Can you ever really break away from ISIS?
Before things really went wrong, an uncle managed to get him back. How are he and all those boys who joined ISIS back then doing now?
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‘Mom likes me, but not very much’
When Jean-Cloude (10) accidentally breaks their mother's phone, he and his brother decide to run away from home—back to the orphanage where they lived until recently.
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In the treatment room people are free to express themselves
The Baghdad psychiatrist, who has been my friend since 2011, eventually fled with his family to Malaysia, where he took up a position at a university, dreaming of continuing his work in Britain.
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How stories can touch people's hearts
Nathan Thrall received the Pulitzer Prize for his literary nonfiction book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. In it, he tells the story of a Palestinian father who loses his five-year-old son in a bus accident in occupied territory. An interview about the power of storytelling.
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And you call this a free Iraq?
The first Western tourists are arriving in Iraq. They are not only visiting the sites from the Old Testament, but also the scene of the war with the West that began in 2003.
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You can't just brush an accident away
A disaster can never be predicted. But you can learn to deal with it. Good communication is paramount.
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And then a truck explodes
Kirkuk, February 3, 8:50. On Sunday morning, February 3, at ten to nine, police sergeant Sarhad Qadr hangs his jacket over his office chair.
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Fear in the workplace
Lying awake at night because of that presentation, going to your performance review with sweaty palms, secretly hoping that someone else will pick up the phone – some work situations evoke fear. What is behind it?
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Briefly released from Albania's only women's prison
Early release for good behavior is not an option for the inmates of Albania's only women's prison. Three weeks of vacation a year is. On a road trip with Dori, who has been in prison for drug trafficking for more than six years.
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Sorry I infected you
We pass Covid-19 on to each other, sometimes with disastrous consequences – and a sense of guilt. “I thought: what if it goes wrong? That she dies because I came home?”
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