ON the morning of July 12, 2006 Hezbollah commandos launched a cross-border raid on an Israeli armored patrol, killing two soldiers and taking two hostages. The act would, over the next few days, escalate into the devastating 34-day conflict between (...)
"THERE was a hill near our house, totally covered in flowers, flowers like I've never seen before. We would take meat to grill and we'd bring soda, we'd build a bonfire and make tea," remembers Abu Hafez, a Syrian man in his mid-forties, as he (...)
BEIRUT — In the summer of 2014, an onslaught by Daesh forced thousands of Iraqis to flee their homes, including the small Yazidi religious sect. Yazidi men, women and children hid in the Sinjar mountains in western Iraq, surrounded by the extremist (...)
Late afternoon on Nov. 24, four French fighter jets launched from aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean. Their mission was to hit Daesh (the so-called IS) targets in Syria and Iraq, in retaliation for the group's attacks in (...)
The busy hum of Parisian nightlife was tragically shattered on Friday evening as gunshots and explosions pierced the cool evening. In a number of coordinated, simultaneous attacks on the French capital — the worst since World War II — 129 people (...)
