Politics Some U.S. Troops May Remain In Northeast Syria To Protect Oil Fields Other U.S. troops will pivot to fighting ISIS in Iraq, rather than immediately heading home. Some 300,000 people have reportedly been displaced since Turkey's offensive began. Laurel Wamsley
National 'I've Got Nothing Over Here': Michigan Man Deported By ICE Dies In Baghdad "It's crazy to know that he died alone in a country he'd never been in," Jimmy Aldaoud's sister told NPR. He had arrived in the U.S. with his Iraqi family when he was a very young child. Merrit Kennedy Jane Arraf
National Security Medal Of Honor Awarded To Iraq War Veteran Retired Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia received the nation's highest medal for heroism for saving his squad in Fallujah, Iraq. Bellavia is the first living veteran of that war to be so honored. David Welna
World 'I Want To Go Back': The Yazidi Girls Who Did Not Want To Be Rescued From ISIS The girls, ages 10 and 11, were held captive for years and remember nothing of their Yazidi heritage. They miss the ISIS woman who looked after them and tell rescuers they want to return to her. Jane Arraf
World France Won't Take ISIS Fighters Back, But Doesn't Want Them Executed Either France doesn't want to bring back French ISIS members captured in Iraq, but French authorities are dismayed that an Iraqi court has sentenced four of them to death. Jane Arraf
World Freed By ISIS, Yazidi Mothers Face Wrenching Choice: Abandon Kids Or Never Go Home Women kidnapped by ISIS five years ago are now being freed. But the Yazidi community does not allow children born in captivity of militant fathers to return with them. Jane Arraf
World 'We Pray For The Caliphate To Return': ISIS Families Crowd Into Syrian Camps "The women and children who have been raised on the mentality of ISIS and terrorism need to be rehabilitated," warns an official. "Otherwise, they will be the foundations of future terrorism." Jane Arraf
National After Combat, A Veteran Finds Solace In Sheep Farming Army veteran Sgt. Mickey Willenbring was injured while serving in Iraq and also developed PTSD. Running a Navajo-Churro sheep farm has helped her cope with the lingering trauma of combat. Kelly Moffitt Emma Bowman
Sleepless nights waiting for mom to return from Iraq Nervous families gathered at Sea-Tac airport on Monday morning, three days after the president's executive order banning travelers from seven majority... Kate OConnell
They Found Love During The Iraq War. They Found Home In Seattle This is a story about love and war; love lost and love found again. In 2004, Nayyef Hrebid was an interpreter for the U.S. Marines in Iraq, and Btoo... Posey Gruener Bill Radke
