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A group of people walking on a dirt path through a rural area with trees and scattered buildings.
10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel brings relief and questions
Full Episode
49:52
Washington faces uphill battle to unite rival factions in Libya
8:10
A doctor’s search to find home in war zones across the world
7:32
A group of people sitting on the ground, clapping, and holding a banner that reads 'Liberen a todos los presos políticos' in Spanish, with a Venezuelan flag displayed in front of them.
Venezuela amnesty law raises hopes, but doubts still linger
Full Episode
50:05
Son of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi killed
7:09
Libya campaign funds: The scandal that jailed Nicolas Sarkozy
6:56
Libyan capital Tripoli rocked by intense fighting
5:23
US prepares deportation flights to Libya, but rival Libyan governments reject plan
5:16
Release of war crimes suspect challenges ICC’s already complicated mission
4:05
A city in eastern Libya grapples with climate change
5:28
Uneven flood recovery in Derna, Libya
6:07
Survivors in Derna, Libya, mark 1 year after disastrous dam collapse
4:48
Libyan officials sentenced to prison in Derna dam case
4:23
EU audit of migration funding with Turkey
4:19
Screenshot from Bahjat official lyric YouTube video "Hometown Smile."
Music
Libyan pop star Bahjat beat the odds. Now he wants to popularize ‘A-pop.’
Paul Hudson of Sarasota, Fla., holds up a photo of his daughter Melina who was killed at 16 years old, along with the photos of almost a hundred other victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
Conflict & Justice
‘Libya’s institutions are becoming weaker,’ analyst says after suspected Lockerbie bomber arrest
In this March 21, 2011, file photo, a Syrian soldier steps out of the burned courthouse that was set on fire by anti-government protesters in the southern city of Daraa, Syria.
Civil workshopping: Part II
Head of the Presidential Council of Libya Mohamed al-Manfi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah attend a press conference on Libya in Paris
Conflict
Elections in Libya should be part of a larger process toward peace, analyst says
A Belavia plane lands at the International Airport outside Vilnius, Lithuania
Top of The World
Turkey halts flights for some Arab citizens traveling to Belarus
Migrants wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 sit at a pier as Italian police officers stand by.
Migration
Some migrants crossing the Mediterranean say they prefer death to being returned
A large crowd of people are shown with many carrying the Libyan flag in a blurred motion photograph.
Global Politics
Libyans mark 2011 uprising with eyes on interim government
A woman is shown bending over with a white propane tank in her hand and wearing a hooded jacket.
Top of The World
Freezing temps wreak havoc on utilities in US and Mexico
US President Joe Biden is shown seated at a wooden desk with a tall stack of embossed folders next to him.
Top of The World
Biden tackles the coronavirus; Twin suicide bombings in Baghdad; Migrant shipwreck off Libyan coast
A police officer is shown walking on a grassy meadow with the wreckage of a large white aircraft in the background.
Justice
Justice Dept. charges bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am explosion
In this Feb. 8, 2011, file photo, a leader of Egypt's anti-government protesters, Egyptian Wael Ghonim, center, 30, a Google Inc. marketing manager who was a key organizer of the online campaign that sparked the first protest on Jan. 25.
Social media
Arab uprisings: What role did social media really play?
A compiliation of images from the Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East
Top of The World
Looking back at a historic time in the Middle East and North Africa
In this Jan. 29, 2011 file photo, anti-government protesters gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.
Photography
Photos: Arab uprisings began with quest for freedom and led to repression, wars
A crowd of people celebrate with flashes of red, black and green flags waving in the air.
Conflict
A poem penned during Libya’s 2011 uprising continues to inspire hope
A woman poses in front of a Black Lives Matter mural on the street as a protest against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Brooklyn, New York, June 16, 2020.  
Identity
‘We need to talk about racism,’ these Middle Easterners say 
Kim Yo-jong is shown looking over her left shoulder
Top of The World
North Korea stops answering daily calls with South; Past epidemics underscore importance of mental health
Doreen Oport, who was injured in the attack on the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya in 1998, stands outside the US Supreme Court after oral arguments in Washington, Feb. 24, 2020.
The State Dept. is nearing a deal over 1998 terrorism victims. But can Sudan pay it?
Libyan boys check a damaged car after a shell fell on a residential area at Hadba al-Badri district, in Tripoli, Libya, Jan. 28, 2020.
COVID-19
Libyans are caught between coronavirus and conflict 
A member of the Syrian Civil Defense sanitizes inside the mosque at the Bab al-Nour internally displaced persons camp, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Azaz, Syria, March 26, 2020.
COVID-19
Combat in the world’s biggest conflict areas not slowing down despite COVID-19
Khalifa Haftar and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, both wearing suits, are shown shaking hands.
Conflict & Justice
Libyan rivals, cajoled by Putin and Erdoğan, hold indirect Moscow peace talks
A man at a podium with groups of seated people around him
Global Politics
Is Turkey seeking a neo-Ottoman Empire?
Samantha Power sitting The World's studio for a radio interview.
Conflict & Justice
Former Amb Samantha Power stresses ‘political evolution, rather than revolution’
Wounded migrants lie on hospital beds after an air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in Tajoura, in Tripoli Central Hospital, Libya, July 3, 2019.
Migration
EU ‘complicity’ led to migrant deaths in Libyan airstrike, MSF says
A young man works on a screen print design
Business, Economics and Jobs
Will a German investment in Ghana’s youth slow down migration?
Migrants are shown in the near ground walking in a line as they disembark from a merchant ship with armed soldiers behind them.
Conflict & Justice
Maltese soldiers seize small tanker hijacked by migrants
Political cartoon showing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the style of Ikea instructions.
Global Satire
In new book, Lebanese Satirist Karl reMarks skewers Middle East pundits
Migrants are brought aboard a Save the Children rescue boat
Conflict & Justice
Inside Italy’s plot to infiltrate migrant rescue boats in the Mediterranean
Arts, Culture & Media
A Literary Talent Gone Too Soon
Man on a boat lifting a young child to hand to rescuers
Economics
A year after the Italy-Libya migrant deal: Fewer deaths at sea but persistent abuse on land
A migrant looks out to sea off the coast of Libya.
Conflict
Migrant boat capsizes off Libya, 90 feared dead, mostly Pakistanis
Manantali Dam
Conflict
In Africa, dams and loss of wetlands are helping to fuel the migrant crisis
Syrian refugee girl rests inside the Spanish rescue vessel Astral after being rescued by the Spanish NGO Proactiva off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.
Conflict
Migrants desperate to flee Libya’s detention camps are being turned back at sea
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford is stands at a podium during a press conference.
Conflict
Pentagon looks at stepping up its role in Africa to counter ISIS
US Customs and Immigration officers keep watch at the arrivals level at Los Angeles International Airport, June 29, 2017
Conflict
Trump’s new travel ban ‘still smells and looks like a Muslim ban,’ activists say
Detained migrants sit at a makeshift detention facility at Tajoura, Libya, earlier this month
Conflict
A growing number of migrants are detained in Libya, enduring dismal conditions
Migrant Offshore Aid Station rescues migrants from a rubber dinghy during an operation in the central Mediterranean
Conflict
This group wants to ‘defend Europe’ from migrants at sea
Migrants on wooden boats and rubber dinghies awaiting rescue are seen from the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station ship Phoenix
Conflict
Europe’s latest idea for slowing the movement of migrants? Limit the number of rubber boats it sells to Libya.
African migrants arriving in Italy from Mediterranean
Conflict
African migrants are reaching Europe with tales of kidnap and torture in Libya
The Libyan coast guard boards a boat in the Mediterranean while humanitarian groups bring migrants onto their ships.
Conflict
Libya’s coast guard is ‘endangering lives’ of migrants trying to reach Europe
Save the Children workers rescue migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya
Economics
Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day
Electronic musician Ash Koosha
Music
The World’s music feature this week: Contrabanned at SXSW
An overcrowded dinghy with migrants from different African countries is seen after members of the German NGO Jugend Rettet guided them towards the Iuventa vessel during a rescue operation, off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea September 21, 2016.
Conflict
You think you know the refugee story? This documentary might change your mind.
Environment
More countries, organizations seeking to use aerial drones for peaceful, nefarious purposes
Business, Economics and Jobs
Radio flourishing in post-Gadhafi Libya
Gadhafi’s son accused of war crimes, mass killing in Libya
Libya ISIS US bombing Sirte
Conflict
The US is now bombing ISIS in Libya