Iraq

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Despite Obstacles, A Yazidi Woman Is Determined To Change Her Life

1:43pm February 20, 2018

by Jane Arraf

In Iraq, it's not easy trying to navigate life as a young woman — particularly when your culture doesn't give girls many choices. Add war and poverty on top of that and it's even harder.

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Medics from a U.S. group provided care for wounded civilians during the Iraqi government's offensive to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS.

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Ethical Dilemma Over Treating Civilians Injured In The Battle For Mosul

11:12pm February 16, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

What happens if warring parties aren't able or willing to treat civilian casualties? WHO's solution made some humanitarian groups uneasy.

Najla Hussin and her mother at their makeshift home in a village of displaced Yazidis near Dohuk in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

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Yazidi Women Finally Go To School, Defying Former ISIS Rulers — And Their Own Parents

5:11pm February 14, 2018

by Jane Arraf

Some villagers considered it improper for girls to go to school. Now, after surviving the reign of ISIS, young Yazidi women in Iraq's Kurdistan region are getting an education.

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Kuwait Conference Aims To Raise Funds To Rebuild Iraq Post-ISIS

9:05am February 13, 2018

by Jane Arraf

Secretary of State Tillerson is at the meetings on rebuilding Iraq after the fight against ISIS. People say raising the money is necessary to keep radical militants from taking hold there again.

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News Brief: Senate Panel Hearing, Iraq Aid Conference

5:41am February 13, 2018

The Senate Intelligence Committee focuses on threats to the nation's security during a Tuesday hearing. And, Kuwait hosts a conference on getting aid to rebuild Iraq now that ISIS has been driven out.

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud is shown in a Columbus, Ohio, courtroom in 2015. He was arrested after traveling to Syria, then returning to Ohio, where he planned to carry out an attack. According to a new report, he's one of 12 Americans who went to join extre

Americans In ISIS: Some 300 Tried To Join, 12 Have Returned To U.S.

9:31pm February 05, 2018

by Greg Myre

Some have risen to senior positions, others died in the fighting and many remain unaccounted for, according to a report. Twelve returned, but none has carried out an attack on U.S. soil.

A Yazidi tomb in a village in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Many families were displaced when ISIS killed hundreds of men and kidnapped thousands of women and children. More than 3,000 Yazidis are still missing.

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This Man Has Freed Hundreds Of Yazidis Captured By ISIS. Thousands Remain Missing

12:53pm January 18, 2018

by Jane Arraf

His phone rarely stops ringing. Most calls and messages are from other Yazidis in Iraq's Kurdistan region, asking for help to find their relatives. Others are from people threatening to kill him.

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For refugees in Austria who choose to voluntarily go back to their countries of origin, a one-way trip to the Vienna International Airport marks the end of their journey in Europe.

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A New Approach To Refugees: Pay Them To Go Home

6:15pm January 13, 2018

by Lucy Perkins

Even though the refugee crisis in Europe reached its peak two years ago, countries are still trying to figure out what to do with the more than 150,000 refugees who want to stay in the E.U.

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Sisters Raffal, left, and Farah Khaled are first-year students at Mosul University in Iraq. They're standing outside the university library, which was burned down, along with most of its books, by ISIS when it controlled the city.

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Life After ISIS: One Sister Wants To Rebuild. The Other Can't Wait To Leave

7:16am January 07, 2018

by Jane Arraf

The Iraqi city of Mosul is now free from ISIS control. Two sisters who attend Mosul University talk about their goals for the future, and the obstacles that remain.

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This particular Mosul orphanage holds 18 children under the age of 6, some of them the abandoned children of Yazidi women kidnapped by Islamic State fighters.

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Kidnapped, Abandoned Children Turn Up At Mosul Orphanage As ISIS Battle Ends

11:31am December 27, 2017

by Jane Arraf

An orphanage in the Iraqi city of Mosul is caring for confused and unidentified children left in the wake of ISIS.

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