Oct 07 Watch News Wrap: Kurds protest Turkish government for protection against Islamic State By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that a Syrian border town would likely fall to the Islamic State after a night of heavy fighting with Kurdish defenders. In Turkey, Paris and Brussels, Kurds protested the… Continue watching
Oct 07 15-year-old girl recounts her brutal capture and narrow escape from Islamic State group By Noreen Nasir, Toby Muse For 15-year-old Samia, there's not much left in Iraq after her brother was killed. She tells her story about escaping the Islamic State militants. Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Yazidi girl on her escape from Islamic State militants By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch News Wrap: Neuroscientists to share Nobel in Medicine for discovering brain's 'GPS' By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three neuroscientists for discovering the brain system that helps people orient themselves. Also, pro-democracy protests seemed to wane in Hong Kong. Talks have begun between the government… Continue watching
Oct 06 U.S. teen arrested for trying to join Islamic State By Justin Scuiletti Authorities arrested a 19-year-old Saturday in Chicago, alleging that the teen was attempting to fly overseas to join the Islamic State group, also sometimes known as ISIL. Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch The War on ISIS: Where in the Middle East is the Islamic State making gains? By PBS News Hour Islamic State jihadists made several gains in cities throughout the Middle East over the past week and was met with powerful resistance in others. To try to make sense of what’s occurring on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq, former… Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch Before ISIS: A history of beheadings to terrify, punish By PBS News Hour ISIS' release of yet another videotape showing the beheading of a western hostage has once again drawn international condemnation and refocused attention on the very practice. In fact, beheadings date back to ancient times, and today, they are hardly limited… Continue watching
Oct 04 U.S.: Militants use beheadings to make up for losses By Lara Jakes, Associated Press Within days of a military defeat, the group would release images of more beheadings - at least nine over six weeks - of Western journalists, aid workers and Muslim soldiers. The tactic signals that even as the Islamic State group… Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch Why is Turkey reluctant to fight the Islamic State? By PBS News Hour Islamic State militants continue to advance along the Syria-Turkey border, despite ongoing U.S. airstrikes supported by regional allies. Judy Woodruff sits down with chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner for more on Turkey’s complicated relationships to the Syrian conflict, its… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch News Wrap: Violence erupts between police and protesters in Hong Kong By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, violence erupted between pro-democracy protesters and Hong Kong police, who have confronted each other in the streets for six straight days. Also, students and their supporters in one Colorado county will resume protests against new… Continue watching