Trump Backers Want Ideology Test For Extreme Vetting
The Trump administration says it is suspending all refugee admissions to the United States until it can come up with a plan for "extreme vetting." So what could that mean? Refugees are already...
View ArticleFor Refugees And Advocates, Trump Immigration Order Stay Leads To Disarray
Groups that resettle refugees in the United States are facing uncertainty, disarray and possible deep budget cuts as a result of President Trump's executive order on immigration, even after a...
View ArticleWhat To Know About Saudi Arabia's New Crown Prince And The Issues He Will Face
Saudi Arabia, a close ally of the United States, is not known for surprises. But in a sudden shift in power, the 31-year-old son of the 81-year-old Saudi king moved one step closer to the throne on...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia's Crown Prince Appears To Be Shifting How Power Works In The...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In Saudi Arabia, a five-star hotel was turned into a kind of five-star jail this weekend. Saudi's crown prince was behind a series of...
View ArticleThe Year The U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Unraveled
Last year began with an angry phone call about refugees, famously leaked later. The newly inaugurated Donald Trump exploded when Australia's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, asked him to honor a U.S....
View ArticleNearly 7,000 Syrians Are Waiting To See If Their Protected Status Will Be...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Trump administration has been scaling back a program that lets people live in the U.S. during crises in their home countries. It is...
View ArticleWhy Saudi Arabia Is Suddenly Shaking Up Its Military
Saudi Arabia replaced a generation of its military leadership, for the first time opened some military jobs to women and promoted a woman to a top post at the Labor Ministry, in a series of rare steps...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: The White House Loves It. Most Americans? Not So Much
With Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman embarking on a nearly three-week road show across the United States, he will have one major hurdle: Americans don't like his country very much. Despite a...
View Article100 Iranians Remain Stranded In Austria Awaiting Asylum In The U.S.
As Christians all over the world celebrate Easter weekend, dozens of fellow faithful are growing weary — waiting for the virtual gates of America's refugee services to reopen. More than 100 Iranian...
View ArticleRussian Chemist Who Developed Nerve Agents Has No Doubt Moscow Is Behind U.K....
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We've been hearing a lot about a group of nerve agents known as Novichok, one of which was used in the attempted assassination of a former...
View ArticleSyrian Defector: Assad Forces Targeted, Killed Journalist Marie Colvin
New evidence presented in a Washington, D.C., federal court claims that American journalist Marie Colvin was killed in a targeted assassination by the Syrian regime in 2012. Colvin, who was 56 when she...
View ArticleThe U.S. Goals In Syria
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As more details emerge today about the U.S.-led strikes on Syria overnight, U.S. officials are calling it a limited operation aimed just at...
View ArticleThe Legacy Of An Israeli-Palestinian 'Sesame Street'
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: About 20 years ago, the Muppets inserted themselves in the Mideast conflict. A "Sesame Street" program was adapted for Israeli and...
View ArticleU.S. Can't Issue Blanket Denial To Asylum-Seeking Iranians, Judge Rules
A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to reconsider the asylum requests of nearly 90 Iranian refugees — overruling the blanket denial the government had issued to all of...
View ArticleHow This Saudi Woman Is Fighting Her Country's Male Guardianship Laws
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: Saudi Arabia started allowing women to drive last month. It also detained women who advocated for the right to drive. These mixed signals are...
View ArticleFrom California, A Saudi Woman Fights Her Country's Strict Male Guardianship...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H-uX0T_Pn4 When Saudi Arabia started allowing women to drive last month — a historic shift in the last country in the world to ban women from getting behind the wheel —...
View ArticleU.S. Refugee Program 'In Danger' Amid Steep Drop In Refugee Arrivals,...
A snapshot of the Trump administration's unraveling of the U.S. refugee resettlement program can be found in these numbers: The U.S. has admitted 49 Syrian refugees so far in fiscal year 2018. More...
View ArticleWith Syria's War Nearly Over, Victims Take The Battle To European Courts
The Syrian war is winding down after seven brutal years, with hundreds of thousands killed, millions displaced and neighborhoods in smoking ruins. President Bashar Assad is on course to win, with help...
View Article15 Women Entrepreneurs From Saudi Arabia Visit U.S. To Develop Their Pitches
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's not unusual to hear a story about young entrepreneurs developing apps for smartphones. This next story is unusual because the...
View ArticleUnder Threat At Home, Refugee Scholars Find Academic Havens At U.S. Universities
Around the globe, more scholars are now threatened and displaced than since World War II began. In response, U.S. universities have sponsored endangered scholars and recently created a consortium that...
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