Residents described gunfire outside their homes and bodies in the streets in the worst unrest in Syria since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, with more than 1,000 people killed since Thursday, a military monitor said. The shooting began at dawn…
The illegal amphetamine, used across the Middle East, became Syria’s biggest export during its 13-year civil war. Video Rebel fighters in Syria said on Friday that they had found vast stockpiles of an illegal amphetamine called captagon in a Damascus…
In an impoverished, war-ravaged country, the first prayers after the fall of a brutal regime drew jubilant crowds, even in areas seen as regime strongholds. Jubilant crowds gathered in cities across Syria for the first Friday Prayers since rebels toppled…
Israel Dispatch Abandoned and off limits to civilians, Metula, a symbol of early pioneering Zionism, is left half-ruined by Hezbollah’s rockets and missiles. By Isabel Kershner Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev Once a picturesque Israeli mountain resort with panoramic views into…
Critic’s Notebook In fights to sway public sentiment, critics often point to costly clothes as evidence of moral corruption. On Oct. 19, three days after Israeli soldiers killed the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the Israeli military released a video that…
The Israeli military struck targets in the port city of Tyre on Wednesday, the latest phase of a bombardment campaign against the militant group Hezbollah. Israel attacked the ancient port city of Tyre in Lebanon on Wednesday after issuing its…
The news organization strongly denied the accusations, which it said were based on “fabricated evidence” and followed a long history of Israeli hostility toward the network. The Israeli military on Wednesday accused six Al Jazeera reporters based in Gaza of…
Four people were killed and 14 injured. Surveillance footage showed two attackers, a man and a woman, with backpacks and rifles and a body lying on the pavement outside. Gunmen armed with explosives and rifles assaulted the headquarters of Turkey’s…
After a year of war, at least one million people are facing months in the cold. Some said tents, blankets and warm clothes now qualified as luxuries. A year into the war in Gaza, the prices of ready-made tents and…
The two countries have been fighting a shadow war for years. But direct attacks are bringing direct reprisals, or at least plans for them. For decades, Iran and Israel have fought a shadow war. This year, their conflict has burst…
Hashem Safieddine, a cousin of Hassan Nasrallah, joined Hezbollah soon after the group was formed and rose quickly in its ranks. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it had weeks ago killed Hashem Safieddine, the presumed successor to Hezbollah’s…
A leading historian of antisemitism, he countered the prevailing narrative of Jewish victimhood and later pushed back against efforts to diminish the Holocaust’s significance. Yehuda Bauer, whose family narrowly escaped the Nazis in their flight to Mandatory Palestine from Czechoslovakia…