Ruqia Haidari was the baby of the family. The youngest of five children, she was born in Afghanistan in 1999, just a month before her father, a fruit and vegetable seller, was killed by the Taliban. So desperate was her mother to protect her children that she fled with the…
Israeli airstrikes on two school buildings in the north of Gaza City killed 17 Palestinians, most of them children,…
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Ukraine’s military has claimed it sank a Russian submarine in a port in Crimea, in what would be another major…
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrates what he sees as major victories against Hamas and Hezbollah this week, the…
The statement that upended Venezuela came 24 hours after polls closed in the presidential election. With the reassuring tone…
The pounding of sustained gunfire and artillery had rattled Khin Swe’s home in northeastern Myanmar for days, with shelling…
The children of two Russian intelligence agents, who were among the detainees released as part of a historic prisoner…