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Over the past week, President Trump claimed he would make a decision about Iran in “two weeks” and repeatedly pressed it to come to the negotiating table. But the swiftness of the attack on Saturday night suggests that plans were underway after Israel began its bombing campaign against Iran a little more than a week…
Massacres have spread across once-quiet towns on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, in the deadliest outbreak of sectarian violence since rebels toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Christina Goldbaum, The New York Times’s bureau chief in Syria, traveled to the area to get a sense of who was responsible.
Rebels launched sweeping assaults against the forces of President Bashar al-Assad in northwestern Syria, taking control of large portions of territory, including much of the city of Aleppo. Carlotta Gall, a senior correspondent for The New York Times, explains how events beyond Syria’s borders lit the fuse for renewed fighting.
