Iraqis have been protesting over faltering public services and lack of jobs in Basra, the country's main port city and the heart of its southern oil fields.
American universities have created a consortium that offers temporary academic homes for refugee scholars threatened by war and authoritarian governments.
Frustrated that the oil-rich Iraqi city hasn't provided clean water, steady electricity and jobs, demonstrators set fire this week to government buildings as well as political and militia offices.
Nicholas Slatten was previously found guilty in the 2007 mass shooting of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, but that conviction was overturned last year. Now his retrial has ended in a hung jury.
He was injured as a baby and doctors were able to save his life, but not his leg. Now a teenager, he's in Oregon for a second time, hoping for a second prosthesis to replace the one he outgrew.
During the many years U.S. troops have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, locals have served as interpreters and other capacities at considerable risk to themselves and their families. Many have been allowed to immigrate to the U.S., but the Trump administration has greatly reduced those numbers.
In the message, which is nearly an hour long, the speaker says he knows followers are suffering from "hunger and fear" and urges patience. He also calls on them to engage in small-scale attacks.
More than a year after ISIS was driven out, residents are doing their best to rebuild in historic neighborhoods left in rubble. "Even if no one else came back," a shopkeeper says, "I would come back."
She escaped from forced sexual slavery and became a voice for captive women and girls. Now a United Nations goodwill ambassador, Murad has announced that she is marrying a human rights activist.
More than a year after the end of the battle of Mosul, the large Iraqi city still has neighborhoods in rubble and a traumatized people trying to rebuild their lives.