ISIS May Be Gone, But Life Has Yet To Return To Normal In Northern Iraq
The graffiti in Snuny — an Iraqi city at the base of Mount Sinjar that Kurdish peshmerga fighters recently regained control of — provides a kind of shorthand for its recent history.There's black...
View ArticleNot A Group House, Not A Commune: Europe Experiments With Co-Housing
This is the latest story from the NPR Cities Project.In an abandoned building near Spain's Mediterranean coast, someone softly strums a guitar. Chord progressions echo through empty halls.It's an...
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Just 55 Miles From ISIS Control, American Expats Carry On Life As Usual
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Two big cities in northern Iraq are just 55 miles apart - Mosul and Erbil. Mosul is under the control of the...
View ArticleFrom A Mountain, Kurds Keep Watch On ISIS In Mosul
Imagine standing on top of a mountain, looking down at your home in the valley below, and being unable to go there — even for a visit.That's the situation for some Iraqi Kurds from the city of Mosul,...
View ArticleIraqi Kurds: We're Ready To Fight For Mosul
American military officials announced that they are planning an operation in April or May to free Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, from the group that calls itself the Islamic State, or ISIS. The...
View ArticleLamb Dumplings, Lentils And A Bittersweet Taste Of Home
For people living in a new country, a taste of home can be a powerful emotional experience.All the more so when you've left your country because of war.Iraq has taken in about a quarter-million people...
View ArticleBrutal ISIS Tactics Create New Levels Of Trauma Among Iraqis
At a camp for displaced people in northern Iraq, you pass rows of tents to reach the clinic run by the International Medical Corps. They have medicines to treat all kinds of problems: diabetes shots,...
View ArticleAfter 6,000 Years, Time For A Renovation At Iraq's Citadel
A map of the northern Iraqi city of Erbil looks like a dart board: circles, radiating outward from a central core. The bull's-eye sits high on a hill, crowned by ancient walls.The Erbil Citadel has...
View ArticleIn English Town, Muslims Lead Effort To Create Interfaith Haven
Inayat Omarji vividly remembers the worried reaction when he first looked into renovating the abandoned church in his neighborhood: "There's a bearded young Muslim chap involved in a church! Whoops!
View ArticleThe British Group With A Very Different Take On 'Jihadi John'
Every day new details emerge about Mohammed Emwazi, believed to be the masked man with a British accent known as "Jihadi John" who appears in execution videos by the self-declared Islamic State. At the...
View ArticleNo Big Money Or TV Ads — What's With The U.K.'s Low-Key Election?
In the U.K., national elections are less than two months away. In the U.S., the presidential election is more than a year away. But you could be forgiven for thinking it's the other way around.America...
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British Military Spending Cutbacks Spark Global Concern
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For decades, American and British leaders have criticized the rest of Europe for spending too little on...
View ArticleThe Fate Of The World's Chocolate Depends On This Spot In Rural England
Walk into a row of greenhouses in rural Britain, and a late English-winter day transforms to a swampy, humid tropical afternoon. You could be in Latin America or Sub-Saharan Africa. Which is exactly...
View ArticleWhy Russia's Economic Slump Has Been Good For London
One year ago, the U.S. and Europe started imposing sanctions against Russia to punish it for seizing part of Ukraine. At the time, many British analysts feared the sanctions would hurt London, because...
View ArticleOn Libel And The Law, U.S. And U.K. Go Separate Ways
In the U.S. this past week, HBO aired the documentary Going Clear, about the Church of Scientology, to strong reviews. The nonfiction book on which the film is based was short-listed for the National...
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Colorful Fringe Candidates Vie For Prominence In UK Election
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: In the U.S., we experience what seems like a never-ending campaign season. Almost as soon as one election...
View ArticleBritain Backs Away From World Stage In Lead-Up To Elections
In war and in diplomacy, Great Britain has always been a global leader. Next to the United States, it had the largest footprint in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade.But now, something has...
View ArticleAt 800 And Aging Well, The Magna Carta Is Still A Big Draw
The British Library is now showing original manuscripts of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the first time they've come to the United Kingdom.But those documents are not the...
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European Union Accuses Google Of Abusing Its Market Dominance
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In Europe, Google is used for 90 percent of Internet searches. This morning, European regulators accused the...
View ArticleIslanders Pushed Out For U.S. Base Hope For End To 40-Year Exile
One of the most important U.S. military bases in the world sits in the middle of the Indian Ocean on an atoll called Diego Garcia. It's the largest of the Chagos Islands, a British territory far from...
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