Obama Awards Medal Of Honor To Army Captain For Afghanistan Service
President Obama awards the Medal of Honor to the 10th living recipient, Army Capt. Florent Groberg, for conspicuous gallantry during his service in Afghanistan.
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Kurdish Fighters Roll Toward Sinjar In Battle To Retake Strategic Iraqi Town
NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with BuzzFeed photographer Ayman Oghanna about Kurdish fighters' efforts to retake Sinjar, Iraq, from ISIS.
Kurdish Forces In Iraq Begin Offensive To Retake Sinjar From ISIS
Iraqi Kurdish fighters, with support from US troops and warplanes, have begun an offensive in northern Iraq aimed at recapturing a key area west of the city of Mosul, severing the link with northern Syria. ISIS says it will fight to the last man. The latest on the ongoing operation and its significance in the wider war against the Islamic State.
Established Veterans Groups Fight To Attract The Next Generation
Veterans organizations, like the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, are losing their older memberships while struggling to engage younger veterans, who want more activity-based groups.
Egypt's Investigation Into Russian Airliner Crash Shrouded In Secrecy
Officials attempts to prevent press from talking to people at the Sharm el-Sheikh airport, and Egypt's reluctance to say a bomb could have caused the crash, raise concerns about its investigation.
U.S. Investigation Into Russian Airliner Crash Raises Possible ISIS Link
U.S. officials haven't determined why Metrojet Flight 9268 went down near Sharm el-Sheikh, but their working theory is an airport employee may have helped a terrorist group get a bomb on the plane.
Protesters Flood Kabul Streets After Beheading Of 7 Afghan Hazaras
NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Mujib Mashal, a reporter with The New York Times, about the beheadings of civilians from the Hazara ethnic minority, possibly by ISIS-linked militants.
Intelligence Community Rethinks Strategy After Russian Military Moves
NATO's supreme commander says the quality of western intelligence about Russia has declined since the Cold War's end, and that the West was caught off guard by Russia's actions in Ukraine and Syria.
Activists In Raqqa, Syria, Use Social Media To Document ISIS Violence
NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to the director and co-founder of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a group of activists who use social media to document atrocities committed by ISIS.
Authorities Provide Few Details On Attack At Police Training Center In Jordan
Two Jordanian families mourn sons after the attack on a police training center in Jordan. And as U.S. and Jordanian authorities reveal little, neither family knows exactly how, or why, the men died.