Despite Kurdish, Iraqi and American forces arrayed against it, ISIS has been hanging onto its final patch in Syria — and still exporting trouble.
The U.N. is seeking about $25 billion, an increase of about 10 percent, even though relief agencies are becoming more efficient.
The captured operative was a midlevel official best known for having paraded captured Kurdish soldiers in cages.
Syria accused rebel forces of launching an attack in Aleppo that sent scores of choking victims to hospitals. Medical officials suspected chlorine had been used.
Raed Fares’s videos and protest placards drew international attention to the plight of Syrians while angering both the government and extremists.
In this documentary a filmmaker embeds himself with a jihadist family, presenting himself as a sympathizer, but sheds little light on their inner lives.
Recently arrived refugees in the United States prepare to cook the most American of feasts.