Newsletter Archive

Islamic State militants are becoming increasingly desperate and brutal as the Iraqi army advances in Mosul, according to people who’ve escaped the terror group’s clutches. VOA meets refugees in the Hassan Sham Camp who say IS militants are threatening to kill families that refuse to retreat with them to serve as human shields.

The Syrian Civil War has uprooted more than 5 million Syrians who have fled to neighboring states and Europe. With the momentum shifting, possibly irreversibly, in favor of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the future of these displaced people is up in the air. If they can’t go home again, what will happen to millions of Syrian refugees?

The Dakota Access Pipeline would never have been proposed if it weren’t for the North Dakota oil boom over the past decade or so. Protests recently prompted the federal government to put the pipeline on hold. North Dakota, one of the least-populated and least-visited states, and the second-largest oil-producer in the United States, is looking for a faster way to transport oil.

VIDEO: ‘A date which will live in infamy’ The attack on Pearl Harbor happened 75 years ago today but, for survivors and witnesses, the memories are still vivid. Some who were there during the assault share their experiences from America’s first 9/11.

A decade-long trade dispute between Donald Trump and China has attracted widespread media attention in the Asian nation since the businessman reality television star won the U.S. presidential election. In 2006, Trump filed a Chinese trademark application for the word ‘Trump’ but was rejected because someone else had already patented the name. Trump appealed, referring to China’s entire judicial system as ‘faithless, corrupt and tainted.’

VIDEO: After a decade at the helm of the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will leave the world body. VOA sits down with the world’s top diplomat as he reflects on his accomplishments during his tenure, whether he’ll run for president in his home country of South Korea, and on what shocked him about certain world leaders.