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Aug 17, 2018
An exhibition at the Uffizi gallery in Florence shows how the city benefited from dialogue with the Muslim world.
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Aug 17, 2018
Ten tons of letters and packages, which Israel had prevented from entering the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, have finally been released.
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Aug 16, 2018
The cheese was found in a tomb that had been thought lost to shifting sands until it was rediscovered in 2010.
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Aug 16, 2018
The attack killed Zaki Shingali, a leader of a group that Turkey calls a terrorist organization, but he was considered a hero to the Yazidi minority in Iraq for his efforts to help them.
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Aug 15, 2018
Omar Ameen, 45, who is also a longtime member of Al Qaeda, lied to obtain refugee status in 2014, prosecutors say.
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Aug 15, 2018
Omar Ameen, 45, who is also a longtime member of Al Qaeda, lied to obtain refugee status in 2014, prosecutors say.
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Aug 15, 2018
The sum is a small fraction of what Turkey needs to shore up its faltering economy, but it was a symbolically important sign of international support.
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Aug 15, 2018
The military said its inquiry into one of the war's bloodiest episodes found no criminal wrongdoing by Israeli forces.
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Aug 15, 2018
An airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition on a bus carrying Yemeni children casts new light on the United States' role in the war there.
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Aug 15, 2018
Ten tons of letters and packages, which Israel had prevented from entering the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, have finally been released.
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Aug 15, 2018
Born to a Jewish family in Egypt, Mr. Mizrahi was the first Israeli filmmaker to win an Academy Award and is still the only one.
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Aug 15, 2018
Moving to stabilize a shaky cease-fire with the Hamas-governed enclave, the Israelis lifted the five-week ban on all goods other than food, medicine and humanitarian equipment.
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Aug 15, 2018
Ankara also sharply raised tariffs on American-made alcohol, cars and tobacco, ramping up the trade dispute between the countries.
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Aug 15, 2018
While calm has returned to a Christian area of Syria ravaged by the Islamic State, the traumatized people have not, with whole villages emptied. "There are so few of us," says a church official.
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Aug 14, 2018
Joint operations between American and Turkish troops are still being planned. But officials worry about Turkey's reliability as a battlefield partner.
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Aug 14, 2018
Marc and Debra Tice, whose son, Austin, has been missing in Syria since Aug. 14, 2012, said the Trump administration was committed to bringing him home.
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Aug 14, 2018
Relatives of the spy, who was killed behind enemy lines, have struggled to receive death benefits without his body as legal proof of death.
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Aug 14, 2018
The remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan come as the country grapples with a worsening economic crisis and a widening diplomatic dispute with the United States.
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Aug 14, 2018
The remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan come as the country grapples with a worsening economic crisis and a widening diplomatic dispute with the United States.
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Aug 14, 2018
The remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan come as the country grapples with a worsening economic crisis and a widening diplomatic dispute with the United States.
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Aug 14, 2018
C.J. Chivers's "The Fighters" provides gut-wrenching descriptions of the battles in the Middle East
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Aug 13, 2018
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei went further than he had before in blaming President Hassan Rouhani for the failing nuclear deal and Iran's economic travails.
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Aug 12, 2018
In a huge security operation, Jordanian forces laid siege to a building in a residential part of the city of Salt in search of those responsible for an earlier bomb attack on a police van.
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Aug 12, 2018
An explosion in a residential building thought to be storing weapons and ammunition in the rebel-held province of Idlib killed at least 39 people, including 12 children, a war monitor said.
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Aug 12, 2018
When a neighbor dies, our Tehran correspondent attends the funeral at one of the world's largest cemeteries, where mourning rituals are carried out on an industrial scale.
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Aug 12, 2018
The story of the mole who posed as a jihadist in the Islamic State, and the most important antiterrorism agency that most people have never heard of.
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Aug 10, 2018
Frustrated by Turkish delays in releasing an American pastor, President Trump announced economic sanctions as Turkey's currency plummets.
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Aug 10, 2018
The items, which include clay cones with cuneiform inscriptions, were seized by the British police in 2003 from a now-defunct London art dealer.
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Aug 10, 2018
An angry tweet from President Trump ramping up tariffs worsened the lira's fall. The consequences for Turkey and its neighbors could be severe.
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Aug 10, 2018
The loss of confidence in the currency reflects tension between Ankara and Washington, as well as concerns among foreign investors over domestic policies.
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Aug 09, 2018
The attack drew new attention to the great human toll of Yemen's war. The Saudi-led coalition said it was part of a "legitimate military operation."
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Aug 09, 2018
Experts on both sides of the lines said Israel and Hamas might be trying to improve their negotiating positions for a truce by letting their guns talk.
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Aug 09, 2018
The attack drew new attention to the great human toll of Yemen's war. The Saudi-led coalition said it was part of a "legitimate military operation."
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Aug 09, 2018
The attack drew new attention to the great human toll of Yemen's war. The Saudi-led coalition said it was part of a "legitimate military operation."
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Aug 08, 2018
Residents of Arsal, which had four times as many Syrians as local residents, hope the winding down of the Syrian war will allow refugees to return.
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Aug 08, 2018
Israel and Hamas exchanged blows across the Gaza border as Egypt and the United Nations tried to broker a long-term cease-fire.
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Aug 08, 2018
Israel and Hamas exchanged blows across the Gaza border as Egypt and the United Nations tried to broker a long-term cease-fire.
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Aug 08, 2018
To push back against rights complaints, the kingdom is pulling patients, doctors and students from Canadian institutions and refusing to buy Canadian grain.
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Aug 08, 2018
Residents of Arsal, which had four times as many Syrians as local residents, hope the winding down of the Syrian war will allow refugees to return.
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Aug 07, 2018
David D. Kirkpatrick's "Into the Hands of the Soldiers" describes the heady days when democracy seemed a possibility in Egypt.
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Aug 07, 2018
The car bombing was said to be at least the fourth Israeli assassination attempt against an enemy weapons engineer on foreign soil in the last three years.
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Aug 06, 2018
The car bombing was said to be at least the fourth Israeli assassination of an enemy weapons engineer on foreign soil in the last three years.
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Aug 06, 2018
The Trump administration is betting that the sanctions, which had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear accord that the president abandoned, will force Iran to curb its weapons program.
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Aug 06, 2018
New passenger planes landed at Tehran's airport, Iranians bought gold and other bulwarks against economic distress and the government introduced measures to ease the hardship.
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Aug 06, 2018
New passenger planes landed at Tehran's airport, Iranians bought gold and other bulwarks against economic distress and the government introduced measures to ease the hardship.
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Aug 06, 2018
With a harsh response to statements from Canada's Foreign Ministry, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signals that while he may be a social reformer, he will strike hard at critics at home and abroad.
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Aug 06, 2018
The sanctions, which had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear accord that the Trump administration abandoned, will be reimposed at midnight.
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Aug 06, 2018
As Saudi-led forces try to wrest a crucial port city in Yemen from Houthi rebels, each side blamed the other for an escalation in fighting.
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Aug 06, 2018
As Saudi-led forces try to wrest a crucial port city in Yemen from Houthi rebels, each side blamed the other for an escalation in fighting.
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Aug 06, 2018
As Saudi-led forces try to wrest a crucial port city in Yemen from Houthi rebels, each side blamed the other for an escalation in fighting.
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Aug 06, 2018
Sanctions on Iran had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear accord, which the Trump administration abandoned, and will be reimposed at midnight.
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Aug 06, 2018
It also froze new business with Canada over what it called "overt and blatant interference" in its internal affairs.
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Aug 04, 2018
While the government is not threatened, more demonstrators have been expressing anger on the streets, and they are not complaining about America.
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Aug 03, 2018
The Red Cross said strikes on Al Hudaydah left 55 people dead, nearly double the initial tally reported Thursday. The Saudi-led coalition blamed the Houthis.
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Aug 03, 2018
A trip along the Euphrates reveals damaged and depopulated towns, and an uneasy front held by a tenuous American presence.
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Aug 03, 2018
Three books relate the individual accounts of people caught up in events larger than themselves.
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Aug 02, 2018
Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Al- Hudaydah, occupied by Houthi rebels, killed at least 30 people, medical workers said.
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Aug 02, 2018
Caucher Birkar, a Cambridge University professor, was one of four winners of the award, which is regarded as the world's most prestigious prize for math.
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Aug 01, 2018
David M. Halbfinger, The Times's Jerusalem bureau chief, found Google Translate useful in Israeli and Palestinian territory, but Waze sometimes reaches a dead end.
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Jul 31, 2018
As the economic pressure on ordinary Iranians intensifies, many seem to be questioning their leadership's resolve not to talk with President Trump.
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Jul 31, 2018
The Druse minority have long fought for the Jewish state. Now they are fighting for equality, which is missing from a law declaring Israel "the nation-state of the Jewish people."
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Jul 29, 2018
Our national security law expert in Washington made his first of many reporting trips to Guantánamo Bay in 2003. Earlier this month, he toured ISIS fighter prisons in Syria.
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Jul 29, 2018
Despite billions of dollars spent since the 2003 United States-led invasion, many Iraqi cities and towns experience severe power cuts and rolling blackouts.
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Jul 29, 2018
The 17-year-old was greeted with banners, cheers and flags in her West Bank home after her eight-month sentence. "Resistance is continuing," she said.
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Jul 27, 2018
Ms. Skaf fled to Paris after being arrested and harassed and receiving death threats when she spoke out against the Syrian government.
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Jul 27, 2018
Our national security law expert in Washington made his first of many reporting trips to Guantánamo Bay in 2003. Earlier this month, he toured ISIS fighter prisons in Syria.
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Jul 26, 2018
Our national security law expert in Washington has been writing about legal and policy problems related to the government's handling of captured terrorism suspects since 2003.
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Jul 26, 2018
The State Department released $195 million in aid to Egypt, a year after it was blocked over concerns about President Sisi's human rights record.
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Jul 26, 2018
Qassim Suleimani, the shadowy commander of Iran's paramilitary Quds Force, ridiculed President Trump's Twitter warning as "cabaret-style rhetoric."
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Jul 26, 2018
Syrian families have suddenly learned that missing relatives have been registered as dead by the government. Rights groups call it an admission that they were killed in prison.
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Jul 26, 2018
Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, an influential Iranian military leader, ridiculed President Trump for his tweets threatening Iran's president.
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Jul 25, 2018
The head of Iran's central bank since 2013 was fired as the country grappled with a weakened currency, tied in part to renewed U.S. sanctions.
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Jul 25, 2018
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees is also curtailing mental health services and mobile health clinics.
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Jul 25, 2018
In a series of attacks in Sweida Province, jihadists from the Islamic State proved that they could still inflict damage, despite having lost territory.
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Jul 25, 2018
The U.S. said the move was ‘not enough.' Mr. Brunson, who was arrested after the failed 2016 coup in Turkey, is the focus of an intensive campaign by American officials seeking his freedom.
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Jul 25, 2018
Andrew Brunson, who was arrested after the failed 2016 coup in Turkey, is the focus of an intensive campaign by U.S. officials seeking his freedom.
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Jul 25, 2018
Smartphone video, now used to document abuses across the globe, has been crucial in telling the outside world about Syria's war, says Anne Barnard, Beirut bureau chief for The Times.
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Jul 25, 2018
In a series of attacks in Sweida Province, jihadists from the Islamic State proved that they could still inflict damage, despite having lost territory.
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Jul 25, 2018
The secretary of state, in a speech to Iranian-Americans, sought their support in an indictment of Iran's leaders, whom he likened to Mafia gangsters.
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Jul 24, 2018
The largest bloc of developing countries at the United Nations has chosen Palestine, an observer state, as its next leader.
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Jul 24, 2018
The Syrian jet crossed into Israeli-controlled airspace, Israel said, in a rare incursion. Israel last shot down a Syrian warplane in 2014.
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Jul 24, 2018
The military capabilities of the United States dwarf those of Iran, and the Iranians know it. Still, they will not back down from a confrontation.
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Jul 23, 2018
The military capabilities of the United States dwarf those of Iran, and the Iranians know it. Still, they will not back down from a confrontation.
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Jul 23, 2018
The U.N. court is the most prominent international body to rule in a bitter feud dividing the Persian Gulf.
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Jul 23, 2018
President Trump threatened Iran after the country's president, Hassan Rouhani, himself warned of a confrontation that would be the "mother of all wars."
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Jul 22, 2018
President Trump threatened Iran after the country's president, Hassan Rouhani, himself warned of a confrontation that would be the "mother of all wars."
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Jul 22, 2018
The government extended surrogacy rights to single women, but rejected an amendment that would have included same-sex couples.
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Jul 22, 2018
Israelis are less alone than they once were in questioning the half-century-old consensus that democracy should always prevail over national identity.
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Jul 22, 2018
Israelis are less alone than they once were in questioning the half-century-old consensus that democracy should always prevail over national identity.
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Jul 22, 2018
The Israeli government facilitated the passage of the rescue workers and their families through its territory to Jordan so that they could be resettled abroad.
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Jul 22, 2018
The Israeli government facilitated the passage of the rescue workers and their families through its territory to Jordan so that they could be resettled abroad.
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Jul 21, 2018
They stepped back from the brink of all-out conflict on Saturday, but none of the underlying tensions have been resolved.
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Jul 20, 2018
Parliament moved aggressively to push through a series of polarizing measures, piling up points at the expense of its already weakened foes.
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Jul 20, 2018
After a Palestinian sniper killed an Israeli soldier along the border fence and Israel responded with "a wide-scale attack" against Hamas military targets.
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Jul 19, 2018
A black sarcophagus found in a pit in Alexandria, Egypt, last week was opened on Thursday after much speculation over who, or what, was inside.
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Jul 19, 2018
A sarcophagus found in a pit in Alexandria last week was opened after much speculation over who, or what, was inside.
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Jul 19, 2018
A sarcophagus found in a pit in Alexandria last week was opened after much speculation over who, or what, was inside.
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Jul 19, 2018
Ibraheem Musaibli, who is from Michigan, is being held in Syria. So is an Indiana woman whose husband died fighting for ISIS. The U.S. is bringing them home.
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Jul 19, 2018
After an Egyptian cobra bit a famous Turkish illusionist, officials scrambled to get him to Cairo for treatment. It was a rare instance of cooperation between the countries.
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Jul 19, 2018
Critics say that by giving a special status to Jews — and downgrading the status of the Arabic language — the legislation diminishes non-Jewish citizens.
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