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Aleppo's Salahuddin neighborhood was divided between opposition and government forces until rebels left in December. Now, many former residents are coming back to see what became of their homes. Others come to pick through the rubble.

‘Even the stones reek with sadness’: Here is what’s left of Aleppo

August 21, 2019 at 11:03 p.m.

Amid the rubble fields of eastern Aleppo, Ibrahim Shabelle was hawking a traditional licorice drink to shoppers, tradesmen and others frequenting a shattered but lively main drag. "Cold juice!" Shabelle...

Mexican helicopter gunship caught on camera firing on alleged cartel hideout in raids that leave 12 dead

August 21, 2019 at 10:08 p.m.

A Mexican military helicopter gunship fired on the alleged hideout of a drug kingpin in one of a pair of raids that left 12 suspects dead, including the cartel capo,...

Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos is locked in a van that is stopped in the street by protesters outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Feb. 8 in Phoenix.

Mexican government warns citizens of ‘new reality’ of life in the U.S.

August 21, 2019 at 10:08 p.m.

The much-publicized deportation of an immigrant who had been living illegally in Arizona prompted the Mexican government on Friday to urge its nationals in the United States to "take precautions"...

Luis Leon Monterrubio runs a company in Oaxaca, producing mescal, the signature liquor distilled from the maguey plant. Like other exporters to the U.S., he is worried about Donald Trump's threats to increase tariffs.

Mexican town whose chief earners are in the U.S. worries what happens if they’re sent home

August 21, 2019 at 9:31 p.m.

From her stall featuring regional delicacies — chile-infused dried grasshoppers, juicy white worms from the maguey plant and handmade chocolates, among other edible fare — 63-year-old Eufenia Hernandez issued a...

Firefighters work on a burned truck on the Guadalajara-Autlan highway.

Judge linked to some of Mexico’s highest profile cases gunned down in broad daylight

August 21, 2019 at 8:35 p.m.

The jogger trots down a narrow sidewalk, apparently oblivious to the slim man in black trailing a few yards behind. Early morning traffic passes as usual. Nothing seems amiss. As...

The freighter MN Baroque during the first crossing test at lock Agua Clara in the extended Panama Canal.

$5.4-billion expansion of Panama Canal could reshape world trade routes

August 21, 2019 at 6:54 p.m.

The colossal freighter, guided by a pair of tug boats that looked like gnats in comparison, eased toward the entrance of the Panama Canal, the storied passageway traversed more than...

A fan of El Chapo staged an April protest outside the National Palace in Mexico City. He and other demonstrators professed their support for the accused drug lord.

Bringing El Chapo to the U.S.: Secrecy, high security and swiftness

August 21, 2019 at 6:26 p.m.

Bringing Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to American soil could take years, but once the process starts, it will probably be lightning quick and as scripted as it...

This photo posted online by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan shows the Virginia driver's license found on Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, who turned himself in to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.

A young Virginian met a girl abroad, and soon was living in a place called Islamic State

June 23, 2019 at 2:38 p.m.

He met a girl, the young man explains, a conventional opening for a saga that soon veers into the realm of the sinister. An Iraqi girl. It was she who...

Syrian siblings Antoinette and Sobhi Fares remained in Homs' Old City during the two-year siege.

Homs is dead. Syria’s civil war killed it.

June 21, 2019 at 12:58 p.m.

It was oddly tranquil up there on the roof of an obliterated commercial center in the Old City of Homs, once ground zero of Syria's sanguinary conflict. A panorama of...

A bombing Oct. 10 at a train station in Ankara, Turkey's capital, killed 102 people. Three attacks trace back to about 20 young men from Adiyaman who, authorities and relatives say, were radicalized at a local tea shop.

Residents of Turkish town say warning signs were ignored as Islamic State lured their sons

June 23, 2019 at 8:22 a.m.

In the deeply conservative backwater community that yielded Turkey's most lethal terrorist cell, relatives and officials lament what they call grievous security oversights that allowed Islamic extremism to fester, resulting...

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