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Dec 23, 2025
The Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government plan to exchange about 2,900 detainees, a rare humanitarian win at a time of deepening political stalemate.
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Dec 22, 2025
A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.
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Dec 22, 2025
A Times investigation into the whereabouts of top Syrian officials who fled after the regime's fall shows many remain free — shielded by wealth and accommodating host nations.
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Dec 22, 2025
Bashar al-Assad's long, brutal reign ended swiftly, but he and his close circle have had a soft landing in Russia.
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Dec 22, 2025
Palestinian Christians are reviving their seasonal public celebrations, hoping to bring light and holiday spirit at the end of a gloomy year in the West Bank.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Syrian government did not comment directly on the extensive American strikes targeting the Islamic State on Friday, but said it was intensifying its own efforts to fight the group.
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Dec 20, 2025
The writer and lawyer has been documenting the occupation for decades. Somehow, he maintains hope.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Lebanese militant group has resisted calls to lay down all its arms, risking a return to war with Israel.
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Dec 19, 2025
American forces struck dozens of suspected ISIS sites, making good on President Trump's vow to avenge two American soldiers killed by the group last week.
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Dec 19, 2025
Food security experts said a famine reported in August had been alleviated but that the situation remained dire across the enclave, despite a cease-fire in October and greater flows of aid.
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Dec 19, 2025
A panel of food security experts said the situation remained dire in the enclave despite a cease-fire in October and greater flows of aid.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.
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Dec 18, 2025
Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.
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Dec 18, 2025
Despite sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands.
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Dec 17, 2025
Israel's granting of an export permit is the final step to allow the deal, first announced by energy companies in August, to proceed.
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Dec 17, 2025
ISIS is too weakened to seize territory, experts said, but its ability to churn out propaganda aimed at provoking violence against the West persists.
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Dec 17, 2025
ISIS is too weakened to seize territory, experts said, but its ability to churn out propaganda aimed at provoking violence against the West persists.
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Dec 16, 2025
The move is an escalation of military operations and a pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's leader. But its scope and economic impact are not clear.
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Dec 16, 2025
The president announced the move using bellicose language, in an escalation of his pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's leader. But its scope and economic effects were not clear.
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Dec 16, 2025
With Israelis rapidly building in the West Bank, Palestinian hikers are increasingly unable to walk across the land.
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Dec 16, 2025
In public, the White House says it is confronting Venezuela to curb drug trafficking. Behind the scenes, gaining access to the country's vast oil reserves is a priority.
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Dec 15, 2025
Narges Mohammadi and several other Iranian activists were detained last Friday. She has been beaten, requiring emergency medical treatment, and accused of working with Israel, her family said.
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Dec 14, 2025
The gunman who killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter had been set to be dismissed from the security forces over his extremist views, U.S. and Syrian officials said.
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Dec 14, 2025
The attack further complicates President Ahmed al-Sharaa's efforts to unify the country and rebuild relationships with the international community, analysts say.
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Dec 14, 2025
The killing of the commander, Raed Saad, on Saturday was the highest-profile assassination of a Hamas leader since a cease-fire came into force two months ago.
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Dec 14, 2025
The attacks further complicate President Ahmed al-Sharaa's efforts to unify the country and rebuild relationships with the international community, analysts say.
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Dec 14, 2025
The rainstorm that battered the enclave this week has left many shivering in tent camps. Despite a cease-fire, rebuilding is still a long way off.
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Dec 13, 2025
Two soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed while supporting counterterror operations, the Pentagon said. They are the first U.S. casualties in Syria since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad
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Dec 13, 2025
The Pentagon said two soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed while supporting counterterror operations. They are the first U.S. casualties in Syria since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad
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Dec 13, 2025
Hamas said the attack on Saturday was a breach of the truce. The militant group did not comment on Israel's claim to have killed one of its members.
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Dec 13, 2025
The next steps for the president's 20-point Gaza peace plan have been mired in uncertainty and a lack of detail, but that may be set to change. Here's what to know.
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Dec 13, 2025
A concert hall canceled the performance several months ago but then reached a compromise in which three concerts will be held. The bargain hasn't satisfied critics of the events.
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Dec 12, 2025
The human rights activist was released on furlough from prison last year, but was detained again on Friday, along with several other human rights activists.
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Dec 12, 2025
The U.S. seizure of a vessel off Venezuela is likely to squeeze the country's government, but do little to counter the tankers that secretively move oil from sanctioned countries.
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Dec 12, 2025
The national soccer team made it to the knockout stages of the Arab Cup for the first time, uniting fans from Gaza to the West Bank to Cairo to Arab cities in Israel.
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Dec 11, 2025
The United States is escalating its pressure campaign on Venezuela's leader, Nicolás Maduro, after seizing an oil tanker off the coast.
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Dec 11, 2025
The rights group said it had documented atrocities committed by Palestinian armed groups, including murder, imprisonment, torture and sexual violence.
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Dec 11, 2025
The tanker was headed eastward and had recently carried Iranian oil. The seizure is an escalation in President Trump's military pressure campaign against Venezuela's leader, Nicolás Maduro.
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Dec 11, 2025
Escalating activity along a fault line in the Sea of Marmara is moving closer to Istanbul, seismologists warn.
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Dec 11, 2025
Critics say Syria's fledgling government is hobbling military preparedness as it redoes the country's forces from scratch.
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Dec 10, 2025
The Southern Transitional Council has seized control of parts of Yemen over the past week, with ambitions to create a "south Arabian state."
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Dec 10, 2025
The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members.
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Dec 09, 2025
The two countries, which criminalize homosexuality and impose severe punishments for it, were picked to play on a day celebrating L.G.B.T.Q. communities.
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Dec 09, 2025
Israel's top court gave the government further reprieve on a long-stalled petition seeking free access to Gaza. Critics say barring journalists denies the world a full picture of conditions there.
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Dec 08, 2025
Municipal officials say the action was about unpaid taxes. The U.N. relief agency for Palestinians says it is exempt from taxes and should be immune from such a raid, calling it illegal.
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Dec 08, 2025
A cease-fire after two years of war with Israel has allowed Hamas to tighten its grip on power again. "It's still standing," one Israeli official said.
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Dec 08, 2025
A year ago, rebels overthrew President Bashar al-Assad, ending decades of dictatorship and civil war. But challenges remain for the new leadership.
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Dec 07, 2025
The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago.
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Dec 06, 2025
Officials said Israel helped arm and back Yasser Abu Shabab's Popular Forces, part of a strategy against Hamas, before a local clan killed him this week.
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Dec 06, 2025
Officials said Israel helped arm and back Yasser Abu Shabab's Popular Forces, part of a strategy against Hamas, before a local clan killed him this week.
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Dec 06, 2025
The conservative Islamic kingdom's approach to social policy change is often silence and ambiguity. Legalizing alcohol has been no different.
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Dec 05, 2025
President Trump's new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.
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Dec 05, 2025
An armed group backed by the United Arab Emirates has pushed into the oil-rich province of Hadramout, a move that could reignite conflict in Yemen after years of a stalemate.
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Dec 04, 2025
The Netherlands and Slovenia also said they would not take part in next year's contest, meant to be its celebratory 70th edition.
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Dec 04, 2025
Yasser Abu Shabab, a Bedouin man in his 30s, was at the center of an Israeli project in Gaza to build up anti-Hamas militias.
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Dec 04, 2025
Israel launched a military strike after it said Hamas militants attacked its soldiers, the latest clashes in the two months since a truce was signed.
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Dec 04, 2025
The Israeli government authorized 22 settlements in May, the largest expansion in decades, and Palestinian families are now being forced from their homes.
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Dec 04, 2025
The militant group took more than 250 hostages from Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, including 31 from Thailand. The remains of all but one other hostage, an Israeli, have been recovered.
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Dec 03, 2025
The separatists were battling to secure the region's oil fields, residents and the group's officials said. Their swift advance could be a turning point in Yemen's decade-long civil war.
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Dec 03, 2025
Diplomats from both countries joined a military-led committee overseeing a year-old truce as fears mounted of a renewed Israeli offensive against Hezbollah.
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Dec 03, 2025
Israel had agreed to open the Rafah crossing as part of the October cease-fire deal with Hamas but kept it closed. Egypt denied that the border would reopen soon.
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Dec 03, 2025
For the first time in decades, ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are being called to serve in the country's military. The community is furious, with protesters and military-age men openly defying the draft.
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Dec 02, 2025
The trip comes days before the anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and as Lebanon is navigating the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel.
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Dec 02, 2025
A waterfront Mass in the Lebanese capital capped the pope's three-day visit to the Middle Eastern nation with the largest proportion of Christians.
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Dec 02, 2025
We asked readers for their questions for The Times's executive editor about how we cover the news and make judgment calls in our reporting and editing.
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Dec 02, 2025
A prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut explosion and a waterfront Mass capped his three-day visit to the Middle Eastern nation with the highest proportion of Christians.
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Dec 01, 2025
In many ways, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request mimics how President Trump has assailed his perceived enemies and attacked legal proceedings against him.
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Dec 01, 2025
Young people across Iran have been leading a dramatic change in social mores in recent months. "We have a fearless young generation that is breaking taboos."
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Nov 30, 2025
The pope, en route to Lebanon after visiting Turkey, said he had discussed with the Turkish president how the Vatican might help Israel and the Palestinian territories find peace.
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Nov 30, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the contentious appeal weeks after President Trump made the same request to the Israeli president.
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Nov 30, 2025
The move comes two weeks after President Trump wrote to Israel's president urging a pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Nov 30, 2025
The pontiff is set to meet political leaders and say Mass at a Beirut port destroyed by an explosion five years ago. It is the first papal visit to Lebanon since 2012.
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Nov 29, 2025
The Israeli military said it had fired on two "suspects" on Saturday who had crossed cease-fire lines in southern Gaza and did not comment on reports that they were young children.
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Nov 29, 2025
Segev Kalfon said he endured physical abuse and mind games during 738 days in the hands of Hamas. Now, he asks why it took so long for Israel to bring him home.
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Nov 29, 2025
Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The abuses of the old Assad regime still await a reckoning.
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Nov 28, 2025
The Israeli authorities said they were reviewing the shooting, which came amid days of extensive military operations in the West Bank.
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Nov 28, 2025
In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world's largest Christian groups.
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Nov 27, 2025
The strike is the latest in a string of attacks on energy infrastructure in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, which some regional authorities have privately blamed on Iran-affiliated militias.
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Nov 27, 2025
Leo XIV arrived in the country's capital, Ankara, and will be received by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the opening leg of a trip that will also include Lebanon.
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Nov 27, 2025
Leo XIV arrived in the country's capital, Ankara, and will be received by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the opening leg of a trip that will also take in Lebanon.
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Nov 27, 2025
The pontiff begins a trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Thursday — the first foreign voyage of his papacy, and his biggest test yet.
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Nov 26, 2025
American diplomats were told to raise U.S. concerns about "violent crimes associated with people of a migration background."
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Nov 26, 2025
As Israel's head of military intelligence, he disregarded signs Egypt and Syria were about to attack in 1973. A commission blamed him for the lack of preparation.
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Nov 26, 2025
Despite a cease-fire with Hezbollah, almost daily strikes demonstrate an embolden Israel's strategy to eliminate its enemies any time, anywhere.
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Nov 26, 2025
Leo XIV will meet political and religious leaders in Turkey and Lebanon, providing an early test of his geopolitical mettle. Here's what to know.
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Nov 25, 2025
The demonstrations followed unrest over the weekend in Homs, Syria's third-largest city, which set off reprisal attacks on Alawites, a community once favored by the ousted Assad regime.
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Nov 25, 2025
The remains were not yet identified. Before the handover on Tuesday, Israel said the bodies of three other captives were still in the enclave.
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Nov 25, 2025
The project could offer relief for tens of thousands of Palestinians who have endured two years of war, but has raised questions about whether it could entrench the partition of Gaza into Israeli- and Hamas-controlled zones.
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Nov 24, 2025
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it had succeeded in delivering million of meals in the war-torn enclave, but some Palestinian were killed trying to obtain them.
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Nov 24, 2025
The government acted quickly to tamp down reprisals in the central city of Homs as it tries to manage repeated waves of bloodshed involving minority groups.
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Nov 23, 2025
About a dozen people were told they face dismissal or discipline for mistakes tied to the deadly Hamas-led attack that set off the war in Gaza.
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Nov 23, 2025
Escalating its attacks on the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, Israel killed Hezbollah's military chief of staff in an airstrike on an apartment building.
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Nov 22, 2025
Violence has repeatedly flared up in the weeks since a cease-fire was reached, killing hundreds of Palestinians and at least three Israeli soldiers.
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Nov 21, 2025
In this year's contest, a campaign by Israel to encourage voting for its entrant drew criticism.
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Nov 21, 2025
More than 100,000 people disappeared during the 13-year civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.
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Nov 20, 2025
It is unclear what President Trump will do to end a brutal civil war in which both sides are backed by U.S. allies, but his statement that he will try has raised hopes for peace.
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Nov 20, 2025
It is unclear what President Trump will do to end a brutal civil war in which both sides are backed by U.S. allies, but his statement that he will try has raised hopes for peace.
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Nov 20, 2025
Iran's foreign minister said his country would halt plans for a reinstatement of nuclear inspections at a time of heightened concern over Iran's enriched uranium.
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Nov 20, 2025
Mohammed bin Salman was briefly a global pariah after the killing of a Saudi dissident. But he has rebuilt his image as a deal-maker and influential investor.
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Nov 20, 2025
Prince Mohammed was briefly a global pariah after the killing of a Saudi dissident. But over the years he has rebuilt his image as a deal-maker and influential investor.
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