Syrian Army Crosses New Threshold With Advances in Kurdish Regions
The Syrian Army has moved into vast new regions, seeking to erase the largest fissure left from the civil war.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Iran’s Protests Have Ended, but the Anger and Pain Haven’t
A billboard showing the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, alongside the Islamic Republic’s founding leader, in Tehran, Iran, last month.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
In Hungary, Marco Rubio Stresses Trump’s Support for Viktor Orban
Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Budapest on Monday with Prime Minister Victor Orban of Hungary. Mr. Orban is facing a potentially tough challenge in national elections in April.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Ticket Scam Cost the Louvre $12 Million, Investigators Say
Investigators said the suspected scam at the Louvre museum in Paris involved tour guides reusing tickets for different people.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Prices Jump as Venezuelans Abroad Consider Buying Property Back Home
The capture of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has helped spur growing interest in buying real estate in the country.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
In Xi Jinping’s Purge of the Military, a Search for Absolute Loyalty
President Xi Jinping of China at a ceremony with members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army last year. Over the past two years, Mr. Xi has removed five of the six generals in China’s top military body.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Cortina’s 70-Year-Old Curling Stadium Is a Star at the Winter Olympics
The roof of the at the Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo, which is hosting the 2026 Games with Milan.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Three American Speeches at Munich, and Plenty of Confusion
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday in Budapest, Hungary, where he traveled after addressing the Munich Security Conference.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending
Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Europe Today Looks Different From the One Trump’s Team Describes
Speaking over the weekend at the Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “We are part of one civilization: Western civilization.”
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Trump’s Stinging Attack on Israel’s President Touches a Nerve
President Trump with Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport in October.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Iran Holds Exercises in Strait of Hormuz After Trump Threatens Military Action
The Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane for oil and gas, connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
How Spain Is Carving a Different Path on Immigration
Lining up outside the Venezuelan Embassy in Madrid last month.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Dana Eden, Co-Creator of ‘Tehran,’ Dies During Filming of Fourth Season
Dana Eden at the premier of Season 2 of “Tehran” in New York in 2022.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Gisèle Pelicot Speaks
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Islamist Party’s Rise Overshadows Student Revolution in Bangladesh
A poster of Shafiqur Rahman, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, on Thursday outside a polling station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Will A.I. Kill Translation Jobs?
Browsing a bookstore in Paris. Book publishing is an example of how artificial intelligence is sweeping the translation field.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
An undated photo of the compound where the deportees are being held in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
French Prosecutors to Investigate Diplomat as Part of Epstein Probe
The Santé prison in Paris, where Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent and Epstein associate who died in February 2022, was held.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen of Brazil and Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan Win Olympic Gold Medals
Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won the gold medal in men’s figure skating on Friday at the Winter Olympics in Milan.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Pakistan Accused of Denying Treatment for Imran Khan’s Failing Eyesight
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2023.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Thousands Rally for Iran Regime Change in Cities Around the World
Protesters held up flags of Iran from before the revolution at a Saturday demonstration organized on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Milo Rau’s ‘Hate Radio,’ ‘Pelicot Trial’ and More Theater of the Real
With his stage work, the Swiss director-activist Milo Rau examines episodes of historical violence in an attempt to give audiences some measure of insight.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Roy Medvedev, Soviet Era Historian and Dissident, Is Dead at 100
Roy Medvedev in Moscow in 1990. In the West, he was known as the most independent historian of the Soviet era.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Navalny Was Poisoned With Frog Toxin, European Governments Say
Aleksei A. Navalny in his office in Moscow in 2014. He was President Vladimir V. Putin’s most prominent political opponent when he died in a Russian prison in 2024.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Zelensky rules out holding elections until there is a cease-fire with Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
After Mass Shooting, the Town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia Is Forever Changed
Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Governor General Mary Simon joined hands during a prayer by an Indigenous elder at the Tumbler Ridge vigil.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Open Road
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Europe’s Reaction to Rubio: Relief, Up to a Point
Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, with Wolfgang Ischinger, the conference chairman, at the Munich Security Conference, on Saturday.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
In Munich, Rubio Stresses Shared History to Europeans but Warns of ‘Civilizational Erasure’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking at the Munich Security Conference.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Brazil, the World’s Largest Catholic Nation, Embraces Polyamory
Friends and members of the same polycule, from left, Victor Souza, Jessica Couri, Rafael Pissurno and Iuli Duerte, meeting for breakfast in Rio de Janeiro.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Japan Releases Chinese Boat Captain After Detaining Him for 30 Hours
A photo released by Japan’s Fisheries Agency shows a Japanese patrol vessel, left, and a Chinese fishing boat that was seized off the coast of Nagasaki on Thursday.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Here’s the latest.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
How Peter Biar Ajak, a Sudanese Peace Activist, Was Caught Plotting a Coup
Peter Biar Ajak after returning to the United States in 2020. A federal court in Arizona sentenced him to prison last week after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. weapons export laws.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
New Research Absolves the Woman Blamed for a Dynasty’s Ruin
Researchers digging to unearth remnants of what is believed to have been a fortified gate guarding an entrance to the capital of the Western Zhou dynasty, near Hejia Village, China, in December.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
First U.S. Troops Land in Nigeria for Trump-Led Christian Mission
A damaged door frame at a church in Nigeria, where worshipers were kidnapped after being attacked by gunmen, in Kurmin Wali, Kaduna, last month.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
U.N. Condemns U.S. Measures Halting Oil Deliveries to Cuba
A street in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, this month during a scheduled outage as part of energy rationing.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Said to Have Raised First Pledges for Gaza
Children collecting paper and plastic at a garbage dump in Gaza last month. Vast sections of the territory were destroyed in the war.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
The Mutually Beneficial Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein and Thorbjorn Jagland
Thorbjorn Jagland, center left, a former prime minister of Norway, in Oslo on Thursday. A recently released tranche of emails revealed his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
At Munich Summit, European Leaders Agree With Trump: The Old World Order Is Over
President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Germany’s leader says his country is in discussions with France on a European nuclear deterrent.
President Emmanuel Macron of France and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany at an informal E.U. leaders’ retreat in Belgium on Thursday.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
Macron urges Europe to step up on the global stage and stresses unity on major issues, particularly Ukraine.
President Emmanuel Macron of France, in remarks at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, implicitly warned the United States not to exclude Europe from talks on security guarantees for Ukraine.
Posted by
Thomas
on February 2026
In Munich, Europe Says It Is ‘De-risking’ From the U.S. Amid Trump’s Unpredictability
Can’t Buy Love? Kenya Bans Bouquets Made of Cash.
How $40-a-Pack Cigarettes Pushed Australians to the Black Market
How Italy’s Federica Brignone Won Gold in Giant Slalom.
You’d Be Surprised to See Where Many Olympians Keep Their Medals
No miracle, but Denmark hockey team gives U.S. a good fight.
Scotty James Is Edged Out by Yuto Totsuka of Japan in the Halfpipe.
Life in Beirut Beneath the Drones
Ilia Malinin’s catastrophic free skate: ‘I blew it.’
Key Moments in Gisèle Pelicot’s Interview With The New York Times
Gisèle Pelicot, the Woman at the Center of Rape Trial That Shook France, Shares Her Story