of the revolution,” one activist told me.

The Arctic, historically perceived as a marginal region in international security, has become an arena of evolving geopolitical, environmental, and identity-driven transformations. This dissertation ...

The newly registered, Yam's Mining, which opened its doors in Conakry in March, filed five permit requests on 21 April to explore gold in Guinea. It has targeted sites in the eastern region of Kankan.