The Yezidi minority has so far stayed well out of Iraq’s internecine battles, but violence with their Muslim neighbours has escalated following the murder of a girl who apparently converted to Islam.
Membership of a South Asian economic grouping may not be all it is cracked up to be.
Armenians and Azerbaijanis look for ways round new curbs on migrant workers, while Georgians take most of the heat.
Legal refugees as well as illegal aliens are swept up and dumped on the Afghan border.
Government blamed for not limiting steep increase in gas price.
The government’s attempt to fast-track drug offenders has secured some convictions, though some suspect the big players are too powerful to be caught.
The wearing of the Hijab, or veil, a traditional Muslim custom, denounced as repressive by many, is being observed by increasing numbers of women in Iraq.
The major river in the southern Caucasus seems to be everyone’s dumping ground.
Campaigners urge an end to the practice of exchange marriage which, although in decline, continues to destroy the lives of young girls.
Hard-pressed staff daily confront the horrors of local bloodletting.
