Soyba Hamasaeed, 47, tells the story of how she was blinded in the 1988 chemical weapons attack against the Kurds in Halabja. The attack was ordered by Saddam Hussein. Five of Hamasaeed's eight children, along with her husband, were killed. Her 12-year-old daughter, Kocharna Najmaddin, stands next to her.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
