The last functioning hospital has been bombed 30+ times. Between 30-40 severely malnourished children arrive every day. There’s nothing to give them but animal feed. Civilians trapped in El Fasher face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay, and raped or killed if they flee.

“Our children are the future of this country,” said Olha, 39, a combat medic in eastern Ukraine who gave birth to a girl in May. “We have to protect our children. And we have to liberate the country for their future.”

While many militaries remove pregnant soldiers from combat zones, Ukrainian women serve until their 7th month. That's in a military that is ill-equipped to support them — from uniforms to a lack of prenatal care — amid the other challenges of fighting the war. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...

Sudan suffers from a neglect and indifference that seems to reflect the new shape of global politics, @ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Inside a Houthi attack on a passing cargo ship www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Read this. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

On the anniversary of D-Day, resharing this conversation thread with my father about his experience 81 years ago. So glad I’ll be seeing him very soon (ice cream is already stocked). #DDay81 x.com/cassvinograd...

Russian courts are flooded with claims to declare a person missing or dead—and most of them are the result of the war with Ukraine. The first five months of 2025 alrady saw more clames than the record-breaking 2024, Mediazona reveals: en.zona.media/article/2025...

See the Countries Under Trump’s New Travel Ban www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

President Trump signed a travel ban on 12 countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East. Full story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

Read this.

A draft White House executive order proposes a drastic restructuring of the State Department, including eliminating almost all of its Africa operations and shutting down embassies and consulates across the continent, @ewong.bsky.social reports www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Read this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

As Ukraine grapples with a war raging on its eastern front and Russian attacks on its cities, one lawmaker is working on something that he says could help the nation in several ways: legalizing porn.

Amid all the talk of cease-fire negotiations, the war is still very much ongoing. Hope you'll read this dispatch from Sloviansk — a Ukrainian town long in Russia's crosshairs.

“Trump has maintained that Putin has sent “strong signals” that he is ready for peace. However, since the two men spoke on Feb. 12, Russia’s bombardment of Ukrainian infrastructure and towns and cities from the front has only intensified. More than 90 civilians have been killed since then.”

"The suspension of intelligence sharing to Ukraine is a major concession to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has said that U.S. involvement in weapons targeting has made Washington a virtual combatant of the war." www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

Mohammad Javad Zarif, the former Iranian foreign minister who was key to the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, has tendered his resignation. Zarif had served as VP and long been a target of hard-liners within Iran's theocracy. apnews.com/article/iran...

“We are at a crossroads in history,” Starmer said after the meeting. “Europe must do the heavy lifting.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/w...

“Today, I was not ashamed of my president and my country. I am not sure that the Americans can say the same,” said Vitaly Deinega. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/w...

European leaders are putting out messages of solidarity with Zelensky after the Oval Office incident.

"Trump is recalibrating America’s place in the world... positioning the U.S. in the camp of the globe’s chief rogue states in opposition to the countries that have been America’s best friends since World War II or before," @peterbakernyt.bsky.social writes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

"Experts can't recall a precedent for the US, or any other country, extracting cash or resources from its own allies during a time of war...Trump’s transactional diplomacy sends a msg to allies that the US can't be trusted to help its friends or honor its obligations" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

“We are trying not to give this war to our children,” he said. “Maybe his violin will be his weapon.”

Foreign leaders visit Ukraine to show their support on war’s third anniversary apnews.com/article/russ...

President Trump is rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, @peterbakernyt.bsky.social writes. "Trump’s revisionism sets the stage for a geopolitical about-face unlike any in generations." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

They stand in a small crowd outside the large metal gate, tense and waiting in the dark. Most look weighed down, both by stress and by overstuffed plastic bags — all for men who won't be coming home anytime soon.

The mass removal of thousands of staffers would doom billions of dollars in projects in some 120 countries, including security assistance to partners such as Ukraine as well as development work for clean water, job training and education, including for schoolgirls under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

"The Trump administration said it is pulling almost all USAID workers off the job and out of the field worldwide, moving to all but end a six-decade mission to shore up American security by fighting starvation, funding education and working to end epidemics." apnews.com/article/trum...

Russia attacked Kyiv this morning with ballistic missiles, killing at least three people.

Russia bombed the city of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens in a brazen daytime attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/w...

The United States has declared that a genocide took place in Sudan, drawing fresh attention to the scale of atrocities in Africa’s largest war www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...

“We are dying from fear,” she said. “It’s as though our hearts are in our hands.”

"The people they were searching for were smiling, with cheeks flush with life and muscle on their bones. Now, as they stood in the morgue’s courtyard, their memories were being overwritten by the images of ghostly corpses."

The road to Damascus is littered with relics of Assad's rule

Assad’s fall was swift & unexpected, stunning a world that had come to accept his survival. But with hindsight it wasn’t so surprising. He miscalculated, refused to compromise and relied solely on brute force to survive (plus Russia & Iran) www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Government soldiers put up little resistance when the rebels stormed Damascus, video shows.

People cheered, honked their horns and set off fireworks as they inched toward the border crossing. Men jumped on top of cars to shout curses at Assad. Others hung out of car windows, waving the flag of the Syrian opposition and holding fingers up in a V for victory. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/w...

No amount of euphoria, no wellspring of hope, could make Syrians forget all they had lost.

As Syria’s notorious prisons empty, families search for the missing www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Syria: Rebel's Military Operations Management: Our forces have begun entering the capital, Damascus. syria.liveuamap.com/en/2024/8-de...

Three years of pressure from an unprecedented sanctions campaign has weakened the Kremlin’s war machine. But Russia still manages to obtain many critical Western weapons parts with help from covert operatives and criminal gangs.

Syrian rebels stormed into the city of Hama today as government forces withdrew, another stunning setback for President Bashar al-Assad. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/w...

“There was an indescribable fear and rage, and the feeling that we cannot lose this time,” he said. “Back then, I was too young to fight.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/w...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared an “emergency martial law,” accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities. apnews.com/article/sout...

The massacre of West African soldiers by French colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in secrecy. Senegal’s new government is demanding answers. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...

The road heading south from Beirut was packed with bumper-to-bumper traffic, as displaced people started making their way home on the morning the cease-fire took effect. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, they have largely destroyed Afghanistan’s media landscape, creating such a climate of fear that Afghan journalists cannot genuinely investigate or report.

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and for Israel's former defense minister, Yoav Gallant "for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024." www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

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