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U.S. says Russia is planning a false flag attack against Ukraine

6:04pm February 03, 2022

by Michele Kelemen

The White House says Russia is planning a false flag operation to justify a further invasion of Ukraine. The State Department suggested Russia may be making a video of a fake attack to pin on Ukraine.

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7 years later, parents of missing Ayotzinapa students are still searching for answers

5:53pm February 03, 2022

NPR's Tamara Keith talks with Reveal reporter Anayansi Diaz-Cortes about the podcast After Ayotzinapa. The show digs into the 2014 disappearance of a group of young men at a rural Mexican college.

NBC is in an awkward position with the politics around the Beijing Olympics

5:44pm February 03, 2022

by David Folkenflik

While the Olympics often feel like a victory lap for NBC, the games' exclusive broadcaster in the U.S., the politics surrounding Beijing 2022 have put the network in an uncomfortable spot.

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The head of the Islamic State Militant Group is dead. Here's what that means for ISIS

5:44pm February 03, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute about what the U.S. strike in Syria Wednesday night means for the future of ISIS.

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What the raid in Syria signals about U.S. involvement in 'forever wars' going forward

5:44pm February 03, 2022

by Greg Myre

President Biden has spoken about his hope to end U.S. involvement in "forever wars" in the Middle East. But on Wednesday, a U.S. raid in Syria led to the death of the leader of the Islamic State.

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Kuçar shows text messages he exchanged with his wife Meryem Aimati the night she was detained from her home in Xinjiang. "The police are at the door," she wrote.

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Uyghur kids recall physical and mental torment at Chinese boarding schools in Xinjiang

5:22pm February 03, 2022

by Emily Feng

Being hit, locked in a dark room and forced to hold a stress position — two small Uyghur children recount abusive experiences in boarding school in Xinjiang, where they also lost their mother tongues.

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Russia's Putin and China's Xi will meet in Beijing ahead of Olympics opening ceremony

5:22pm February 03, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are meeting Friday in Beijing on the eve of the Winter Olympics.

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In this image provided by the White House, President Biden and Vice President Harris and members of the president's national security team observe from the White House Situation Room on Wednesday the counterterrorism operation responsible for removing fro

Biden says ISIS leader is dead after U.S. operation

5:14pm February 03, 2022

by Peter Granitz

A senior administration official said that during the raid, Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi "detonated a blast ... killing himself and several others, including his wife and children."

People walk past the Birds Nest stadium in Beijing on Feb. 4, 2021. Exactly a year later, it is hosting the opening ceremony for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The Winter Olympics start Friday. Here's how to follow along

4:45pm February 03, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The 2022 Olympics kick off in Beijing on Friday. Here's how to watch the opening ceremony and follow NPR's coverage for the next two weeks.

People check a destroyed house after a U.S. military operation in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, on Thursday. U.S. special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a successful, large-scale counterterrorism raid. Local residents and

What is known about the ISIS leader who died during a U.S. raid in Syria

12:31pm February 03, 2022

by The Associated Press

The leader of the Islamic State group who died during a U.S. raid overnight in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with almost no known photos, never appearing in public or in the group's videos.