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Displaced demonstrators from the minority Yazidi sect demonstrate outside the United Nations offices in Irbil, Iraq, on Aug. 4 in support of those held captive by the self-proclaimed Islamic State.

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ISIS Captives Tell Of Rapes And Beatings, Plead For Help

8:57am October 03, 2014

by Leila Fadel

Activists say militants are holding hundreds, perhaps thousands of Yazidi women in northern Iraq. The women make contact through secret phones; some men have been killed or beaten trying to save them.

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Could ISIS Threats Cause Israel To Partner With Arab Nations?

7:36am October 03, 2014

Could separate threats from Islamic State militants and Iran forge a path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians? Steve Inskeep talks to Lina Khatib, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center.

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Netanyahu Defends Plan for Jewish Homes in East Jerusalem

11:03am October 02, 2014

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the U.S. Steve Inskeep talks to the Israeli leader about new Jewish housing in East Jerusalem, the recent war in Gaza and other regional issues.

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Islamic State flags on the Mullah Abdullah bridge in southern Kirkuk earlier this week. A U.N. report says the extremist group has perpetrated possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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U.N. Report Details Possible War Crimes By Islamic State Militants

10:27am October 02, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The High Commissioner for Human Rights says mass executions, forcing women and girls into sex slavery and the use of child soldiers may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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ISIS Militants Reportedly Behead Kurds In Northern Syria

12:34pm October 01, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Islamic State militants killed the seven men and three women near the besieged Kurdish town of Kobani.

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Freed From Prison After Hunger Strike, Reporter Leaves Egypt

8:01am October 01, 2014

Al Jazeera reporter Abdullah Elshamy staged a hunger strike for 147 days in prison and was eventually force fed. He tells Steve Inskeep he was tortured but was never charged with any crimes.

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U.S.-Afghanistan Security Agreement Receives Mixed Reaction

6:46pm September 30, 2014

Rachel Martin talks to U.S. ambassador James Cunningham and Sarah Chayes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about Afghanistan's new government and joint security agreement.

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Israel Justice Minister: U.S. Shouldn't Give Up On Palestinian Peace Process

6:46pm September 30, 2014

Robert Siegel speaks with Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Minister of Justice and the country's chief negotiator with the Palestinians, about the future of the failed peace process.

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University of California President Janet Napolitano.

Napolitano: ISIS Was One Of Many Similar Threats We Were Tracking

1:04pm September 30, 2014

by Carlos Watson

The former homeland security secretary and Arizona governor also talks about security improvements since the Sept. 11 attacks and the frustrations and potential solutions to the immigration debate.

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Looting Antiquities, A Fundamental Part Of ISIS' Revenue Stream

12:22am September 30, 2014

ISIS is looting, destroying and illicitly trafficking antiquities out of Iraq and Syria. Rachel Martin talks with Michael Danti, a professor of archaeology at Boston University.

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