Middle East

News Brief: GOP Health Bill Vote Postponed, Iran Sentences U.S. Citizen

7:53am July 17, 2017

A vote on the Senate's health care bill has been delayed. An American graduate student who disappeared in Iran months ago has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to an Iranian news agency.

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Iran Detains President's Brother, Sentences U.S. Student On Espionage Charges

9:36pm July 16, 2017

by Emma Bowman

A Chinese-American history researcher has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Recently re-elected President Rouhani's supporters see his brother's arrest as a move to undermine the president.

'City Of Ghosts' Shows Everyday Horrors Of Living With ISIS

5:12pm July 16, 2017

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Matthew Heineman about his new film City of Ghosts, which follows a group of citizen journalists from Raqqa on life in ISIS-occupied Syria.

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Protests In Turkey Mark One-Year Anniversary Of Failed Coup

5:09pm July 15, 2017

by Peter Kenyon

One year ago Turkey's failed coup led President Erdogan's government to arrest tens of thousands of people and impose a state of emergency. On the anniversary, events are taking place in protest.

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Malala Yousafzai Turns 20, Travels To Iraq

8:52am July 15, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai met with girls victimized by ISIS and encouraged them to overcome violence the way she did. Her trip to Iraq happened as she turned 20.

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Turkish Ambassador Highlights How July 15 Coup Stands Out In 'Unfortunate History'

4:37pm July 14, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Serdar Kilic, Turkish ambassador to the U.S., about the response to NPR's interview with Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen and the first-year anniversary of the July 15 coup attempt.

Israeli security forces carry the body of a man who police say carried out an attack at the site of Temple Mount and al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

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Gunmen Kill 2 Israeli Officers At Religious Site In Jerusalem

9:32am July 14, 2017

by Jim Kane

Three Israeli Arab attackers killed two border police officers before being shot and killed in a gun battle at Temple Mount.

Ticks of the genus Hyalomma, pictured here, are principally responsible for passing on Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever to humans.

How Did Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Pop Up In Spain?

7:49pm July 13, 2017

by Maanvi Singh

The Ebola-like virus is found mainly in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

President Trump has joined French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to celebrate Bastille Day.

In Paris, Trump Defends Son's Meeting With Russian Lawyer

5:49pm July 13, 2017

by Brian Naylor

The president said that the June 2016 meeting was very standard and that politics "is not the nicest business."

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Victim Of Turkish Government Crackdown Reflects On Year Since Coup Attempt

5:27pm July 13, 2017

by Peter Kenyon

Turkey is marking the one-year anniversary this week of an attempted coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. NPR has the story of one victim of the Turkish government's sweeping crackdown after last year's attempted coup.

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