NEW YORK — After Friday’s targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, newsrooms struggled with the question: Had the United States just carried out an assassination? And should news stories ...
The UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing on Friday said the President Trump-approved drone strike against Qassim Soleimani, Iran’s top general, violated international human rights law. In a lengthy Twitter ...
TRIPOLI, Libya — When the European Union started funneling millions of euros into Libya to slow the tide of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, the money came with EU promises to ...
Heightened regime and Russian bombardment has hit the country’s last major opposition bastion since mid-December, as regime forces make advances on the ground despite an August ceasefire and United Nations ...
The strikes targeted the village of Jubass near the town of Saraqeb in southern Idlib province, killing civilians sheltering in a school and nearby, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ...
Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: Saudi Arabia sentences five men to death for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi—but exonerates two senior officials, Algeria’s military chief dies amid an ongoing ...
The Idlib region, which is home to some three million people including many displaced by Syria‘s civil war, is controlled by the country’s former al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The ...
Humanitarian aid currently flows into Syria across UN-designated checkpoints without the formal permission of the regime in Damascus, but that authority is due to expire on January 10. Germany, Belgium ...
The Netherlands has to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by next year under a ruling issued Friday by the country’s Supreme Court, which said global warming poses “great dangers to ...
NEW YORK — Worldwide, the number of men using traditional tobacco products has finally started to decline, health officials said Thursday. Four out of five tobacco users globally are men, ...
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