Israel again expands Gaza war as Netanyahu vows he’s changing the Middle East. The endgame is unclear as ever
Israel has troops in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. It’s vowed to demilitarize huge swaths of all three – backed by an ...
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Trump admin ups the tempo of airstrikes against jihadist groups in Somalia
By the end of March 2025, the Trump administration already launched at least 16 air and drone strikes inside Somalia. In comparison, the Biden administration only launched 10 strikes in 2024.
Who are the international students the Trump administration has targeted for deportation across the country?
Federal immigration authorities have targeted at least seven international students in addition to recent Columbia University ...
Syria swears in new transitional government months after Assad’s removal
Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power ...
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Syria’s Leader Appoints One Woman in New Government, a Christian Who Graduated from Tufts in U.S.
Shara, who led the coalition of rebel forces that ousted President Bashar al-Assad in December, announced Saturday the formation of a new caretaker government, wh ...
Syrians Wake Up to a New Government
The list of ministers appears to be a compromise between calls for a diverse cabinet to unite the divided country while ...
Syria forms diverse new government under President Shara’a
The government includes ministers who were educated in the West, one woman, and members of the Druze, Kurdish, Christian, and ...
Syria’s Leader Announces New Government After Ousting Dictator
The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...
Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys fighting to keep the case in New Jersey. Here's what happened in court.
Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist detained by ICE, are fighting to keep ...
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U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Mapping the Military Presence
The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the ...
UN's WFP says 58 million face hunger crisis after huge shortfall in aid
The U.N. World Food Programme warned on Friday that 58 million people were at risk of extreme hunger or starvation unless ...
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Harrisburg area refugees share their stories, perspectives amidst shifting immigration landscape
The landscape of refugee resettlement in the United States is changing rapidly, due to policy updates by the federal government and increasingly charged public discourse surrounding immigration. As a ...