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Many corrections officers oppose efforts to change the practice of isolating inmates. They say solitary confinement has been a trusted tool in American prisons for half a century.

A Sunni Muslim tribe in central Iraq braves nightly shelling and threats from the Islamic State, refusing the group's orders to join its movement. But they say they need help.

After his cables were leaked and President Trump attacked him on Twitter, Kim Darroch decided to resign as the British Ambassador to the U.S., reminding some former diplomats of WikiLeak troubles.

- Jackie speaks with Jordanian Information Minister Marwan Mu'asher about the current tensions between Jordan and Israel. Jordan, which has a peace treaty with Israel, was the only Arab country to welcome the election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last May. But Mu'asher says Netanyahu's performance since then has caused deep concerns in Jordan about the future of the Middle East peace process.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that a French appeals court ruled today that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi can be prosecuted in France for complicity in the 1989 destruction of a French airliner over Niger. One-hundred-seventy people died in the terrorist attack. The ruling could expand the reach of international criminal law. The French state prosecutor had argued against this ruling, stating that Gaddafi enjoys what is known as "sovereign immunity," which protects a head of state from prosecution for acts performed while in office. But the French court -- citing as precedent the case of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in Britain -- ruled that the notion of sovereign immunity does not extend to charges of ordering the bombing of an airliner.

The classes are taught by Jess Ng, a Muay Thai fighter who grew up in Queens. Ng decided to start the classes when Asian women at a recent community event indicated they feel endangered when outside.

Afghans are protesting the Taliban's ban on girls attending secondary school, including a surprising cohort: pro-Taliban clerics.

The past week has brought big changes to CIA headquarters. Former CIA officials tell NPR that there's a growing sense of optimism for the future. In particular, they generally like the choice of Gen. Michael Hayden to lead the spy organization.

Police take the man who shot Pope John Paul II back into custody after an appeals court ordered him to return to prison to serve more time for killing a journalist and for other crimes in Turkey.

With an increase in attacks on Asian Americans in New York City, some martial arts practitioners are offering self-defense classes to women.

Over the past five years, Indonesia has weathered terrorism, political upheaval and economic crisis. At the same time, the world’s largest Muslim nation has gone through a kind of artistic Renaissance. NPR's Rick Karr reports on the dynamic art scene in the island nation. View a photo gallery of Indonesian art.

For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.

A clash between Muslim students trying to build a mosque and residents who oppose it in South Korea's fourth largest city tests the nation's tolerance of increasing diversity.

The tensions are a test of the nation's tolerance of increasing diversity, when South Korea is looking to immigration to bolster its aging and shrinking workforce.

The heavy thud of punches and kicks smacking punching bags could be heard through the walls of a gym for Muay Thai, a martial arts fighting style from…

Hisham Matar fled Libya in the 1970s as a 9-year-old boy. This week, he releases his debut novel, In the Country of Men, a story told through the eyes of a Libyan boy. Like Matar, the boy's father is a political dissident hunted down by the Libyan government.

is expected to survive a confidence vote in the country's parliament today. On a recent visit to Libya, the country's leader Muammer Gaddafi sharply criticized Erbakan for Turkey's ties to the west and its treatment of its Kurdish minority.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Camp Zeist in The Netherlands, where a special Scottish court today sentenced Libyan Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to life in prison -- with the possibility of parole -- for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The judges acquitted the second Libyan defendant, Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima . Relatives of some of the 270 people who died in the attack expressed satisfaction with the verdict against Megrahi. They said they still hold Libyan leader Muammar Gaddhafi responsible. President Bush applauded the work of U.S. investigators and the Scottish court, and said Libya must take responsibility for the crime and pay compensation to the families.

NPR's Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark reports on the aftermath of the Lockerbie trial, and the life sentence handed down to a Libyan intelligence agent convicted of planting the bomb on board PanAm flight 103. Libya's leader Muammar Qadafi says he will unveil new evidence on Monday that proves the agent is innocent.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on reactions to the verdict in the Lockerbie bombing trial earlier this week. In Libya, the acquitted defendant was personally welcomed home by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Libya's plans to hold national elections are in doubt as the country breaks down into regions controlled by local faction leaders — including the son of the former dictator.

The return of Stephen Kappes to the CIA, where he will soon become the agency's No. 2 official, is likely to help smooth some of the turbulence the spy agency has experienced since the upheaval that followed the departure of George Tenet.

Ethan Chorin, who served in Libya, presents details that most Americans don't know about the embassy attack — and explores the role domestic politics played in the aftermath.

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 people, including 190 Americans, and launched a decades-long international manhunt for the attackers.

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimihe, the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, was handed over to U.S. authorities.