Listening to the wail of air-raid sirens, a mother and her 9-year-old daughter raced through the Ukrainian capital’s early morning darkness on Thursday to a clinic, where a bomb shelter promised escape from another Russian missile barrage. But the clinic was locked, the authorities said. After explosions roared, the woman and her daughter were found […]
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A day after a drone strike on Moscow, Kremlin officials jumped on the refusal of Ukrainian allies to denounce the attack as proof that Russia’s real war was with the West. The Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said Russia “would have preferred to hear at least some words of condemnation” from Western capitals. “We will […]
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As the Khoswan family slept, the Israeli military dropped three GBU-39 bombs into their sixth-floor apartment. One of the bombs exploded just outside the parents’ bedroom, leaving the apartment looking as if a tornado had swept through, killing three family members. But they were not the stated target of the attack earlier this month. The […]
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You are either with us or against us. This dictum has sorted humans into opposing camps for centuries. Cicero is said to have spoken these words to Julius Caesar. Political leaders across the globe still use them to rally support. With great-power tensions rising and wars raging, the idea of neutrality these days may seem […]
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Even in a city where people have adapted the routines of ordinary life to wartime, the spectacle unfolding overhead in Kyiv on Monday was a reminder that while the fighting has been concentrated hundred of miles east, the Ukrainian capital still has a Russian bull’s-eye on it. Ballistic missiles began roaring in shortly after 11 […]
Read More Even in a city where people have adapted the routines of ordinary life to wartime, the spectacle unfolding overhead in Kyiv on Monday was a reminder that while the fighting has been concentrated hundred of miles east, the Ukrainian capital still has a Russian bull’s-eye on it. Ballistic missiles began roaring in shortly after 11 […]
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And how might we consider the long-term psychological or spiritual trauma that those who experience war so often suffer? I’m talking about those who died from substance use, excessive risk taking or the cumulative stresses of homelessness. Even if they were not killed in action, many no doubt were killed by action. Should we inscribe their […]
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KYIV, Ukraine — Explosions far behind the front lines shook Ukraine on Friday, as a Russian missile demolished part of a hospital complex and apparent Ukrainian strikes hit Russian-occupied cities, in their escalating, long-range aerial war. The attack on a medical center in the central city of Dnipro killed at least two people, left three […]
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CARTAGENA, Colombia — For a champion of peace, Leyner Palacios faces a lot death threats. The latest menacing message came in February, when Mr. Palacios, 47, was warned he had 12 hours to leave the region where he was born on Colombia’s Pacific Coast, and to “never come back.” The last time he had received […]
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In the adobe house she built with her husband in a small village in Peru, Antonia Huillca pulled out a stack of documents that once represented a glimmer of hope. They were part of an investigation into the death of her husband, Quintino Cereceda, who left one morning in 2016 to join a protest against […]
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Even for those who witnessed the battle for Bakhmut, the longest and likely the deadliest clash of the war in Ukraine, words often failed. Soldiers who fought in the shell-racked city strained to articulate the carnage. The reek of the trenches around the city and the unceasing howl of shellfire, they said, recalled the Battle […]
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President Biden was 2 years old when the nuclear era opened with a blast of devastation unlike any the world had ever seen. Seventy-eight years later, he came on Friday to ground zero of the first atomic bomb used in warfare to pay tribute to the dead. Mr. Biden and other world leaders met privately […]
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Thousands of Sudanese refugees watched as the first emergency aid workers reached a village in Chad, days after escaping from their embattled country. Mothers tended to toddlers, while men listed their most urgent needs — water, vaccines, tarps for the looming rainy season. The fighting that erupted in Sudan’s capital last month has ricocheted far beyond the […]
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Three people, including a shooter, were killed in Farmington, N.M., on Monday in an encounter that also left two police officers and multiple civilians injured, the authorities said. The Farmington Police Department said that it had responded to an active shooter situation on Monday and that multiple officers were involved “in an officer-involved shooting” but […]
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The road to Kherson is long, straight and empty. Vacant fields rise from either side. Entering town from the west, you pass the ATB supermarket, one of the mainstays of the city’s shopping. It was blown up a few weeks ago, in the middle of the day, with shoppers inside. After that lie more crushed buildings, […]
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Thousands of people have descended on a port city in eastern Sudan in recent days, fleeing the violence in the capital and trying to secure their escape aboard vessels heading over the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia. The coastal city of Port Sudan — the country’s biggest seaport — has been transformed into a hub […]
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Dmytro raced to the room where two of his children had been sleeping, after a Russian missile thundered into his apartment building in Uman, Ukraine, before dawn on Friday. He forced the door open and stared into oblivion. “There was no room behind the door. Just a cloud of fire and smoke,” he said. By […]
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WASHINGTON — Amnesty International’s board has sat for months on a report critical of the group after it accused Ukrainian forces of illegally endangering civilians while fighting Russia, according to documents and a person familiar with the matter. The 18-page report, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, underscores the complexity […]
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WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible for the suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, four senior American officials said on Tuesday. The administration on Monday began calling relatives of the […]
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NAIROBI, Kenya — It began with a helicopter evacuation of American diplomats from Sudan’s besieged capital city just after midnight Sunday, then turned into a full-fledged exodus of foreign officials and citizens of other nations as the battle raged around them. At the United States Embassy in Khartoum, an elite team of Navy SEALs ushered up […]
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Khartoum has been wracked with violence for nearly a week. At least 413 people have been killed and millions trapped without food, water or electricity, while a former Janjaweed militia — the Rapid Support Forces led by Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, known as Hemeti — battles the army for control of Sudan’s capital. After violence […]
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A large market for food and other supplies serving a camp for displaced people was partly damaged during a fire on Wednesday, reflecting the dangerous toll recent fighting has taken on Sudan’s most vulnerable citizens. The extent of the destruction was evident in satellite imagery and social media videos analyzed by The New York Times, […]
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Having those frameworks in mind will be useful as you read “Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People’s Revolution,” by Willow Berridge, Justin Lynch, Raga Makawi, and Alex de Waal, which tells the story of the 2019 uprising that Sudan’s ousted longtime dictator, Omar al-Bashir. The book details the historical events that […]
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That usually means shoring up support among key players ahead of time, then swiftly taking action to consolidate power before the opposing forces can put on a credible defense. Typical actions include seizing the presidential palace and arresting civilian leaders, taking control over major communications channels like state TV and radio stations (and in more […]
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Street battles and rocket strikes deepened the chaos across Sudan on Tuesday as a cease-fire between the country’s two warring generals fizzled, paralyzing the capital and trapping civilians in their homes for fear of the crossfire. Parents and children, doctors and students, officials and high-profile diplomats all have come under attack since the fighting broke […]
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NAIROBI, Kenya — As two rival generals, each with his own army, grappled for power in Sudan on Monday, even hospitals trying to tend to the swelling numbers of wounded were no longer havens. At one overwhelmed medical center, the morning began with shelling. Then, members of a paramilitary force barged inside, ordered newborns and […]
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudan’s nightmare scenario is coming to pass. Fighter jets screamed over Khartoum, the capital, on Sunday, firing rockets into a city of millions. Artillery barrages slammed into the military headquarters, reducing it to a tower of flames. Civilian planes were bombed at the city’s airport, where terrified passengers cowered on the terminal floors. […]
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Chaos engulfed Sudan on Saturday as forces led by two rival generals engaged in ferocious battles for the capital, Khartoum, and other parts of the country, with both sides fighting for control of the presidential palace, the main airport and other key sites. The eruption of violence dashed hopes that military leaders would cede power […]
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Myanmar’s military regime continued its relentless campaign of airstrikes on Tuesday by bombing a large gathering in rebel-held territory, killing at least 100 people in the junta’s deadliest attack since seizing power in a coup more than two years ago. At least 30 children were among the dead in the attack in Sagaing Region, said […]
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Gustavo Ángel Suárez Castillo, an American citizen from San Antonio, piled six friends, including two brothers, into his white pickup truck with Texas plates just before dawn, having spent the night celebrating the news that he was going to be a father. Suddenly, four vehicles filled with armed men began chasing and firing at them. The […]
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Gustavo Ángel Suárez Castillo, un ciudadano estadounidense de San Antonio, transportaba a seis amigos, incluidos dos hermanos, en su camioneta blanca con placas de Texas justo antes del amanecer, tras haber pasado la noche celebrando la noticia de que iba a ser padre. De repente, cuatro vehículos repletos de hombres armados comenzaron a perseguirlos y […]
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