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Protesters Storm Baghdad's Green Zone Again; Dozens Reportedly Injured

3:58pm May 20, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Iraq's interior ministry said "indirect fire" and tear gas were used against the scores of demonstrators in the heavily fortified area of the capital. The government declared a citywide curfew.

An Iraqi man displays steel pellets at the site of a suicide bombing Tuesday in the Shaab area of Baghdad.

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4 Blasts In Baghdad Kill Scores Of People

9:45am May 17, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Outdoor markets in two Shiite neighborhoods were struck by blasts on Tuesday. A suicide bomber hit a third neighborhood. Then an SUV exploded in Sadr City, another Shiite region of the capital.

Iraqis look at the damage following a car bomb attack in Sadr City, a Shiite area north of the capital, Baghdad, on Wednesday.

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Suicide Bombings In Baghdad Kill More Than 85 People

4:07pm May 11, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The Islamic State has claimed that it carried out three attacks in different parts of the Iraqi capital. Two of the bombings targeted checkpoints, while another hit a crowded outdoor market.

Map: 19.2 Million People Were Newly Displaced By Disasters In 2015

They're The Invisible Ones: Refugees Who Aren't Officially Refugees

12:20pm May 11, 2016

by Jason Beaubien

Nearly 28 million people were displaced within their own country last year by conflict and natural catastrophe. And they're especially hard to help.

U.S. Navy air wing captains pause on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt last September. Every day, the steam-powered catapult aboard this massive ship flings American fighter jets into the sky, on missions to target the extremi

U.S. Army Captain Is Suing Obama Over Legality Of The War Against ISIS

1:29pm May 05, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Capt. Nathan Michael Smith, who is currently on active duty in Kuwait, says he is concerned that an "illegal" war "forces him to violate his oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution."

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U.S. Service Member Killed As ISIS Attacks Iraqi Kurdish Forces

4:25pm May 03, 2016

by Tom Bowman

An American service member was killed on Tuesday after an ISIS attack broke through Iraqi Kurdish defensive lines north of the city of Mosul. Kurdish Peshmerga troops also were killed and wounded. The U.S. responded with air support to beat back the attack, but fighting continued in an offensive the U.S. says was an attempt by ISIS to "show its teeth."

U.S. Mission In Iraq Called Into Question After Death Of Service Member

4:25pm May 03, 2016

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Fred Kaplan of Slate about the American mission in Iraq. President Obama vowed the U.S. would not have a combat role when he sent American forces back to Iraq to fight ISIS.

Moyaad Saad, a 43-year-old former civil servant from Baghdad, feeds his 6-month-old daughter Zahara on their cot in a giant tent at a makeshift migrant camp near the border between Greece and Macedonia. Thousands of asylum seekers are now stuck here after

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As Europe Closes Door To Refugees, Tough Choices For 2 Fathers

12:42pm May 03, 2016

by Joanna Kakissis

Thousands are stranded in Greece, on what they'd hoped would be the road to a new life. "I cannot provide for my family," says one father of young children.

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Kurdish Regional Government Peshmergas attend a military training exercise conducted by U.S.-led coalition trainers at the Bnaslawa military training camp in Irbil, Iraq, in March.

U.S. Navy SEAL Is Killed In ISIS Attack In Northern Iraq

11:24am May 03, 2016

by Bill Chappell

The SEAL died after ISIS fighters broke through Kurdish defensive lines with a complex attack involving car or truck bombs and subsequent infantry-style raids, Defense Department officials say.

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Protesters Rush Parliament Inside Baghdad's Green Zone

6:42pm May 02, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Loveday Morris, Baghdad bureau chief at the Washington Post, about Muqtada al-Sadr's supporters flooding the city's green zone and the Shiite cleric's return.

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