Middle East

Rouhani Signals New Cooperation Possible Between Iran And U.S.

9:13am September 27, 2015

Correspondent Steve Inskeep sat down with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani about his country's relations with the U.S., the landmark nuclear deal, and cooperating with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS. Inskeep speaks with NPR's Rachel Martin about their conversation.

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Many of animals sold for the holiday are freshly shampooed and decorated with blobs of orange henna and garlands of brightly colored plastic flowers.

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In Islamabad, Ancient Meets Modern As Farm Animals Come To Town

9:13am September 27, 2015

by Philip Reeves

Pakistan's modern capitol has wide highways and shiny shopping malls — and now thousands of farm animals, brought to the city for sacrifice on one of the most important Islamic holidays, Eid al-Adha.

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A Syrian refugee mother comforts her daughter after they spent the night in a parking lot on the Austrian side of the Hungarian-Austrian border. More than 4 million Syrians have fled the civil war in their devastated homeland, and such crises can take dec

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Imagine It's The Year 2045. Will The Syrian Refugee Crisis Be Resolved?

6:52pm September 26, 2015

by Hannah Bloch

Refugee crises start as short-term emergencies, like Afghanistan in 1979. Then they become a challenge for decades — like Afghan refugees today, and perhaps Syrian refugees in the years to come.

Report Compiles Stories Of Islamic State Defectors

1:46pm September 26, 2015

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Peter Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, about the ICSR report detailing the personal accounts of Islamic State defectors.

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Resettled Syrian Says She's A Migrant, Not A Refugee

1:46pm September 26, 2015

The terms are a source of confusion. While Tahla Deiry may not like being called a refugee, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, she is one because she fled armed conflict.

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Crush Of Migrants At Common Border Reignites Serbia-Croatia Hostility

11:46am September 26, 2015

by Joanna Kakissis

The strain of coping with asylum seekers on their joint border is causing Serbia and Croatia to invoke retaliatory frontier restrictions — and recall their bitter political history.

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In Brazil, Syrian Refugees Retrace Migration Trails

7:43am September 26, 2015

by Catherine Osborn

Since Syria's civil war, Brazil has quietly accepted more Syrian refugees than any other country in Latin America. Those refugees are now building new lives and connecting with Syrian history there.

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Syrian Rebels Trained By U.S. Gave Equipment To Al Nusra Front

9:30pm September 25, 2015

by Laura Wagner

U.S. Central Command says the rebel fighters apparently turned over the equipment in return for safe passage in the region.

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Up In Northeastern Turkey, The Whistles Of A Secret Language

7:18pm September 25, 2015

Onur Guentuerkuen, a biological psychologist at Bochum University in Germany, has studied the Turkish whistling language. It can be understood up to almost four miles away.

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More Than 700 Hajj Worshippers Killed In Stampede Near Mecca

2:20pm September 25, 2015

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Associated Press reporter Aya Batrawy about the stampede that killed hundreds of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia. She was an eyewitness to the aftermath and discusses the cause.

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