Newsletter Archive

From the Pentagon’s 9/11 memorial chapel, sounds of the Muslim call to prayer softly welcome passersby. Inside, Dawud Agbere, one of five Muslim Army chaplains, welcomes the faithful.

Many in the US Muslim community are on edge after the weekend shooting deaths of an Islamic cleric and his assistant in New York. They have grounds to be worried, according to new study on the upsurge of attacks on Muslims.

Clinton or Trump? There are more Cambodian immigrants in Lowell, Massachusetts than just about anywhere else in the United States. So who will the more than 30,000 Cambodians living in the city vote for in the presidential race? VOA went to Lowell to find out.

Some of these animals will never be seen again. Joel Sartore is on a mission he calls Photo Ark, photographing about 12,000 animals that are vanishing thanks to hunting, habitat loss and climate change. Like Noah in the Bible, the American photographer is collecting animals, but instead of placing them in an ark, he’s saving them the only way he knows how.

After losing its main route for importing foreign fighters and supplies from Turkey, what’s Islamic State going to do? U.S.-backed forces pushed IS from its strategic stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, leaving retreating IS fighters scrambling over where and how to make their next stand.

After discovering two new polio cases — the first in Nigeria in two years — the African nation launched an emergency campaign to vaccinate millions of children. Despite intense challenges — like the presence of Boko Haram militants — that make it hard to immunize children in the most vulnerable areas, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates tells VOA he’s optimistic Nigeria can defeat polio.

VOA is in Vietnam where 80 tons of dead fish washed up on beaches in one of the country’s worst environmental disasters. But a record fine levied against a foreign-owned steel mill for letting toxic waste pollute the waters isn’t enough for some critics.

PHOTO GALLERY: The young and the hopeless. Youth unemployment in Egypt now stands at over 40 percent and educated young workers are faring the worst, with university graduates being more likely to be jobless than the country’s near-illiterate. VOA spoke with young Egyptians about their lives today.