
A large Syrian camp for ISIS families faces an uncertain fate after a security handover
Security at the biggest ISIS detention camp in Syria has collapsed as Syrian Kurds withdraw to face advancing government forces.
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Security at the biggest ISIS detention camp in Syria has collapsed as Syrian Kurds withdraw to face advancing government forces.

Prosecutors are reviewing dozens more suspected deaths linked to a former palliative care nurse.

Opposition parties are slamming the brakes on billions in defense funding as the China escalates military pressure.
At least 11 Palestinians, including two children and three journalists, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, with six others injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

The retreat of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the north-east marks the biggest change of control in Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

European leaders hold an emergency summit on a possible U.S.-Greenland deal. And, the Supreme Court weighs whether the president can fire Fed governors.

European leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday night for an emergency meeting on tensions with the U.S. over Greenland and President Trump’s tariff threats.

NPR’s A Martinez speaks with Alan Leventhal, a former U.S. ambassador to Denmark, about developments following President Trump’s speech in Davos.

Rafael Tudares was arrested after his father-in-law, Edmundo González, ran against Nicolás Maduro in the election.

The president has backed off his threat to take Greenland by force. But his highly inflammatory remarks in Switzerland rattled U.S. allies and threatened to tear down the pillars of the world order.

Weeks into an internet blackout in Iran, NPR speaks to a protester who is still online and a U.S.-based activist who is trying to get more Starlink terminals into the country to get more people online.

President Trump says he won’t take Greenland by force, but he delivered provocative statements that have threatened to tear down the pillars of the world order constructed by the U.S. 80 years ago.

The U.S.’s break from the World Health Organization is almost finalized. But the details of the breakup are complicated – as are the post-divorce dynamics.
With Iran still largely under an internet blackout after weeks of unrest, eyewitness testimony is key for understanding how the events unfolded.

The operator says reactor remains “stable” and has no “radioactive impact outside”.

Residents have been told to stay indoors and avoid the area of the shooting.
Venezuela’s interim president will soon visit the US, a senior US official said, further signaling President Donald Trump’s willingness to embrace the oil-rich country’s new leader.

Israeli forces on Wednesday killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two boys, three journalists and a woman, hospitals said, on one of the enclave ‘s deadliest days since the ceasefire took effect.
US President Donald Trump abruptly stepped back from threats to impose tariffs as leverage to seize Greenland, ruled out the use of force, and suggested a deal was in sight to end a dispute over the Danish territory that risked the deepest rupture in transatlantic relations in decades.

Several people are missing after a landslide at campsite in the New Zealand tourist hotspot of Mount Maunganui.

Some people in Britain are asking what it would look like for their government to sever security and intelligence ties with its closest ally, the U.S.