Multiple factors are helping Russia’s military advance, including a delay in American weaponry and Moscow’s technological innovations on the battlefield.
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Military analysts had speculated that Moscow could escalate such attacks as a show of force after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, its ally....
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Many women are making dangerous trips to places where loved ones are fighting Russian forces. “We try to imagine that for these two days, there is no war,” one said....
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Senate Republicans have largely embraced President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to run the bureau, demonstrating that his anti-F.B.I. stance is now party orthodoxy....
Russia is pushing toward Pokrovsk, a strategic city for Ukraine’s army with important rail and road connections, in a rapid capturing of ground in the Donetsk region....
Mullah Osman Jawhari led one of the deadliest assaults on American forces in Afghanistan, a battle that came to symbolize the war itself....
An ally’s downfall has prompted calls in Russia for a definitive victory closer to home....
It seems unlikely that deposed President Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia, will be forced to stand trial. That is not deterring activists who have worked for years to document his government’s crimes....
Though excitement and frenzy were on full display in some parts of Aleppo, the city is still gripped by uncertainty after the sudden end of a 13-year civil war....
Harvard, Penn and U.S.C. were among the universities and colleges that issued advisories in anticipation of possible travel bans....
Kristen McDonald Rivet won a tough House race in a heavily white, working-class area even as many Democrats in such places lost. In an interview, she warned against a “tone-deaf” economic message....
The transport route around the southern tip of Africa was once little used — but freighters are now forced to take it and are charging higher rates....
Boris and Svetlaya were raised together as orphaned cubs, and then reintroduced to the wild separately. But Boris went on a trek that surprised the researchers who were monitoring him....
Faced with a president-elect who has called global warming a “scam,” activists are changing their strategies and pushing a message of hope....
President Biden says he weakened Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, laying the groundwork for Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Syrian leader would still be in power had he listened to American advice....
An ultranationalist politician’s surge shows how many people there would rather forget the country’s fascist past during World War II, experts say....
Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight....
Amnesty International described it as a “human slaughterhouse,” where, other rights groups say, tens of thousands of people were detained, tortured and killed during the 13-year civil war....
The economic lifeline ensures that Ukraine will have economic support after President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office....
This time, when Bashar al-Assad started to fall, Russia was not there to catch him....
This former Soviet Republic has been rocked by anti-government demonstrations over the same issues that hurtled Ukraine into war — its relationship with Europe and Russia....
In a matter of days, Syria’s capital — once the stronghold of Bashar al-Assad’s government — became the epicenter of a new chapter in the country’s history after opposition forces overran the city. Christina Goldbaum, a New York Times correspondent, traveled to Damascus to find out how res...
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The officials, Jamil Hassan and Abdul Salam Mahmoud, ran an infamous prison in Damascus and “sought to terrify, intimidate and repress any opposition, or perceived opposition, to the regime,” according to the indictment....