"I'm quite a coward," Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. "I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones when it comes to my music career." It's a surprisingly candid confession from ...

The Iraqi doctor sat on a corner of the stage, listening and smiling as Seattle grade-schoolers sang for the orphans of Baghdad. We are children of peace. We are the children of the world. But when ...

Adnane Abdelrahmane, 56, beats a hand drum at his home in Iraq's southern city of Zubair — Hussein Faleh Adnan Abdelrahman shows off the drums he learned to play at age 12. He belongs to Iraq's ...