After ISIS, Iraq Is Still Broken
One year after the liberation of Mosul, distrust, fear, and a paralyzing sense of insecurity plague the country’s religious and ethnic minorities.
One year after the liberation of Mosul, distrust, fear, and a paralyzing sense of insecurity plague the country’s religious and ethnic minorities.
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On Facebook and in the cafés of decimated Mosul, some Iraqis envision a country free from political Islam.
Lynsey Addario, Aryn Baker, and Francesca Trianni's project 'Finding Home' has won two Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Social Media and Innovation.
Saudi women can drive now. But with a recent crackdown on the very activists who helped end the ban on women drivers, it’s unclear how much the country is prepared to change.
Alex Potter provides a rare look into Yemen’s War, where children starve and hospitals are on life-support.
The Gesher Clinic in Jaffa is down to opening nine hours a week despite the overwhelming need for mental healthcare. Its patients, many of whom survived Sinai torture camps, face an uncertain future.
Iraq’s courts have rushed to convict thousands of ISIS fighters. This is one family’s struggle for fairness, truth, and reconciliation.
Yemeni villagers recount the horror of looking for their children after a Saudi Arabian airstrike on a wedding party.
The mood is eerie on the mostly empty streets of Aden, Yemen’s southern port city and designated seat of government that has suffered three years of civil war.
Journalist Jackie Spinner reflects on returning to Morocco, the home country of her children.
A proxy war in Yemen between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and a Saudi Arabia-led coalition has led to starvation; relief supplies have been blocked to the poorest country in the region.
Gazan healthcare facilities have been strangled by an Israeli blockade since June 2007, when Hamas wrested control of Gaza from rival Fatah. Since Israel began its massive offensive against Hamas on December 27, 2008, conditions in Gaza's hospitals have faced extreme difficulty in their efforts to care for thousands...
Thousands of Iraqis risked everything to work for the U.S.-led occupation because they believed in democracy. Serving as interpreters, civil society experts and reconstruction contractors, they set out to build a new Iraq.
Today, they are targeted by insurgents as "traitors" and marked for death. Because their...
An exodus of more than 2 million Iraqis is reshaping the Middle East -- with ominous implications for the region.
Driven out of Iraq and into neighboring countries by sectarian violence, a once prosperous middle class is drawing down savings -- and fueling local resentments. The newcomers are blamed...
The poorest nation in the Arab world struggles with high population growth, 40% unemployment and a persistent flow of refugees from Somalia. In the next decade, its 22 million citizens will compete for increasingly scarce water supplies, as aquifers are drilled, pumped and drained unsustainably.
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All year, a string of car bombs, assassinations and the encampment of anti-government protesters in downtown Beirut had elevated fears that Lebanon's deepening political crisis could ignite an all-out war. Then a fierce clash erupted May 20 that pitted the national army against a surprising foe: a little-known militant...
"Iraq: Death of a Nation" examines how the U.S. invasion and occupation created a multi-faceted civil war in which the U.S. is now actively arming multiple factions. Last summer, the project focused on how Iraq's refugee crisis was created by the invasion and the fighting that has followed. This...
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Pulitzer Center grantee Uri Blau's project "“From the U.S. to Israel: Follow the Money” attracts attention of international publications, state organizations and activist groups.
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Review says Pulitzer Center grantee has gift for explaining confusing regional geopolitics with "blessed–and welcome–lucidity" in his debut book on Afghan minority community, U.S. troop withdrawal.
Pulitzer Center grantee Katherine Zoepf, executive director Jon Sawyer and contributing editor Kem Knapp Sawyer visit Northwestern University in Qatar.
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In this week's newsletter, James Harkin reports about the condition of the oppressed gay community in Syria.