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Why ISIS Would Be Motivated To Strike Inside Turkey

6:23am June 29, 2016

Dozens of people were killed during an attack on Istanbul's main airport on Tuesday. Steve Inskeep talks to terrorism expert Henri Barkey of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

People wait outside the Ataturk airport in Istanbul, where dozens have died in an attack on Tuesday.

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Attack At Istanbul's International Airport Kills More Than 30 People

8:47pm June 28, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Several videos have emerged that show security-camera footage of the attack. In one, dozens of people flee just before a fiery blast hits the check-in area.

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Benghazi Committee Faults Military Response To 2012 Attack

1:58pm June 28, 2016

by Brian Naylor

The 800-page report follows a lengthy and politically contentious investigation that had thrust Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state into the spotlight.

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Iraqi Forces Defeat Islamic State In Fallujah

6:30pm June 27, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Loveday Morris, Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, about the latest on the offensive by Iraqi forces in Fallujah.

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Israeli security forces inspect the crime scene in Jaffa after a Palestinian stabbed and killed an American on March 8. The attacker was shot and killed by a volunteer policeman.

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For Israel's Volunteer Police, Many Powers But Little Oversight

5:23pm June 26, 2016

by Emily Harris

Most of the police you see on the streets in Israel are actually citizen volunteers. They outnumber the country's 30,000 professional officers.

During Ramadan In Cairo, It's Eat, Pray, Drum

5:23pm June 26, 2016

by Leila Fadel

Drummers travel Cairo's streets every morning during the Ramadan holiday month and wake people for their pre-dawn meal. NPR's Leila Fadel went along with one of them.

Displaced Iraqis from the Fallujah area wait to fill jerrycans with water at a camp on June 22, 2016.

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Iraqi Forces Claim Victory Over ISIS In Fallujah

1:11pm June 26, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Iraqi forces say they have wrested control of Fallujah from Islamic State militants after nearly 5 weeks of intense fighting. The militant group has controlled the city for the past 2 ½ years.

Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the popemobile after an open-air mass in Armenia's second-largest city of Gyumri on Saturday.

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Pope Francis Urges World To Never Forget Armenian Genocide

12:26pm June 25, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

His characterization of the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians is likely to cause tensions with Turkey. He was not expected to use the term but then ad-libbed it into his prepared remarks.

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A waiter carries Champagne during the 'Salon Prive' event at Syon Park stately home in 2014 in London, England.

#NPRreads: Drink In These 3 Stories This Weekend

9:57am June 25, 2016

June 18, 2016 • Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

In Syria, Underground Efforts To Train Doctors Amid Regime Attacks

4:30pm June 21, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to reporter Ben Taub of The New Yorker about efforts to spread medical knowledge in Syria. Taub chronicles underground efforts to train doctors in Syria amid ongoing attacks by regime forces against medical personnel and facilities.