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Ahmed leaves today for Syria, where he'll be reunited with his wife and kids. After that, he'll return to Baghdad to see if it's safe enough to bring his whole family back home.

Abdi Iftin has told us about his life in Mogadishu, Somalia, and now recounts what it’s like being a Somali refugee in Nairobi, Kenya. He says lately the community has been the target of harassment and round-ups that have gotten so bad, he won't go out at night.

An eight-year old on the front lines of the Syrian civil war, caught on film.

Recently, Dawn Josephson was summoned to Washington, D.C. to attend an intimate, backyard event with the President. Dawn was one of the “average, everyday, ordinary citizens” at an event that just happened to be televised on C-SPAN. Also: More from the listener series "When Politics Gets Personal." And: Making money from political candidates…or their likenesses. Bart Schultz is “The Masking Tape Guy.”