UN fails to extend aid deliveries to Syrian rebel-held area
The U.N. Security Council failed in two rival votes Friday to extend humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to 4.1 million Syrians in the rebel-held northwest.
Middle East
A Jewish-Palestinian political coalition failed. Could it work in the future?
With elections in November, Israeli leaders are debating the just-finished political experiment that saw right-wing Jewish parties working with Arab politicians.
Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat as hajj reaches apex
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday.
A 70-year-old man in Gaza needed open heart surgery. It was a race against time
NPR journalists followed Youssef Al-Kurd and his family for months as they begged for the medical care that could save his life.
A nasty disease is even nastier for patients with HIV. Now there's encouraging news
It's called visceral leishmaniasis. It's spread by sandflies and fatal if left untreated. Fortunately, a new drug regimen holds promise.
Syrian refugees say they're feeling unwelcome in Turkey, but have nowhere else to go
Many people in Turkey are growing increasingly weary of hosting the millions of Syrian refugees that have been there for years — but the Syrians have no place to go.
News brief: parade shooting, landmark opioid lawsuit, Shireen Abu Akleh's death
A man is in custody after a shooting in Highland Park, Ill. A judge sides with three major drug distributors in an opioid case. A probe continues into the death of a Palestinian-American journalist.
U.S. and Iranian delegations fail to reach a deal to restore the Iran nuclear deal
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Robert Malley, U.S. special envoy for Iran, about negotiations aimed at restoring the deal. The talks were held last week in Doha, Qatar.
Shot that killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely fired by Israelis, U.S. says
Officials have concluded that gunfire from Israeli positions likely killed the veteran Al-Jazeera journalist in May, but that there was "no reason to believe" her shooting was intentional.
U.S. says it was likely an Israeli soldier who killed Palestinian-American journalist
The U.S. says it was likely an Israeli soldier who killed Shireen Abu Akleh, a prominent Palestinian-American journalist, shot in May. She was covering an Israeli military raid..