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Supreme Court Considers Trump’s Plan to Revoke Deportation Protections

By: Ann E. Marimow —
The Trump administration wants to terminate humanitarian protections known as Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti and Syria.

A candlelight vigil in Miami in February for Haitians living under Temporary Protected Status, which the Trump administration is trying to end.

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Gallows Humor Provides Respite From Mideast Wars

By: Abdi Latif Dahir —
Arab digital creators on social media are turning out edgy material to cope with the conflicts and bring levity to a pain that often feels too raw.

Samer Moumneh, wearing a red headband, recording a new sketch in a cafe in Beirut, Lebanon, last week.

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Suicide Bomber in Syria Kills Security Officer in New Year’s Eve Attack

By: Ephrat Livni and Hussam Hammoud —
The attacker likely had links to the Islamic State and was possibly targeting a Christian church in the center of Aleppo, according to a government spokesman.

A view of Aleppo, Syria, where a suicide bomber struck on Wednesday.

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Clashing Visions of Syria’s Future Play Out in Ancient Alleys of Damascus

By: Vivian Yee， Hwaida Saad and Nanna Heitmann —
Many in the capital worry that the secular freedoms they enjoyed under the Assad regime are under threat from the new Islamist government.

A police patrol in the old city of Damascus, Syria, in April. Under the new authorities, some of Syrian society’s most religious people have suddenly come to rule over some of its most socially liberal.

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Israel Stages Rare Attack on Syrian Government Forces

By: Euan Ward —
Israel intervened in sectarian violence in Syria and attacked the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

Syrian government forces entered the predominantly Druse city of Sweida on Tuesday. Israel intervened after days of deadly sectarian clashes in the southern Sweida region.

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Skirmish in Syrian Capital Raises Fears of Expanding Violence

By: Euan Ward —
The overnight incident in Damascus appeared to have been contained, but it has heightened concerns that the violence sweeping the country’s coastal region could spread.

Members of the Syrian government’s security forces in the capital, Damascus, on Thursday.

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Syrians Demand Better Protection Amid a Spate of Kidnappings

By: Raja Abdulrahim and Kiana Hayeri —
When the new government took over, it dismissed the Assad regime police and other forces, leaving a security vacuum. Now, many residents fear going out after dark.

Members of the new Syrian government set up security checkpoints in Homs in February. Many Syrians are demanding more such controls.

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Maps: See Israel’s Moves in Syria Since al-Assad Was Toppled

By: Josh Holder and Aaron Boxerman —
Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military posts in territory formerly under Syrian control.
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In Fight for Syria, a Battle for Domination of the Middle East

By: Neil MacFarquhar —
In a region “already on fire,” analysts say, rebels’ advance toward Damascus is a barometer of the shifting power dynamics that also affect nations like Iran, Turkey, Russia and the United States.

Syrian antigovernment fighters pouring into the city of Hama on Friday.

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Syria’s Assad Regime Fights to Survive Rebel Onslaught

By: Raja Abdulrahim —
The longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is facing threats from rebellions on multiple fronts and his key ally, Iran, is paring back support.

Syrian rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad heading toward the strategic city of Homs.

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Iran Begins to Evacuate Military Officials and Personnel From Syria

By: Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman —
The withdrawals by one of President Bashar al-Assad’s key backers come amid a resurgent rebel offensive.

An antigovernment fighter covers his ears as a multi-barrel rocket launcher fires against government forces, in the northern outskirts of Syria’s west-central city of Hama on Wednesday.

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2 Russian Women Put on a Play. Then the State Came for Them.

By: Valerie Hopkins —
The prosecution of a prominent playwright and a director in Russia over their work is a chilling sign of increased repression, cultural figures say.

Yevgenia Berkovich, left, and Svetlana Petriychuk inside a courthouse in Moscow in May. The two are being tried on charges of terrorism relating to the production of their play, “Finist the Brave Falcon.”

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Terrorism in Iran Exposes a Vulnerability It Doesn’t Want to Admit

By: Farnaz Fassihi —
Even after the Islamic State took responsibility for deadly bombings, Iran’s government, facing public anger, blamed Israel.

The funeral of a victim of Wednesday’s terrorist bombing in Kerman, on Friday in Tehran.

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