UPDATED: It took months of planning and unanticipated hangups at border crossings, but the Four Paws International team led by Amir Khalil succeeded in removing Lula the bear and Simba the lion from their confines at the damaged Mosul zoo…
The Pentagon has authorized the deployment of 400 additional troops to Syria in the ongoing fight against the Islamic State militant group. Judy Woodruff discusses the U.S.'s deepening military involvement and the complexities with former Defense Department official Andrew Exum…
In our news wrap Thursday, British police identified the man who drove a car into pedestrians near Parliament yesterday, and fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot to death. Also, Israeli police arrested a Jewish teenager who is allegedly…
In our news wrap Tuesday, you would never know there's less than a week to go before the start of spring. A late winter storm dropped snow and sleet on the East Coast at a furious pace with high winds.
A Norwegian volunteer medic writes "Make Mosul Great Again" on the base of a destroyed Islamic State billboard in west Mosul. Iraqi forces are advancing into west Mosul, part of an offensive to retake the city in March 2017, some…
An Iraqi special forces soldier fires at a drone operated by Islamic State militants Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq on March 4. …
A boy, who just fled a village controlled by Islamic State fighters, cries as he sits with his family inside a bus before heading to the camp at Hammam Ali south of Mosul, Iraq.
The Iraqi army has been fighting for four months to drive the Islamic State out of Mosul, the country's second-largest city. And Iraq's air force has carried out its first-ever air strikes on ISIS positions inside neighboring Syria. Wall Street…
The Iraqi advance into Mosul's western half slowed Saturday as combat turned to urban warfare and Iraqi forces met stiff resistance from the Islamic State group.
Aid groups are discovering that many Iraqis want to stay in their homes, rather than venturing to temporary camps. “We’re not able to get into western Mosul, but we can only predict that the situation there remains dire," said Su’ad…
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