For Baghdad's Uprooted Girls, School Offers A Hard Haven
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BAGHDAD -- The textbooks at their new school might call their predicament "forced internal displacement," but the Iraqi girls living this phenomenon describe it in different terms.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh -- At just 13, Shimu is arguably the most beautiful girl in her neighborhood, with her pitch-black eyes and silver nose ring. But her playful pixie smile belies her adult-size problems: Her grandmother wants her to quit seventh grade and get married, and older boys who loiter in...
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The scene looked more like the set of an American television game show than a conference room in Baghdad&#39;s Green Zone. On a brightly lit stage a pretty young woman plucked numbered ping-pong balls from a plexiglass drum.
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It's not easy to find romance in a conservative Muslim country torn by war. Here's how some young Iraqis are trying
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BAGHDAD, Iraq There&#39;s a sense of relief as well as dread running through the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, a day after a deadly attack there.
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Six Humvees rolled into one of the poor neighborhoods that share Baghdad's northern fringe with groves of date palms, and school teacher Mustafa Hassan climbed out to tears, hugs and kisses.
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For the children of Baghdad, it's a cruel dilemma: Cooped up at home for fear of violence and kidnapping, they can't even go down the street for ice cream, and many are under strict orders to stay away from U.S. soldiers lest they get caught in the crossfire.
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KABUL -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 -- Maybe this awkward party was all they could hope for, given the circumstances.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 -- A teacher for more than three decades and an advocate for women's rights, Safia Ama Jan ran an underground school for girls during Taliban rule. On Monday, two men on a motorbike gunned her down as she left for work -- identifying their target despite her full...
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As the outer layers of her old, familiar life have been peeled back to expose violence, a young Iraqi girl is no longer sure whom to believe, how to interpret events or even what to be afraid of.
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The 40th day since the siege of Middle School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia, brought forth a fresh outpouring of pain. It also laid bare some of the darker emotions, like vengeance.
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At an unusual elementary school outside Atlanta, more than half the 380 students are refugees from some 40 countries, forming an eclectic community.
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"My son told me, 'Mom, I am afraid when   I go to school there will be an explosion,"' sighed Iqbal Safi,   bringing her six-year-old Ali to his first day at Jawad Salim   primary school in central Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni schoolteacher was hijacked as he drove to visit his sister in a predominantly Shi'ite area of Baghdad yesterday. His body was found an hour later, a grim reminder that sectarian violence persists in the capital despite a recent decline.
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It was one of deadliest days for children in 17 months of bloodshed in Iraq. The trauma was palpable yesterday at Baghdad&#39;s Yarmouk Hospital, where the dead and dying were
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They want to be invisible, these young women at Baghdad University explained. They were sitting in a small group -- five students with pale head scarves pulled tightly around their somber faces.