ISIS Still Holds Thousands of Slaves, Giving Brisk Business to Human Smugglers
With local military forces stretched thin, the rescue of hundreds of Yazidis held by ISIS in Iraq and Syria have largely fallen to the Yazidi community itself.
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With local military forces stretched thin, the rescue of hundreds of Yazidis held by ISIS in Iraq and Syria have largely fallen to the Yazidi community itself.
Amsha Ali Alyas was one of the first Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS who managed to escape. Nearly one year later, a look at how she and her young family are trying to move on.
BBC Newshour interviews Michael Scott Moore, Pulitzer Center grantee who was kidnapped by Somali pirates and held for 977 days.
Sebastian Meyer profiles a family of displaced Yazidis refugees in northern Iraq who make a potentially lethal living running a small oil refinery.
Michael Scott Moore was kidnapped by Somali pirates in 2012. For the first time, he tells the story of his abduction, detention and eventual release.
Nuclear talks at UN end in failure amid strife over Israel, a proposed Middle East ban on WMD and attacks on the failure of nuclear-weapons states to take meaningful steps toward disarmament.
With the deadly suicide bombing of a Saudi mosque, the Islamic State may be debuting a new strategy: lone-wolf attacks inside the kingdom.
While in Pakistan reporting on polio, reporter Tim McGirk has an unexpected "dinner" with the father of the country's nuclear weapons program.
Saudis are cheering on the war in Yemen. But will they still be celebrating when the kingdom turns up the heat on the Islamic State?
In 2001, two unlikely friends created a music festival in Mali that drew the likes of Bono and Robert Plant. Then radical Islam tore them apart.
Despite death threats and firebombs, Aziz Royesh and his school are symbols of success in a country that is starving for education.
To ransom or not? In the US/European debate Pulitzer Center grantee Michael Scott Moore speaks from experience. The German-American freelancer spent 32 months as a captive of Somali pirates.