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Hobby Lobby agreed earlier this month to a forfeiture of smuggled artifacts.

Israeli Authorities Arrest Antiquities Dealers In Connection With Hobby Lobby Scandal

5:04pm July 31, 2017

by Daniel Estrin

Israel's Antiquities Authority says the dealers, arrested early Sunday morning, were involved in sales of antiquities to Hobby Lobby — including items that U.S. authorities determined were smuggled.

Security forces respond at the site of an attack on the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

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ISIS Claims Responsibility For Attack On Iraqi Embassy In Afghanistan

4:19pm July 31, 2017

by Scott Neuman

The Islamic State says its fighters carried out the attack on the embassy compound in Kabul, which began with a bomb explosion at the gates and ended with an hours-long gunbattle.

Malala cuts a birthday cake in the shape of a book at a restaurant in Dohuk. The youngest Nobel laureate turned 20 on July 12 in Dohuk, five years after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan.

For Malala, Now 20, Birthdays Are Best Spent With Girls Who Dream Big

7:50am July 30, 2017

by Jane Arraf

The world's youngest Nobel laureate spent her 20th birthday this month with displaced Yazidi girls in northern Iraq. She spends each birthday with girls who are struggling to get an education.

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A world map showing the percentage of children less than a year old who don't get the DTP immunization.

New Report Shows 64 Of 195 Countries Aren't Meeting A Basic Vaccination Target

6:08pm July 25, 2017

by Rina Shaikh-Lesko

The goal is to reach 90 percent of children with the DTP vaccination — a child's first scheduled immunization. Some countries are barely at 50 percent.

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Iraqi Civil Defense Workers Recover The Dead From Mosul Battles

7:49am July 25, 2017

by Jane Arraf

They do their work without having been paid for years. Many had to live under ISIS. The number of civilians killed by ISIS or by mortar and air strikes from U.S. and Iraqi forces still isn't known.

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The Call-In: Iraq, Then And Now

8:05am July 23, 2017

We hear from veteran Charles Diamond who served in Mosul, Jane Arraf compares Mosul today to before ISIS, and former Obama administration official Andrew Exum talks about the U.S. military's role.

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Iraqi Kurds Schedule Independence Referendum For September

4:27pm July 21, 2017

In September, Iraqi Kurds have scheduled an independence referendum. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group about the prospects for Kurdish independence.

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Manal Idrees, a former resident of west Mosul, returns to the Old City on a grim mission to try to find the body of her son. She says he was beheaded by ISIS because his uncles were police officers.

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In Mosul, Grim Homecomings And A Struggle To Survive In A City Now Free From ISIS

1:10pm July 21, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Civil defense workers have recovered more than 1,400 bodies of civilians in west Mosul. Relatives are searching for the bodies of loved ones in a landscape so devastated they can barely recognize it.

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In Mosul, Fighting Continues After Iraqi Government Declared Victory Over ISIS

4:28pm July 17, 2017

by Jane Arraf

A week after the Iraqi government declared victory over ISIS in Mosul, there's still fighting and ruins engulfing the dead. Now reporters are banned from the area where the worst fighting took place.

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Fighting In Mosul Continues Despite Iraq's Claim Of Victory Over ISIS

5:01am July 17, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Supplies for government troops are said to be low, bodies of civilians remain in the streets and authorities banned journalists from the old city, which has been ruined in the battles.