Jane Arraf

The Department of Justice is opening a criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation. Also, a look at Republican response to the impeachment inquiry and protests in Iraq.

Large protests are expected to continue in Iraq Friday, even after the government said last week that many of the 149 people killed in recent protests were killed by security forces shooting to kill.

After five hours of talks on Tuesday, the leaders of Russia and Turkey agreed on how to jointly patrol parts of Syria that until recently were controlled by Kurdish forces.

The cease-fire between Turkey and Syrian Kurds appears to be holding, despite a looming deadline. Turkey's president said the process will not end before all of the Kurds have withdrawn as agreed.

Syrians angered at the U.S. betrayal of former Kurdish allies pelted military vehicles with stones and potatoes as U.S. forces left Syria for Iraq. Displaced civilians are also streaming across.

Kurdish-Syrian fighters say they have withdrawn from a key border city as part of a U.S. brokered deal with Turkish forces. But both Turkey and the Kurds accuse the other of breaking the ceasefire.

More than 2,000 refugees have crossed into Iraq since Turkey began its assault on northeastern Syria last week. Aid groups are bracing for as many as 50,000 refugee arrivals.

Turkey insists the ceasefire is holding in northeastern Syria after brokering a deal with U.S. involvement. But shelling could still be heard at the border hours after the deal was announced.

Hundreds of people fleeing the newly unstable situation in Syria crossed the border and are now in a detention camp in Iraq. They left so quickly that, says one, all they packed were their ambitions.

Turkey's invasion of northern Syria has sparked a humanitarian crisis with tens of thousands of people displaced and searching for safety. Scores of others have been killed and wounded.

As a military offensive by Turkey into Syria continues, aid agencies are increasingly concerned. Tens of thousands of civilians in the region have been displaced by the violence.

In remote northern Iraq, Yazidis gathered to mark an ISIS massacre five years ago. Some were relatives of Nobel Laureate Nadia Murad.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will discuss measures aimed at addressing gun violence in September. Also, changes in national intelligence leadership.

"It's crazy to know that he died alone in a country he'd never been in," Jimmy Aldaoud's sister told NPR. He had arrived in the U.S. with his Iraqi family when he was a very young child.

A man deported from the U.S. to Iraq even though he had mental health problems, hadn't lived in Iraq and didn't speak Arabic, has died. It highlights several cases of similar deportations to Iraq.

Five years ago then-President Barack Obama announced air strikes in Iraq to protect U.S. interests and the Yazidi minority. It was a key moment in the fight against ISIS but the Yazidis still suffer.

Iraqis are jubilant over the designation of the ancient city of Babylon as a world heritage site. Damage from railways, poor restorations and U.S. troops are now considered part of the local history.

The strike hit a detention center in the Libyan capital Tripoli, killing more than 40 people. The U.N.-backed government in Libya blames a militia leader who is fighting for control of Tripoli.

A Yazidi woman escaped ISIS in Sryia and keeps in her purse the names of the fighters who enslaved and assaulted her.

A U.S. attack on Iran could send shock waves of reprisals around the Middle East.