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Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right

Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right

At the start of his second term President Trump has positioned himself at the crest of a global wave of hard-line conservative populism, offering fuel and inspiration to surging nationalist parties in the European Union and beyond. Those parties are generally united by tough stances against immigrants, support for what they call “traditional” values in […]

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Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Militants Wanted for Deadly Attack

Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Militants Wanted for Deadly Attack

Israel’s military on Thursday pressed ahead with its offensive in and around Jenin, a city known as a center of militant opposition to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, killing two men in a nearby village who were wanted for the murder of three Israelis. The men, identified on Thursday as Mohamad Nazzal and […]

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Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War

Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War

The war of attrition between Russia and Ukraine is killing soldiers at a pace unseen in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian artillery fire, explosive drones and mines are killing Russian troops, as they repeatedly charge across the no-man’s land. As Ukrainian positions are exposed, they are suffering heavy casualties inflicted from afar by Russian […]

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Clinton Bailey, American-Israeli Who Preserved Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88

Clinton Bailey, American-Israeli Who Preserved Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88

Clinton Bailey, an American-Israeli academic whose research and documentation of the ancient traditions of the nomadic Bedouin tribes of the Middle East helped preserve a vanishing culture for posterity, died on Jan. 5 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 88. The cause was heart failure, his son Michael said. A native of Buffalo, Dr. […]

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Rebels Backed by Rwanda Close In on Major City in Congo

Rebels Backed by Rwanda Close In on Major City in Congo

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have surrounded the eastern city of Goma, in one of the sharpest escalations in years of a conflict that has pitted the Central African country against its neighbor Rwanda. On Thursday morning, rebels from the Rwanda-backed M23 group captured Saké, forcing Congolese forces to quickly retreat, according to […]

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