Air quality in wildfire-stricken Los Angeles improved on Thursday from hazardous peaks hit earlier this month, as tiny soot particles that can penetrate the lungs and brain dropped to moderate levels,

Firefighters trying to make progress against Los Angeles wildfires as officials warn of strong winds returning; German Foreign Minister says sanctions against Syrian officials should remain in place;

Firefighters made some progress to contain the multiple wildfires across the city on Sunday as more desert winds arrived. The blazes have killed at least 16 people, and Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County said that the number of missing increased by the hour. Follow our live coverage here.

Syria’s new government has strongly condemned Israel’s incursions into a U.N.-monitored buffer zone, urging the international community to pressure Israel into withdrawing.

Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on her relationship with the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on his cell wall — an expression of pain and love amid his torment.

Transition in America Episode 179 – January 16, 2025 Show Open: Unidentified Narrator: This week on The Inside Story: Wildfires rage across Southern California. And President Biden gives his farewell

The man who is suspected of committing the New Years Day vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans searched online for information about the Christmas market car-ramming attack in Germany, just hours before carrying out his own attack on Bourbon Street, according to the FBI.

Brett Holmgren got woken up early on New Year’s Day by alerts that a driver had plowed into a crowd of revelers in New Orleans. The rampage, which killed 14 people, was

WASHINGTON — After years of debate, the Biden administration has notified Congress that it will remove Cuba from the U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism, a label given the island nation in the last days of the previous Trump presidency.

In August 2015, with Syria devastated by war, Yusra Mardini and her sister faced an impossible choice—leave everything behind in their hometown of Damascus..

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