President Trump signed an executive order this week lifting most sanctions on Syria. Ahead of that action, U.S. officials laid out expectations from the new government in Damascus.
The youth, a Syrian who lives in Germany, was accused of helping to interpret bomb-building instructions and of translating an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State for the main suspect.
The attack on a Greek Orthodox service made clear the challenges facing Syria’s new government in a country long pitted by sectarian divides.
Putin and the ayatollahs want the same kind of world.
For many middle- and working-class New Yorkers, it’s an even more distant possibility than it used to be.