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Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (right) shakes hands with Lebanon's army chief, Joseph Aoun, after he is elected as the country's president at the parliament building in Beirut, in January last year.

WORLD / Politics

May 1, 2026

Lebanon’s internal splits over talks with Israel trip up Saudi mediation efforts

Lebanese leaders remain at odds over the negotiation format and ultimate goal.

A pile of small crucifixes on the day of the Christian Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City on April 10. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that an Israeli soldier's desecration of a crucifix went against Jewish values of tolerance and that he would be punished.

WORLD / Politics

Apr 21, 2026

Israeli soldier’s desecration of crucifix in south Lebanon draws condemnation

A photo posted by Younis Tirawi, a Palestinian reporter, shows an Israeli soldier taking the blunt side of an axe to a fallen sculpture of Jesus on the ?cross.

A woman trapped in a damaged building waits to be rescued following an Israeli strike in Beirut on Wednesday.

WORLD / Politics

Apr 9, 2026

Iran says peace talks would be ‘unreasonable’ following Israeli strikes

Tehran and Washington have laid out sharply contrasting agendas for talks set to start on Saturday, but it was unclear whether the ceasefire would ?hold until then.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Dayr Seryan on Wednesday.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 26, 2026

Iran wants Lebanon included in any ceasefire, sources say

A ?senior Iranian official said?that Tehran was still reviewing a U.S. proposal ?to end the regional war, indicating that Tehran had so far stopped short of rejecting it outright.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is seen before U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on Oct. 13, 2025.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 24, 2026

Israeli minister calls for annexation of southern Lebanon

The comments by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich were the most explicit yet by a senior Israeli official on seizing Lebanese territory.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington on Sunday.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 16, 2026

Trump says he’s asked seven countries to join coalition to police Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. president insisted that nations relying heavily on oil from the Gulf have a responsibility to protect the strait.

A schoolgirl holds up a poster of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during an anti-U.S. and Israel demonstration in Baghdad on Thursday.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Mar 13, 2026

Both sides trade strikes and threats as the Iran war approaches the two-week mark

U.S. President Donald Trump derided Iran's leaders as “deranged scumbags” and said it was his great honor to kill them as the war in the Middle East approached the two-week mark on Friday with heavy exchanges of drone and missile strikes across the region.

An airplane flies overhead as smoke rises after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on March 6.

WORLD

Mar 9, 2026

As war spreads, airline pilots contend with drones, missiles — and stress

The outbreak of war in the Middle East has put hundreds of ballistic missiles and attack drones into the skies above some of the world’s busiest airports.

Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa delivers a speech on the first anniversary of Bashar Assad's fall, in Damascus on Dec. 8.

WORLD / Politics / FOCUS

Jan 22, 2026

How Syria’s al-Sharaa captured Kurdish-held areas while keeping the U.S. onside

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s rapid takeover of territory long held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces tested the boundaries of Washington’s support for him.

A woman holds a sign in Arabic that reads "our martyrs are not numbers," during a news conference in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 28.

WORLD

Dec 9, 2025

A year after Assad’s fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers

As Syria marks a year since Bashar Assad’s downfall, many people remain exhausted by the same burden that plagued them under his rule: the lack of closure.

Lebanon's flag is seen next to a damaged building in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila in Lebanon on Feb. 19.

WORLD / Politics

Oct 29, 2025

Lebanese army walks political tightrope to disarm Hezbollah

Hezbollah, which is designated a terrorist group by the U.S., was once the dominant political force in Lebanon.

Women walk near destroyed buildings, with one holding the flag of Hezbollah, in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila in February.

WORLD / FOCUS

Jul 5, 2025

Under pressure, Hezbollah weighs scaling back its arsenal

The internal discussions, which aren’t yet finalized, reflect the formidable pressures the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group has faced since a truce was reached in late November.

A man holds a Hezbollah flag in southern Lebanon. The militant group emerged severely weakened from the 2024 conflict with Israel.

WORLD / Politics

Apr 9, 2025

Hezbollah ready to discuss weapons if Israel withdraws, senior official says

U.S.-backed Lebanese President Joseph Aoun intends to open talks with Hezbollah over its arsenal soon, three Lebanese political sources said.

Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against an insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria, on March 7.

WORLD

Mar 17, 2025

‘Pray for us. They’ve arrived’: How Syria descended into revenge bloodshed

Just three months after Bashar Assad’s ouster, parts of western Syria descended into vengeful bloodletting.

A member of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands along a street after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar Assad, in Hasakah, Syria, on Dec. 11.

WORLD / Politics

Jan 20, 2025

Negotiators zero in on potential deal to disarm Syria’s last battleground

Many thorny issues still need to be resolved, however, including how to integrate Kurdish-led forces into Syria’s security framework.

A damaged poster of Syria's ousted leader, Bashar Assad, in Aleppo on Nov. 30

WORLD / FOCUS

Dec 15, 2024

Assad’s final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight

Hours before he fled to Moscow, Assad assured army and security chiefs that Russian support was on its way and urged ground forces to hold out.

Farhan al-Khouli, a Syrian military conscript who deserted his post on the first day of the rebel offensive, works at a horse stable in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.

WORLD / Politics

Dec 13, 2024

Demoralized and abandoned by allies: Why Syria’s army failed to fight

Rampant corruption and a heavy reliance on foreign allies hollowed out Bashar Assad’s once-feared army.

A man checks a tunnel found under a mosque in Tadamon district, which is littered with bones, in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Dec 13, 2024

At site of suspected mass killings, Syrians recall horrors and seek answers

After Bashar Assad’s ouster, residents hope the site in Damascus’ Tadamon district can be cordoned off for those responsible to be held accountable.

A Syrian rebel fighter kisses a child as they gather in Homs after Syria's army command notified officers on Sunday that President Bashar Assad's 24-year authoritarian rule had ended on Sunday.

WORLD / FOCUS

Dec 9, 2024

How Syrian rebels’ stars aligned for Assad’s ouster

Opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen the president grip on power when, about six months ago, they received Turkey’s tacit blessing for a major offensive.

Members of the Amel Association, a Lebanese non-governmental organization, look out from their damaged branch at buildings destroyed or damaged in an Israeli strike, in Beirut's southern suburbs Hay el-Sellom neighborhood on Monday.

WORLD / Politics

Dec 3, 2024

Israel and Hezbollah exchange strikes as ceasefire violations mount

The exchanges of fire put a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the two in an increasingly fragile position less than a week after it took effect.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.

What Yokoze can teach Japan about rural revival

By Alex K.T. Martin

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