The plot thickens
Until Saddam is found, dead or alive, the war in Iraq cannot be considered over, writes Salah Hemeid

Facing resistance
The Anglo-American military conquest of Iraq is starting to be seen, experienced and resisted as just that -- a military conquest. Graham Usher writes from Baghdad

Water under the bridge
In spite of European countries' interests in Iran, the EU seems to be following the US's lead as Washington steps up its threats against Tehran, Mustafa El-Labbad reports

Reopening the FIS file
Two presidents and a bloody civil war in Algeria should have closed the FIS file, but the release of its two leaders, writes Amira Howeidy , gives every appearance of having reopened it

Prisoners as hostages
As Israel drags its feet on the release of Palestinian political prisoners, anger rises in the Palestinian territories, writes Khaled Amayreh

Taking one for the team
A BBC report challenges Tony Blair's chief propagandist. Both the journalist and the spin doctor survive. The real casualty is the truth behind the Iraq war, reports Mukul Devichand in London

NDP between populism and pragmatism
Democratisation, subsidies, free education and ties with the United States will all figure prominently in next September's first annual NDP conference. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Braced for new challenges
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights waited 18 years for official legal recognition. Now that it has finally arrived, Gihan Shahine tries to find out what's next

Region:

Torching the right of return
In this last of a four-part series addressing the main points of the roadmap, Muna Hamzeh argues that Israel plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinian refugees from West Bank and Gaza camps

View from above
From a remote camp in the north of Iraqi Kurdistan, prominent KADEK leader Osman Öcalan talks to Nyier Abdou about Kurdish resistance, the post-war era and the end of the nationalist fight

International:

Presidential politics by other means
The suicide bombing at the Krylya rock festival challenges the Russian attempt to install a puppet in Chechnya, reports Shohdy Naguib from Moscow

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