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    Life After ISIS: The Struggle And Survival Of Yazidis
    Nofa Khudeda (left) and a neighbor in the village of Tel Qasab on the day Khudeda and her husband returned after six years in a camp for displaced Yazidis. Khudeda and her husband, Ali Edo, repaired and renovated the house, which had been looted by ISIS
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    With No Options, Displaced Iraqi Yazidis Return To Homes Destroyed In ISIS Fight

    Dec 03, 2020
    Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling to be home," says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived.
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    World
    Khaled Jamal Abdullah after running away from home to pledge allegiance to ISIS and join them as a fighter. He had just turned 16.
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    Iraqi Family Identifies Their Son As ISIS Teen At Center Of Navy War Crimes Trial

    Oct 29, 2020
    The name of the young ISIS fighter was not revealed in U.S. court proceedings and the records are sealed. NPR has identified the fighter with the help of Iraqi officials and the teenager's family.
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    World
    A woman walks past a wrecked van near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha. Local residents and medical staff told NPR that noncombatant civilians who were in the van were injured and killed last year the night of the U.S. raid on the compound of I
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    Pentagon Says 2 Men Killed In Baghdadi Raid Were Combatants But Offers Little Evidence

    Oct 27, 2020
    After NPR reported claims of civilian deaths in the operation against the ISIS chief, Central Command says the men showed "hostile intent," but it found no weapons or signs they fired at U.S. forces.
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    Obituaries
    Kuwait state television announced Tuesday that the country's ruler, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, pictured last year at the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Saudi Arabia, has died.
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    Kuwait's Emir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Dies At 91

    Sep 29, 2020
    Sheikh Sabah spent four decades as foreign minister before becoming emir in 2006. He was known as a master diplomat who tried to mediate disputes in the volatile Gulf region.
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    Law
    A group solicits funds for weapons by asking for bitcoin, according to the Department of Justice. The Trump administration says al-Qaida and affiliated groups have used such donations to fund terrorism.
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    Department Of Justice Seizes Bitcoin, Websites From Terror Groups

    Aug 13, 2020
    The DOJ calls this "the government's largest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency in the terrorism context." It also seizes websites ISIS allegedly used to sell fake face masks during the pandemic.
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    Life After ISIS: The Struggle And Survival Of Yazidis
    About 200,000 displaced Yazidis are in camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many are waiting for help to rebuild homes damaged or destroyed by ISIS in 2014.
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    A Yazidi Survivor's Struggle Shows The Pain That Endures After ISIS Attack

    Aug 08, 2020
    Six years after ISIS committed genocide against Iraq's ancient religious minority group, the Yazidis are not getting the help they need to recover.
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    Middle East
    Afghan security personnel take position on the top of a building where insurgents were hiding in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday. The day before, militants attacked a prison holding many ISIS members.
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    ISIS Attack On Afghan Prison Leaves At Least 29 Dead

    Aug 03, 2020
    About 1,000 prisoners who escaped during the attack were later found by Afghan security forces. The attack shattered a three-day ceasefire between Afghan forces and the Taliban.
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    World
    Syrians ride a motorcycle past a burnt vehicle near the northwest Syrian village of Barisha in the Idlib province of Syria, near where U.S. forces raided an ISIS compound.
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    The U.S. Investigates Possible Civilian Deaths During Baghdadi Raid In Syria

    Mar 13, 2020
    The military is conducting a credibility assessment of claims of civilian casualties during the U.S. operation against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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    National Security
    Defense Secretary Mark told NPR on Monday that the U.S. has the constitutional authority to strike Iranian proxies in Iraq and Iran on its home soil in retaliation for attacks on American forces.
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    Esper: U.S. Could Strike Iran Or Proxies 'Where Legally Available And Appropriate'

    Jan 13, 2020
    In an interview with NPR on Monday, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said if U.S. troops or interests are threatened, the U.S. will have the right to retaliate.
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    World
    A woman walks past a wrecked van near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha. Local residents and medical staff tell NPR that noncombatant civilians were killed and injured in the van the night of the U.S. raid on the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr
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    Syrians Say U.S. Helicopter Fire Killed Civilians During The Raid On Baghdadi

    Dec 03, 2019
    A Syrian man says his arm was blown off and two friends were killed by U.S. helicopter fire during the assault on ISIS's leader. A defense official said the military will review what happened.
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    National
    Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, of Eagan, Minn., shown here in December 2015, is one of nine men convicted of plotting to join the Islamic State group in Syria.
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    'They Wish Me Dead.' Convict In ISIS Case Faces Backlash For Helping Feds

    Nov 20, 2019
    Abdirizak Warsame was among nine Minnesota men who planned to travel to Syria to join ISIS. When the FBI foiled their plot, each faced a decision that would influence their sentencing.
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    Politics
    President Trump and first lady Melania Trump meet with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife, Emine Erdogan, outside the White House on Wednesday.
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    President Trump Hosts Turkey's Erdogan Despite Concerns In Congress

    Nov 13, 2019
    The U.S. president welcomed the Turkish leader to the White House for talks about Syria and also Turkey's decision to buy a Russian defense system.
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    Opinion
    A convoy of U.S. military vehicles, arriving from northern Iraq, drives past an oil pump jack in the countryside of Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on Oct. 26.
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    Opinion: Syria's Oil Output Is Low, But Here's Why It Matters

    Oct 31, 2019
    What happens to the country's resources — once a revenue stream for ISIS — will be important not to world oil markets but to the future of Syria itself, write Roger Diwan and Daniel Yergin.
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    Middle East
    The late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an undated picture released this week by the Pentagon.
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    ISIS Confirms Baghdadi's Death And Names His Successor

    Oct 31, 2019
    The Islamic State named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new leader days after ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during a U.S. raid on his compound in northwest Syria.
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    Middle East
    A U.S. military vehicle drives past an oil pump jack in the countryside of Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli. President Trump is leaving some U.S. troops in Syria, with the goal of controlling Syria's oil fields. But legal experts say exploiting the
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    If U.S. Takes Syrian Oil, It May Violate International Laws Against Pillage

    Oct 30, 2019
    President Trump is leaving some U.S. troops in Syria, with the goal of controlling Syria's oil fields. But legal experts say exploiting the oil could amount to pillaging — a war crime.
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    Middle East
    Iraqi youth watch the news about ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death, in Najaf, Iraq, on Sunday.
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    'We Didn't See A Body': Baghdadi's Death Draws Doubts In Lands Where ISIS Ruled

    Oct 29, 2019
    In Iraq and Syria, the ISIS leader's death has stirred a mix of responses — from joy to disbelief to dread that the militants will rise again.
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    National Security
    U.S. military vehicles drive on a road in the town of Tal Tamr on Sunday after pulling out of a base in northern Syria. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says some troops may remain in northeast Syria to secure oil fields.
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    Some U.S. Troops May Remain In Northeast Syria To Protect Oil Fields

    Oct 21, 2019
    Other U.S. troops will pivot to fighting ISIS in Iraq rather than immediately heading home. Some 300,000 people have reportedly been displaced since Turkey's offensive began.
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    Middle East
    Syrians bury Syrian Democratic Forces fighters killed while battling Turkish forces in the town of Qamishli on Saturday. Turkey's military says it has captured a key Syrian border town as its offensive against Kurdish fighters presses on.
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    Turkey Claims To Have Won A Key Syrian Border Town From Kurdish Forces

    Oct 12, 2019
    Heading into a fourth day of military attacks on northern Syria, Turkish officials say forces have captured Ras al-Ayn and several surrounding villages. But reports indicate fighting continues.
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    Middle East
    U.S. allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces say the White House's decision to pull troops from the Syria-Turkey border has left them without hope. Here, a U.S. soldier is seen during a joint patrol with Turkish troops on Friday.
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    'Shocking': Trump Is Criticized For Pulling Troops From Syrian Border

    Oct 07, 2019
    Kurdish allies of the U.S. say the president's decision is "shocking." Sen. Lindsey Graham says Trump is doing "EXACTLY what President Obama did in Iraq with even more disastrous consequences."
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    National Security
    The inmate population at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, once stood at nearly 700 but has since dwindled to 40.
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    Trump Rules Out Sending Captured ISIS Fighters To Guantánamo Bay

    Sep 20, 2019
    Few foreign ISIS fighters captured in Syria and Iraq have been repatriated. Unless European allies accept nationals who are ISIS prisoners of war, Trump said, "we're releasing them at the border."
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    Book Reviews
    <em>They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate,</em> by James Verini
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    'They Will Have To Die Now' Is A Bare-Knuckles Account Of The Fight Against ISIS

    Sep 20, 2019
    James Verini's book will stand up with some of the best war reporting, as he takes an unblinking look at the dirtiest kind of battle — urban combat — and the human wreckage it leaves in its wake.
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    National
    ISIS attacks abroad and a series of deadly right-wing attacks in the U.S. have fueled a demand for more information on extremist networks. Understanding them is the first step in fighting them. But there has been little discussion about potential harm to
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    'It Gets To You.' Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work

    Sep 20, 2019
    Day after day, researchers are immersed in the propaganda of ISIS and neo-Nazi factions. But there's almost no discussion of the mental toll of examining the world's most dangerous extremists.
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    National
    Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher walks into a military court building in San Diego along with his wife, Andrea Gallagher, on Tuesday. A military jury acquitted him of all but one count of war crimes — posing with the body of a dead 1
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    Navy SEAL Acquitted Of Murder After Witness Claims To Have Killed ISIS Captive

    Jul 02, 2019
    A fellow SEAL had shocked the courtroom by claiming that he, not Edward Gallagher, killed the captive. The jury convicted Gallagher on one charge — posing with the body of the dead prisoner.
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    Middle East
    Laundry dries on a chain link fence in an area for foreign families of suspected ISIS fighters at al-Hol camp in Hassakeh province, Syria.
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    Thousands Of ISIS Fighters Must Be Tried Or Let Go, U.N. Rights Chief Says

    Jun 24, 2019
    Also, the family members of suspected fighters "should be repatriated, unless they are to be prosecuted for crimes" according to international standards, Michelle Bachelet said.
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    Law
    Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher and his wife, Andrea Gallagher, arrive at military court on Naval Base San Diego on Thursday. A witness stunned prosecutors after testifying that he, not Gallagher, killed an ISIS fighter in 2017.
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    Shocking Revelation In Navy SEAL War Crimes Trial: Witness Says He Is The Real Killer

    Jun 20, 2019
    Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott stunned prosecutors as he described a previously unheard version of events, saying he asphyxiated the teenage Islamic fighter as an act of mercy.
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