Four women and nine children arrived in Australia from detention camps in northeast Syria after a yearslong controversy over their fate.
The city on the Euphrates, once a cradle of civilization, suffered under a succession of recent rulers. Our visit found it hoping for change.
A federal appeals court threw out a conviction that said Akayed Ullah provided “material support” to ISIS, putting a prosecutorial tool under the microscope.
The profit motive was on trial. The verdict was scathing.
The transition signals the end of a formal U.S. military presence in Syria for the first time in more than a decade.
The defendants, Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, face federal charges in the homemade-bomb attack on an anti-Muslim protest in March. No one was injured.
For many middle- and working-class New Yorkers, it’s an even more distant possibility than it used to be.