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Fifteen years ago, al-Qaida militants bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The anniversary comes days after the U.S. government shut down diplomatic missions in various nations as part of a heightened security alert. The missions in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam remain open but a fire at Kenya's international airport heightened concerns over renewed attacks.

Scott Simon talks to Jane Harman, director and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center, about the threat of ISIS and the United States' counterterrorism strategy.

The Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday. Festival goers can expect Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut, a docuseries about comedian Bill Cosby and a number of films about reproductive rights.

Jane Campion's and Denis Villeneuve's films got the highest amount of nominations, 12 and 10 each. Drive My Car, from Japan, got nominated for both Best Picture and Best International Feature.

Two months after Iraqi and U.S. forces pushed ISIS out of the Iraqi city of Mosul, there is still widespread destruction, hundreds of thousands of displaced people and questions about who's in charge.

Newly appointed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting the Middle East, sending signals the Trump administration wants to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal unless significant changes are made.

Many foreign ISIS families are in the process of being moved to Baghdad as Iraq works to persuade countries like Russia and Turkey, to take back foreign wives and children of ISIS fighters.

Chaos around expected airport closures was the first sign of the strong reaction and backlash Iraqi Kurds are facing after they voted this week to split-off from Iraq.

The U.S. decision to pull troops from Syria has led to a scramble in neighboring Iraq, where the French foreign minister and Jordan's king visited to see how the region has to adjust.

Protests have gripped areas in southern Iraq for several days. The government has cut off access to the Internet, making it more difficult to get accurate information.