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After U.S. airstrikes destroyed a Kunduz hospital, Afghans must travel for days to reach life-saving treatment.

Former child bride Reza Gul is now free from years of torture and hopes to achieve something that once seemed impossible: happiness.

The lives of people in three towns depend on precisely synchronized aid deliveries.

Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...

Therapists and volunteers are working to help children who “perceive everything as threats.”

Bayrampasa district mayor Atilla Aydiner said a bomb had been placed on a nearby highway overpass.

Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...

Russia says its fighter jet stayed in Syrian airspace. Turkey insists that’s a lie.

“We have nothing left here, nothing left to lose.”

Survivors say there are perhaps hundreds of Yazidi women, girls and boys held as sex slaves and child soldiers in Raqqa, Syria.

“It’s still not safe. ISIS could be anywhere.”

Members of the minority group worry that messy politics and crushing poverty will only prolong their plight.

Washington’s increasing coziness with the Syrian Kurds has made Turkey nervous.

The vote comes less than five months after the president appeared to lose support in a June election.

The men worked with an activist organization that provides a rare look into Raqqa, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital.
