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Steve Inskeep talks to Jane Ferguson of PBS NewsHour about her reporting trip to rebel-held territories in Yemen. Few journalists have accessed the areas since the start of the 2015 civil war.

A visit to Syria shows a detention camp where hundreds of women from Europe, Asia and a couple from North America are held. They're wives of ISIS fighters. Two orphans were just sent back to the U.S.

After the defeat of the last ISIS enclave, thousands of women and children — many the families of ISIS fighters — have fled to a refugee camp in northeastern Syria, stretching the camp thin.

Iraq's declared liberation from Islamic State militants in the northern city of Mosul. But with the number of civilian lives lost and the city now in rubble, some Iraqis are unsure about the future.

Children's author Jon Scieszka has written two dozen fantastical books, including The Stinky Cheese Man and the Time Warp Trio series, but his most recent work is an autobiography geared toward children.

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennet's effort to marry. Now, Janice Hadlow has made the least of the sisters in that story, Mary, the star of her own novel of self-discovery.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Jane Hartley about Queen Elizabeth's death and how change in the monarchy could affect global divides and divisions within the U.K.

Aerospace consultant Nick Cook, author of the new book, The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. (Broadway Books/ Random House) In the book, Cook tracks down the secret history of anti-gravity research. It*s technology that defies the laws of physics. Cook discovered that during WWII, the Nazis claimed to have been close to antigravity technology. The U.S. government allegedly conducted antigravity research in the 1950s and 60s. Cook is former Aviation Editor for the military affairs journal, Jane's Defense Weekly.

Fouad Sherif Suleiman and his family were approved for resettlement in the U.S. from their native Iraq, but on Saturday they were turned away at the airport in Cairo.

Protesters were out in cities across Jordan demonstrating against IMF-backed austerity measures that include a new income tax. In the capital Amman, protesters are demanding a new government.