Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai met with girls victimized by ISIS and encouraged them to overcome violence the way she did. Her trip to Iraq happened as she turned 20.
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Serdar Kilic, Turkish ambassador to the U.S., about the response to NPR's interview with Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen and the first-year anniversary of the July 15 coup attempt.
Turkey is marking the one-year anniversary this week of an attempted coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. NPR has the story of one victim of the Turkish government's sweeping crackdown after last year's attempted coup.
Sen. Mitch McConnell is planning to release a new version of the GOP health care bill Thursday. Also, President Trump is in France for talks, and human rights activist Malala Yousafzai visits Iraq.
The forces aligned with Iraq's government allegedly used crude, imprecise weapons that caused an unnecessary level of civilian casualties in the fight against ISIS, the U.K.-based rights group says.
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Andrew Croft tells NPR's Steve Inskeep about the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, which the Iraqi government says is over after ISIS was expelled.