February 27, 2025

A series of hostage-for-prisoner swaps agreed under the first phase of the cease-fire is complete, and no one knows how long the uneasy calm will last.

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the guerrilla Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of fighting the Turkish state.

A China-led crackdown on online fraud rescued thousands from Myanmar this month. But this massive business of grift keeps growing.

The announcement was a victory for mainstream political parties, after earlier talks involving the hard-right Freedom Party broke down.

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government.

The fresh deployment comes after North Korea suffered heavy casualties on the front lines in Russia’s war against Ukraine, the South’s spy agency says.

Debate is building over just how deep the Trump administration’s antagonism runs, and whether the real goal is to destroy the European Union.