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Sunday, August 7, 2016

Middle East

Talks to End War in Yemen Are Suspended

By ROD NORDLAND

The suspension of negotiations after more than three months leaves a shaky cease-fire in doubt and threatens to deepen a humanitarian crisis.

Syrian government forces last month after taking control of a previously rebel-held district on the northwest outskirts of Aleppo.

Military Success in Syria Gives Putin Upper Hand in U.S. Proxy War

By MARK MAZZETTI, ANNE BARNARD and ERIC SCHMITT

Russia has not only avoided a quagmire in Syria, its successes on the battlefield against C.I.A.-backed rebels have given it new leverage in the Middle East.

Ahmad Barro, left, Ahmad al-Othman and Ahmad Khalifa last month in Yangju, South Korea. The men, all from Syria, expressed frustration as they talked about family members left in Aleppo.

Syrians Seeking Asylum in South Korea Find Only a Cold Shoulder

By CHOE SANG-HUN

Wary of Muslim immigrants after attacks in Europe, South Korea lets 670 Syrians stay only on annual visas, limiting their ability to find jobs and barring them from benefits.

Syrian Girl Born Without an Eye Undergoes Surgery in Barcelona

By RAPHAEL MINDER

Sham Aldaher will probably be able to leave the hospital by early next week, although more procedures will be required for her to receive a prosthetic, officials said.

Madiha Algothany and her husband, Mahmoud al-Rifai, and one of their children in Baltimore.

U.S. Could Exceed Goal of Accepting 10,000 Syrian Refugees

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

After a slow start and amid fierce political controversy, the Obama administration said on Friday that 8,000 Syrian refugees had arrived since October.

Ahmed H. Zewail, left, in 1999 after being honored by President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt for winning the Nobel Prize.

Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 70

By KENNETH CHANG

Dr. Zewail, a naturalized American citizen, was the first Arab to win a Nobel in any of the sciences, and he championed science in Egypt and the Middle East.

Mohammad El Halabi — an employee of World Vision, a Christian aid organization — at his indictment on Thursday on charges of funneling about $43 million in charity funds to Hamas.

Israel Charges Aid Group’s Gaza Branch Manager With Funneling Funds to Hamas

By ISABEL KERSHNER and DIAA HADID

Mohammad El Halabi, of World Vision’s Gaza branch, was said to have moved about $43 million over the past six years to the militant group’s military wing.

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Photographer's Notebook

At the Front in a Scarred Falluja

By BRYAN DENTON

Bryan Denton, a photographer who works for The New York Times and is based in Beirut, Lebanon, gives his account of covering Iraqi forces’ recapture of Falluja from the Islamic State.

Chemical Weapons in Iraq: Revealing the Pentagon’s Long-Held Secrets

Produced by TROY GRIGGS and SHREEYA SINHA
Staff Sgt. James F. Burns in Baghdad in 2004.
Mohammed Uraibi/Associated Press

Staff Sgt. James F. Burns in Baghdad in 2004.

The Times investigated secret casualties of Iraq’s abandoned chemical weapons and the Pentagon’s response, including follow-up care for those exposed.

At War

At War
Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era.

August 5, 2016

Two Years and $15 Billion Spent and Veterans’ Waits for Health Care Are Longer

A breakdown of the changes that were required under the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014, and how some have faltered.

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No Easy Target: U.S. and Russia Take On Nusra Front Fighters in Syria
By SARAH ALMUKHTAR and TIM WALLACE

The Nusra Front poses a challenge, in part because it frequently works in coordination with other rebel groups, making differentiation difficult.

Saudi women standing on the opposite side of the hall from the men at the Amex Luxury Expo in Riyadh in March.
أحد رجال 'الهيئة' يعبر عن شكوكه... ويدفع الثمن غاليًا
بقلم بين هبارد

An Arabic language translation of an article about a longtime morals enforcer in Saudi Arabia who began to question the rules of the hyper-conservative strain of Islam practiced in the kingdom.

From Opinion
Op-Ed | Shmuel Rosner
Shmuel Rosner

How Israel’s Modern-Orthodox Jews Came Out of the Closet

By SHMUEL ROSNER

A rabbi thought he was taking a stand against advances in L.G.B.T. rights. But he proved only how open our minds have become.

Editorial

Turkey’s New Anti-Americanism

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

In accusing the United States of aiding a coup attempt, the Turkish president has made tensions between the NATO allies worse.

From the Magazine
Feature
Henry Molaison’s brain in a lab at the University of California, San Diego. Photograph taken in 2009.

The Brain That Couldn’t Remember

By LUKE DITTRICH

The untold story of the fight over the legacy of “H.M.” — the patient who revolutionized the science of memory.

Feature
Yasuo Takamatsu near the Takenoura port after a practice dive.

‘I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking’

By JENNIFER PERCY

Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Japan, a husband still searches the sea for his wife, joined by a father hoping to find his daughter.

News From A.P. and Reuters »
Intense Fighting as Syrian Rebels Break Through Aleppo Siege
Yemen's Hadi Launches Military Operation East of Sanaa, Peace Talks End
Air Strike on Syrian Hospital Kills 10-Observatory
UN's Yemen Envoy Announces One-Month Recess for Peace Talks

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