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As Iranian Teens Lead Protests, Scores Are Killed or Imprisoned

Tuesday 13-12-2022 02:57 PM

Sarina Esmailzadeh, a 16-year-old Iranian, once documented sunny outings at her shopping mall in Karaj, an industrial town near Tehran, on her YouTube channel. She often used Western imagery in her ...

Iran’s Islamic Leaders Face a Crisis of Faith as Protests Swell

Monday 12-12-2022 04:31 PM

For decades, Iran’s clerical leaders have striven to make sure their country stays on a conservative, Islamic path. They have expanded religious education. The faithful have been urged to have more ...

How Washington Persuaded Europe to Put a Price Cap on Russian Oil

Monday 12-12-2022 04:13 PM

Seventy-two hours before they hoped to launch an unprecedented new plan to set a cap on the price of Russian oil, Biden administration officials faced a problem: Poland hadn’t yet signed off on the ...

How Erdogan’s ‘Canary Wharf of Turkey’ became symbol of decline

Monday 12-12-2022 03:53 PM

On the side of a six-lane highway in Istanbul, a gleaming set of new skyscrapers rises through car fumes. One is a twisting column of glass and steel with aesthetic echoes of the Gherkin, and ...

Spat Over Patriot Missiles Reveals Deepening Rifts in Europe Over Ukraine

Sunday 11-12-2022 03:18 PM

A bitter political and diplomatic rift between Germany and Poland, both important members of the European Union and NATO, has worsened as Russia’s war in Ukraine has ground on, undermining cohesion ...

Russia and Iran working on building joint drone production lines

Sunday 11-12-2022 02:06 PM

Iran and Russia have deepened their military alliance and are working on building joint drone production lines, British and US intelligence have warned. The Ministry of Defence said that the Kremlin ...

Fierce claims to Crimea highlight slim chance of Russia-Ukraine peace deal

Sunday 11-12-2022 12:58 PM

After nine months of death and destruction, the key to Russia’s war against Ukraine lies in the craggy, sea-swept peninsula of Crimea — with its limestone plateaus and rows of poplar trees — which ...

How the U.S. Can Compromise With Turkey on Syria

Saturday 10-12-2022 06:33 PM

The latest crisis in the Turkey-U.S. relationship—Turkish threats to launch ground operations into Syria against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) Syrian Kurdish offshoot, the People’s Defense ...

Pentagon gives Ukraine green light for drone strikes inside Russia

Saturday 10-12-2022 06:31 PM

The Pentagon has given a tacit endorsement of Ukraine’s long-range attacks on targets inside Russia after President Putin’s multiple missile strikes against Kyiv’s critical infrastructure. Since ...

A Chatty Putin’s Underlying Message: I’m Still in Charge

Saturday 10-12-2022 05:57 PM

Friday evening, continuing to take questions in a news conference after his spokesman tried to end it, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia put forward a blunt thesis on the nature of truth. “You ...

U.S. troops are back in Somalia and scrambling to help its special forces

Saturday 10-12-2022 01:46 PM

The U.S. military is scrambling to make up for lost time in Somalia after President Biden this spring reversed his predecessor’s order to pull American soldiers out of the country and returned ...

Germany Arrests 25 Suspected of Planning to Overthrow Government

Friday 09-12-2022 01:55 PM

The plan was to storm the German Capitol, arrest lawmakers and execute the chancellor. A prince descended from German nobility would take over as the new head of state, and a former far-right member ...

Russia Moves to Bolster Defenses After Airfield Strikes

Thursday 08-12-2022 10:28 AM

Russia took steps to strengthen its defenses following a string of strikes deep within its borders that it blamed on Kyiv, while Moscow’s forces launched drones and missiles at southern Ukraine. ...

Strikes Across Iran Lead to Shuttered Shops and Ghost Towns

Wednesday 07-12-2022 04:57 PM

Businesses, shops and traditional bazaars in more than 50 cities across Iran were shuttered for a second day on Tuesday in what appeared to be one of the largest general strikes in decades, ...

Russian Oligarch Seizes 400,000 Acres of Ukrainian Farmland, Owners Say

Wednesday 07-12-2022 03:58 PM

Soon after Russian tanks rolled into eastern Ukraine, three of that country’s biggest farming operators lost tracts of land equivalent to more than twice the area of New York City. It wasn’t taken ...