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Getty Photographer Witnesses Attack On Ebola Quarantine Center

10:17am August 18, 2014

When locals in Liberia's capital attacked a quarantine center housing suspected Ebola patients, a Getty images photographer happened to be there Kelly McEvers talks to John Moore about what he saw.

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Kurdish Forces Claim To Have Driven Militants From Dam

8:11am August 18, 2014

by Peter Kenyon

A major dam in northern Iraq, near the city of Mosul, is the latest flashpoint. Kurdish officials say their forces have driven militants from the dam. The militants say they're fighting to hang on.

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No Cease-Fire In Sight For Eastern Ukraine

8:11am August 18, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Fighting has intensified near two major cities held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. In Berlin, a meeting on a cease-fire ended without any breakthrough.

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Yazidi Community In America Watches Events In Iraq With Horror

6:24pm August 17, 2014

by NPR Staff

Lincoln, Neb., is home to a sizable group of Iraqi Yazidis, members of the minority group being persecuted in Iraq. One of them, Sulaiman Murad, describes the agony of watching the crisis from afar.

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Displaced Palestinian Emada al-Attar, 23, holds her 16-day-old baby boy Anous on Aug. 8 in a classroom where they sleep in a United Nations school in Gaza City. Thousands of Palestinians lost their homes in the recent fighting and are still taking refuge

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Gaza Students Wonder When Their Schools Will Reopen

1:59pm August 16, 2014

by Alice Fordham

Many were damaged in the fighting with Israel and others are still serving as shelters for Gazans who lost their homes. Even before the fighting, kids went to school in shifts owing to overcrowding.

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A health worker cleans his hands with chlorinated water before entering an Ebola screening tent at the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. More than 300 Sierra Leoneans have died of the disease.

Even With $100 Million, WHO Says It Will Take Months To Control Ebola

9:50pm August 15, 2014

by Richard Harris

The WHO has called for donations to help contain the outbreak. But money is just the first step. The challenges run from finding the right staff to prepping neighboring countries just in case.

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Russian Military Vehicles Reportedly Move Into Ukraine

8:02pm August 15, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, as government and separatist forces still fight for control of the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk.

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Iraq Has New Leadership, Al-Malaki Will Step Aside

7:36am August 15, 2014

by Peter Kenyon

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has agreed to step down. Maliki said he is not seeking a post in the new government and that he supports the nomination of Haider al-Abadi to succeed him.

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Russian Aid Convoy Parked Near Ukraine Border

7:36am August 15, 2014

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

A humanitarian aid convoy from Russia has reached the border with Ukraine. Russia is suspected of using the convoy to extend its influence there. Ukraine is battling a pro-Russian rebellion.

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China's Wanda Group Branches Out Into Entertainment

7:36am August 15, 2014

A Chinese company this week made a play to become what could be likened to The Walt Disney Company of China. Steve Inskeep talks to Clifford Coonan, Asia bureau chief for The Hollywood Reporter.

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