Douglas Schorzman

Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani campaigner for girls’ education who was gravely wounded by the Taliban in October, is back in school for the first time since the attack.

The United States formally gave Kyrgyzstan control of Manas Air Base, in another American step out of the Afghanistan war.

Few families have been able to leave the city, where Islamic State fighters are under siege by government forces.

Iraq’s second-largest city was once home to more than two million residents before the Islamic State claimed it as a stronghold of its self-proclaimed caliphate.

Journalists have been abducted, news outlets blocked and the main party pressured, as the army declares its critics “anti-state.”

Many of the acting cabinet ministers appointed Tuesday have played similar roles within the Taliban for years, but there were some surprises.