Psychologists find that story time can build the strong relationships they need for healthy development.
New Zealand’s view about releasing details of the captivity of Louisa Akavi is that it “increased the risks to her life.”
The abduction of Louisa Akavi, a nurse from New Zealand, was kept secret for years. Now the aid group is breaking its silence in hopes of saving her.
Istanbul has become the hub for dissidents from around the Arab world, who broadcast opposing views back into their homelands. At the same time, many local Turkish journalists remain jailed.
Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, a Brooklyn-born tank driver, went missing after a disastrous ambush in Lebanon in 1982. Israel never stopped searching for him.
Will Venezuela be the place where President Trump, who has often seemed to tolerate Russian provocations, finally draws his own red line?
President Trump is making it harder to know how many civilians the government kills by remote control.
Hundreds of the 2,000 American troops in Syria are leaving, but new plans will pause the withdrawal before reaching the 400-troop level President Trump approved.
Despite the proclaimed victory against the Islamic State, the long war will continue.
The Al Hol camp in northern Syria holds more than 72,000 people from various countries. Many of them fled the last strip of territory held by the Islamic State.
“I just want to go back to a normal life”: The Times visited a camp in Syria where women and children who fled ISIS territory are stuck in limbo.
Analysts question how much the funding cuts will change behavior and Hezbollah’s leader called them “a form of war.”
If Israel takes territory “in a defensive war, then it’s ours,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said, a precedent that could apply to the West Bank. Legal experts disagreed.
It can be managed but never really cured.
There was no need to call for recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Syrian territory.
Thousands of Islamic State fighters are still at large in Iraq and Syria, rearming and regrouping. And the group pose threats elsewhere, in Afghanistan, West Africa and the Philippines.
A well-educated pair from the Philippines have been captured in Syria after becoming high-profile recruiters for the terrorist group.
The blast occurred hours after a U.S.-backed militia announced that the Islamic State had been routed from its last patch of Syrian territory.
Make no mistake: The group will be back unless the conditions that gave birth to it are addressed.
The Islamic State remains a serious, violent threat.
American-backed forces took the last remnant of territory under Islamic State rule in Syria, but signs of the group’s resurgence are already visible.
Military officials said clashes in Syria against the Islamic State hadn’t stopped, hours after the White House press secretary claimed the caliphate was “100 percent eliminated.”
The president’s announcement on the Golan Heights will finally free us from the “land for peace” formula that none of us believe in anyway.
The muted Arab response to President Trump’s call to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the territory shows Syria’s weakness amid a reordered Arab world.
The muted Arab response to President Trump’s call to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the territory shows Syria’s weakness amid a reordered Arab world.
Israel’s right-wing leaders are reading signals from Washington as a green light.
On Thursday, President Trump tweeted about a hilly plateau beside the Sea of Galilee that has been one of Israel’s quieter frontiers for 52 years.
Israel won the territory from Syria in 1967 and annexed it in 1981 in a move that has never been recognized internationally.
Mr. Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy by declaring that Israel should have sovereignty over the Golan Heights — a move that has never been recognized internationally.
Thousands of fighters remain in the region, but they have gone underground, carrying out quick strikes in the region and continuing to promote their ideology worldwide.
Thousands of fighters remain in the region, but they have gone underground, carrying out quick strikes in the region and continuing to promote their ideology worldwide.
Thousands of fighters remain in the region, but they have gone underground, carrying out quick strikes in the region and continuing to promote their ideology worldwide.
Thousands of fighters remain in the region, but they have gone underground, carrying out quick strikes in the region and continuing to promote their ideology worldwide.
President Trump updated an earlier assertion that the territory held by the group in Syria was “100 percent” reclaimed, despite reports of continuing fighting.
President Trump updated an earlier assertion that the territory held by the group in Syria was “100 percent” reclaimed, despite reports of continuing fighting.