Middle East

Tensions Rise Between Turkey And U.S. After Trump Sanctions

5:08pm August 12, 2018

by Peter Kenyon

Tensions between the U.S. and Turkey have been escalating over the weekend, after the U.S. imposed sanctions against Turkey for continuing to hold an American pastor in custody.

Palestinians receive aid at a United Nations food distribution center in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip this week.

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Trump May Cut Suspended Aid To Palestinians Soon

6:10pm August 10, 2018

by Daniel Estrin

After freezing millions of dollars in assistance, the Trump administration may be on the verge of formally cutting off the aid.

After Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen in 2015, people carry the body of a child uncovered from under the rubble. The United Nations has declared Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis. When Yemen's war began, Nageeb Alomari decided to bring his wife

A Yemeni-American Wanted To Bring His Family Home. Then Came The Travel Ban.

4:25pm August 10, 2018

by Kelly McEvers

Nageeb Alomari is an American citizen from Yemen. When the civil war started there, Alomari decided to bring his wife and daughters to the U.S. But then President Trump imposed the travel ban.

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Deadly Airstrike By Saudi-Led Coalition Hits School Bus In Yemen

11:38am August 10, 2018

Rachel Martin speaks with Lise Grande of the United Nations in Yemen about another terrible turn in the war in Yemen: an airstrike has killed dozens of children travelling on a bus.

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A man carries a wounded child to the hospital Thursday after the Saudi-led coalition carried out an airstrike on a crowded area in Houthi-controlled Saada province. At least 29 children under the age of 15 were killed in the attack, according to the Inter

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Saudi-led Coalition Strikes School Bus In Yemen, Killing At Least 29 Children

6:24pm August 09, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The children were on a field trip when the airstrike hit their bus in Saada province, aid groups say. The coalition, which is backed by the U.S., says the strike was a "legitimate military action."

An explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City early Thursday.

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Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza After Hamas Launches Rocket Attacks

9:09am August 09, 2018

by Scott Neuman

At least three people are reportedly dead and a dozen injured in the Gaza Strip, while at least 11 people reportedly were wounded when Hamas rockets landed in the southern Israeli city of Sderot.

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Tension Escalates After Canada Criticizes Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Record

7:29am August 09, 2018

by Jackie Northam

Saudi Arabia continues to strike back at Canada for criticizing the kingdom's human rights record. The Canadian prime minister says his country will keep speaking out.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seen at a conference earlier this year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

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Amid Spat With Saudis, Trudeau Vows That Canada 'Will Always Speak Strongly'

10:08pm August 08, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Since Canada's top diplomat criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights record, the Saudis have hit back hard. Still, despite the retaliations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sees no need to say sorry.

Tania Joya walks on the beach in Egypt in 2012. When her American husband John Georgelas joined the Islamic State in Syria in 2013, she fled with their children and returned to Texas, where she has built a new life.

To Syria And Back: How 2 Women Escaped Their Radicalized Husbands

7:55pm August 08, 2018

by Greg Myre

Few have returned to the U.S. after traveling to Syria and Iraq, where they were linked to extremists. Two are women who say their husbands forced them to go, along with their small children.

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Prisoners including members of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood wait inside a glass dock during their trial in Cairo on July 28. Egypt's courts have held mass trials of hundreds of defendants, sentencing many of them to death.

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U.S. Military Aid To Egypt Gives A 'Green Light' To Repression, Say Rights Advocates

7:31pm August 08, 2018

by Lama Al-Arian

The Trump administration's release of $195 million for the Middle Eastern nation's security spending, frozen last year over rights concerns, has left experts stunned and deeply worried.