Under ISIS, Life In Mosul Takes A Turn For The Bleak
Thousands of Sunni Arabs from Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, escaped to Erbil at the end of the summer when the militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State first overran the city and imposed a...
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There are golf carts and palm trees and an Olympic-sized pool at the Mohammed Bin Naif Counseling and Care Center, a sprawling complex on the outskirts of Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh.Once a holiday...
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Once a sleepy border town, Reyhanli, Turkey, is now bursting with Syrian refugees, many of them school-age. More than a half a million Syrian refugee children are out of school, and the education...
View ArticleLast Armenian Village In Turkey Keeps Silent About 1915 Slaughter
A hundred years ago this week, the Ottoman Empire began the killings and forced marches of Armenians in what most historians call the first genocide of the 20th century.Turkey staunchly denies that...
View ArticleSaudi Women Can't Drive To Work; So They're Flocking To The Internet
In a country where women are prohibited from driving themselves to work, technology is opening new avenues to the job market in Saudi Arabia.Thousands of women use Instagram, the popular photo-sharing...
View ArticleFor Yemen's Ousted President, A Five-Star Exile With No End In Sight
When Houthi rebels stormed Yemen's capital in January, President Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi was driven from power and placed under house arrest. He escaped and then fled by sea in March. Now, Hadi and his...
View ArticleDocumenting Death Inside Syria's Secret Prisons
A Syrian forensic photographer, who now uses the pseudonym Caesar, documented the death of thousands of detainees in Syria's brutal prison system. He made more than 55,000 high-resolution images before...
View ArticleAs Challenges Shift, Syria's Moderates Navigate Unexpected Territory
When Syrian activists launched an uprising in 2011, their goal was clear: to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad. Now, as the war grinds into a fifth year, with more than 200,000 dead and...
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Turkey Grants U.S. Permission To Use Air Base Near Syrian Border
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Turkey is getting more serious about fighting the self-declared Islamic State. For the first time, Turkish war...
View ArticleA Syrian Refugee School: Nearly 2,000 Students, 5 Shifts, 3 Languages
It's the summer session at the Al Salam School in Reyhanli, a town in southern Turkey, just across the border from Syria. A group of girls are practicing their shots on the outdoor basketball court. A...
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