(NPR) In a small apartment outside Minneapolis, I’m watching two brown-haired brothers, ages 7 and 9, on a couch playing chess. They’re speaking Arabic sprinkled with English. They stare intently at the board, their little brows furrowed. After a stretch of silence, […]
(CTV) Jack Letts has spent seven-and-a-half years in a legal black hole. Detained without charge in a secret prison in northeast Syria, he is accused of being a member of ISIS, but has never been tried or convicted. His parents, John Letts […]
(NPR) A family of 10 American citizens who were held for years in a Syrian refugee camp and detention center for relatives of Islamic State militants are now back in the United States, the result of complex negotiations that also returned two […]
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