• Areas of Mosul are still under siege, but signs of life return

    Areas of Mosul are still under siege, but signs of life return

    Feb 04, 2017 12:48 AM EDT

    ... Signs of life are returning to those areas, while a new offensive is in the works to capture the rest from ISIS control. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson and videographer Alessandro Pavone have our report. JANE FERGUSON: Weaving through recaptured streets of Eastern Mosul, Colonel Nazar Naji takes us to the ...

  • How Trump’s immigration ban is jeopardizing one Iraqi translator’s future in America

    How Trump’s immigration ban is jeopardizing one Iraqi translator’s future in America

    Jan 31, 2017 06:35 PM EDT

    ... special visa program to emigrate here. But one former interpreter and his family find their plans to move here are now in doubt. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports from Northern Iraq. JANE FERGUSON: After seven years working with the U.S. military, Abdul Hamid Abdul Ghani has plenty of souvenirs ...

  • Aleppo’s survivors face a grim, uncertain future

    Aleppo’s survivors face a grim, uncertain future

    Dec 28, 2016 12:14 AM EDT

    ... Jane Ferguson and videographer Alessandro Pavone traveled to the Turkish-Syrian border to meet those who escaped. A warning: Some of the images are disturbing. JANE FERGUSON: These are the survivors of eastern Aleppo, battered by years of war and months of unremitting airstrikes. The lucky ones who lived through ...

  • These medical volunteers risk their lives to save Mosul’s injured

    These medical volunteers risk their lives to save Mosul’s injured

    Dec 02, 2016 12:31 AM EDT

    ... was less common? JANE FERGUSON: So, where would have gone for the surgery? PETE REED: He went in Mosul. There are still operating hospitals there. JANE FERGUSON: Inside ISIS territory? PETE REED: Yes. JANE FERGUSON: These two American volunteers, both just 27 years old, are the first and only point ...

  • News Wrap: ‘We’re still one people,’ says Obama in Thanksgiving message

    News Wrap: ‘We’re still one people,’ says Obama in Thanksgiving message

    Nov 25, 2016 12:11 AM EDT

    ... high as 100.  20 of the dead were Iranian Shiite pilgrims.  Another 45 people were injured.  I'm joined now via skype by special correspondent Jane Ferguson, who's reporting for us from northern Iraq.  Jane, what can you tell us about what happened today? JANE FERGUSON: John, among those ...

  • Outnumbered and outgunned, ISIS uses bombs to fight Iraqi forces

    Outnumbered and outgunned, ISIS uses bombs to fight Iraqi forces

    Nov 17, 2016 12:34 AM EDT

    ... is the largest in either Iraq or Syria still held by the militants, and the fight to retake it has been vicious. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson and videographer Alessandro Pavone have spent the last several days with Iraqi special forces inside the city, and sent us this report. JANE FERGUSON ...

  • Iraqis fleeing ISIS violence face hunger, explosives hidden in their homes

    Iraqis fleeing ISIS violence face hunger, explosives hidden in their homes

    Nov 16, 2016 10:11 PM EDT

    ... mattresses, even inside children’s toys. “They’ve had over two years to plan for it, and they’re bomb experts,” said NewsHour special correspondent Jane Ferguson by phone from Erbil in northern Iraq. It not only sows terror but is meant to slow the advancing troops, said Ferguson. She ...

  • In Fallujah, ISIS is gone -- but so is everything else

    In Fallujah, ISIS is gone -- but so is everything else

    Oct 07, 2016 11:59 PM EDT

    ... the city and relations with the people there is as important. Tonight, with the support again of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Jane Ferguson and producer Jon Gerberg report from one city reclaimed from ISIS where the fighting was only half the battle. JANE FERGUSON: Now an ...

  • The controversial force joining the fight against ISIS

    The controversial force joining the fight against ISIS

    Oct 05, 2016 11:15 PM EDT

    Militia groups, made up mostly of Shia fighters and often backed by Iran, have become instrumental in the charge to drive the Islamic State from Iraq. But their battlefield presence makes them a controversial force -- many militia members are accused of war crimes and have killed Americans. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports in partnership...

  • To drive ISIS from Mosul, a complicated coalition joins forces

    To drive ISIS from Mosul, a complicated coalition joins forces

    Oct 03, 2016 11:20 PM EDT

    Two years ago, Islamic State troops stormed Mosul, Iraq. Today the city is the militant group’s last remaining urban base in the country, but Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S. and others, are preparing to drive them out. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports from Qayarah, Iraq, in partnership with Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.