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Civilians In Mosul Remain Trapped

5:47am March 30, 2017

Retired Major Gen. Charles Dunlap of Duke University and Sarah Margon of Human Rights Watch discuss U.S. military operations and urban warfare in Mosul, where some 400,000 civilians remain trapped.

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Amnesty International Criticizes U.S.-Led Coalition For Mosul Civilian Deaths

11:38pm March 28, 2017

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Donatella Rovera, senior crisis response adviser for Amnesty International, about evidence of American airstrikes destroying houses with entire families inside in east Mosul, Iraq.

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Girls walk down Lumpkin Street in Hamtramck, Mich.

Hamtramck, Michigan: An Evolving City Of Immigrants

4:33pm March 28, 2017

Hamtramck, Mich., used to be mostly Polish. Now, the population has changed, with a growing population of Muslims, coming mostly from Yemen and Bangladesh.

Hossein Mahrammi with his wife and four young sons arrived at at Dulles International Airport in Virginia earlier this month with Special Immigrant Visas for the work Mahrammi had helped the U.S. with in Afghanistan.

Special Immigrant Visa Holders Still Face Questioning Upon Reaching U.S.

1:28pm March 27, 2017

by Joel Rose

Visa holders who worked with the U.S. overseas say they've been detained and threatened with deportation upon arrival in the country, but federal officials say there is broad discretion to deny entry.

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Trapped Civilians Complicate U.S. Efforts in Northern Syria And Iraq

5:06am March 27, 2017

by Tom Bowman

NPR's Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman explains U.S. and coalition efforts to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa and the ongoing fight for the Iraqi city of Mosul. Recent airstrikes in Mosul may have led to the deaths of more than one hundred civilians, including women and children.

The Palestinian-Israeli movie Bar Bahar has won acclaim for its intimate portrayal of three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv.

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New Film Spotlights Palestinian Women Navigating Life 'In Between' Cultures

8:20pm March 26, 2017

by Joanna Kakissis

Maysaloun Hamoud's In Between highlights the challenges young Palestinian women face in Israel as they try to live amid contradictory expectations. Hamoud has received death threats since its release.

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U.S. Acknowledges Mosul Airstrikes That Residents Say Killed More Than 100 Civilians

6:27pm March 26, 2017

by Michel Martin

Loveday Morris, Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief, says if confirmed, the deadly airstrike marks the most civilian causalities since the U.S. began fighting ISIS in 2014.

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Imam Johari Abdul-Malik (center), of Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Northern Virginia, speaks alongside other leaders of the Muslim community during a December 2015 news conference in Washington, D.C., about growing "Islamophobia" in the United States.

Push To Name Muslim Brotherhood A Terrorist Group Worries U.S. Offshoots

8:35pm March 24, 2017

by Tom Gjelten

Some Islamic institutions in the U.S. were founded by brotherhood members or sympathizers. Community leaders say ties with the Islamist movement were cut long ago; conservatives suspect otherwise.

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Former Egyptian President Mubarak Freed From Detention

4:32pm March 24, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak is a free man for the first time in six years. He was freed from house arrest at a military hospital after being cleared of claims he ordered Arab Spring protesters shot.

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Former Egyptian Leader Mubarak Released

1:07pm March 24, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was freed Friday morning after six years in detention. His lawyers say he has left a military hospital where he has essentially been under house arrest.

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