January 2025

A man who pledged allegiance to the terrorist group carried out a deadly attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.

Christian converts in Kosovo, where the vast majority of people are Muslim, hope to revive a pre-Islamic past they see as a key to their European identity.

Even quaint corners of the country are seeing a rise in drug violence and crime. Just ask the mayor of Morlaix, which has a population of about 15,000.

In pushing back against President-elect Donald J. Trump’s plan, President Xiomara Castro threatened that a base hosting U.S. troops could “lose all reason to exist in Honduras.”

A standoff between the impeached president’s security team and officials seeking to detain him was echoed on the streets outside the presidential residence.

Blocked by bodyguards in an hourslong standoff, officials retreated without serving a court warrant to hold President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning on insurrection charges.

Germany and France’s top diplomats went to Damascus on behalf on the European Union. It’s the first such trip in years, and part of a flurry of Western outreach.

An eight-story commercial complex caught fire south of the nation’s capital, fire officials said.

In a deal with Islamist parties, Pakistan is abandoning a requirement that religious seminaries, long seen by Western officials as a potential threat, register with the government.

The two Mideast powerhouses have been trying to block the rise of Islamist groups in the region for two decades. The rebel takeover in Damascus will test that approach.