The quake has turned this Turkish town of 60,000 into a mix of damaged buildings, makeshift tents, aid trucks and groups of survivors huddled around bonfires
Some survivors are being housed in temporary shelters but wondering what comes next after their houses were either destroyed or badly damaged. Rescue efforts continue despite freezing weather and constant aftershocks
The tremor has deepened the drama of a country beset by 12 years of civil war that killed half a million people and created 6.6 million refugees. Syrians were also dealing with an economic crisis, Covid and cholera
Efforts are underway to preserve the 1,500-year-old tilework that a Palestinian found near his home in a refugee camp
Two Israeli biotech entrepreneurs and two Italian chemists analyzed three 15th-century letters signed by the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Bram Stoker’s vampire tale
Increasingly isolated and autocratic, the West Bank leader is clinging to power despite 74% of the population calling for his resignation
The leader who has governed Israel the longest looks set to take up the reins of power once again, after just a year and a half in the opposition and with support from the far right
The inexorable rise of the candidate highlights the country’s rightward drift. According to polls, the Religious Zionist Party is set to become the third-largest force in the Knesset
The owner of the franchise in Israel, Joey Schwebel, hosted an event for ultranationalist leader Itamar Ben Gvir, leading to a backlash against the retailer
Prices are skyrocketing in the Israeli city, especially when it comes to housing. An apartment already costs an average of €1 million. Some 44% of Israelis will cast their votes in November with an eye to policies around the cost of living
The site, found by accident to the south of Tel Aviv, contains almost 100 ceramic and bronze artifacts and dates to the era of Pharoah Ramesses II
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he felt “shame” for having taken decades to recognize failures mistakes and to agree on compensation for the families, who will receive €28 million
Both the Israeli and Ukrainian governments have repeatedly urged them to call off their annual trip to the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, located in the center of the country, for Rosh Hashanah
Russian strikes in the Ukrainian town of Sukachi have destroyed the homes of people who were relocated after the 1986 disaster
Children are being forced into exile with their mothers, leaving behind their country, homes, schools and lives due to a conflict that they don’t understand
Tens of thousands of women and children in Ukraine have traveled to the neighboring country, as the border crossing to Poland becomes overwhelmed by the crisis sparked by the Russian offensive
Thousands are crossing into Romania every day through the border post in Siret, where emergency workers are greeting exhausted people with hot food and water
A photo of an emaciated Fikret Alic was seen around the world in 1992. He and other former prisoners are taking legal action in the wake of comments made about their plight on Serbian television
After the refugee crisis of 2015, the country is keen to show it has control of its borders in a bid to be admitted to the EU’s area of free movement
Yazidi activist Lamia Aji Bashar comes to Madrid as part of her work to raise awareness about her people’s plight
Two essays by idol of Spanish protest movement explore our search for Utopia in the past