As NPR's Alice Fordham noted Thursday, Ireland in recent years "has legalized easier access to contraception, divorce, homosexuality and same-sex marriage" becoming the first country in the world, in fact, to legalize gay marriage by popular vote.
"This attack was on a large scale, but many similar, small bombings happen every day in the Iraqi capital, a constant bloody reminder that although ISIS no longer holds a third of Iraq's territory, the extremists and their allies are still powerful and ruthless," NPR's Alice Fordham reports from Irb
Date: Feb 16, 2017
Category: World
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Syrian Rebel Factions Say They're Freezing Participation In Peace Talks
"A cease-fire has technically been in place across Syria since Friday, and violence is lower than usual," NPR's Alice Fordham reports from Beirut. "But the opposition says the regime has pressed offensives in the suburbs of Damascus and a river valley northwest of the capital in violation of the agr
Date: Jan 03, 2017
Category: World
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Emptied East Aleppo Now Regime-Controlled, But Syria's Civil War Rages On
"In Syria's multifactional civil war, ISIS is still stubbornly holding territory, including the town of al-Bab in the north of the country," NPR's Alice Fordham reports. "It's near Turkey's border and Turkey is supporting Syrian factions with air strikes. Turkey has been conducting operations agains
Date: Dec 23, 2016
Category: World
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PHOTOS: Mass Exodus From Aleppo's Rebel Stronghold As Regime Forces Close In
This is a crucial battle in Syria's war, which is now in its sixth year. As NPR's Alice Fordham reports, "if [government forces] continue to press forward into that rebel-held area of the city of Aleppo, this will be the really last urban stronghold held by the rebels. And if they lose this, it will
Date: Nov 30, 2016
Category: World
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Displaced Iraqis In Mosul Look Forward To Reuniting With Relatives
of Mosul from ISIS. The extremists have held that city for more than two years now. Tens of thousands have been fleeing the fighting there. And some of those escaping now have been able to reunite with relatives who got out long ago. So NPR's Alice Fordham has seen moments of joy amid all the trauma.
Date: Nov 15, 2016
Category: World
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UN: ISIS Is Using Tens Of Thousands Of Civilians As Human Shields In Mosul
Reporting from northern Iraq, NPR's Alice Fordham heard from a man inside Mosul that "there are rumors there of ISIS taking people and positioning them around the city. Several people have disappeared from his neighborhood, and he fears they will be used as human shields or forced to be fighters."
Date: Oct 28, 2016
Category: World
Source: Google
The Next US President Can Expect Weakened, But Still Lethal ISIS
example, fear that as Sunni Muslims and onetime victims of ISIS, they could be grouped together with the Sunni terror group and distrusted or persecuted as potential sympathizers. One man told NPR's Alice Fordham that ISIS has so poisoned the outlook for Sunnis in Iraq that it "killed the future."