China’s Software Stalked Uighurs Earlier and More Widely, Researchers Learn
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Before the Chinese police hung high-powered surveillance cameras and locked up ethnic minorities by the hundreds of thousands in China’s western region...
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African nations seek UN inquiry into US racism, ‘police brutality’
African countries are lobbying to set up a U.N. inquiry into “systemic racism” and “police brutality” in the United States and elsewhere, aiming to defend...
Victor in Syria’s War, Bashar al-Assad Faces Economic Meltdown
BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad, who has mostly won Syria’s civil war, now faces an acute economic crisis that has impoverished his people, brought...
Trump Made Inaccurate Claims About the Military During His West Point Speech
President Trump oversold his administration’s military record in a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Saturday. Here’s a fact-check...
Erdogan and Trump Form New Bond as Interests Align
ISTANBUL — Relations between President Trump and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, were in the worst state anyone could remember 10 months ago, veering...
Syria’s Idlib Province, Wrecked by War. Readies for Coronavirus Battle
An activist who has supported the democracy protests against Syria’s authoritarian president since they began nine years ago knows a thing or two about battling...
His Family Fled Syria. He Didn’t Cry Until He Heard About His Sisters.
This is the third dispatch from a project following a family of five who fled Syria in 2015 and are now rebuilding their lives spread...
Reddit and Twitter join the fight against US demands for visa applicants’ online handles
Reddit and Twitter have filed supporting evidence in a lawsuit against the US government, which challenges the requirement that nearly all visa applicants submit their...
Western Countries Leave Children of ISIS in Syrian Camps
BEIRUT, Lebanon — As about 900 children languish in fetid, disease-ridden detainment camps in northeastern Syria, the Western states their parents hail from have insisted...
ISIS Prisoners Threaten U.S. Mission in Northeastern Syria
WASHINGTON — A year after American-backed forces seized the last remnant of territory under Islamic State rule in Syria, some 10,000 captured ISIS fighters in...