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Osama al-Raqab, 5, whose mother says his cystic fibrosis has worsened since the start of the war due to the lack of meat, fish and enzyme tablets to help him digest food, is being treated at the malnutrition clinic in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, Gaza, on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Hunger and malnutrition are rising across Gaza as Israel’s blockade leaves parents with few options

May 3, 2025 at 12:38 p.m.

Some 3,600 children were admitted and treated for acute malnutrition in the past month, a figure that is likely rising.

Palestinians walk amid the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive at Al-Shati camp, Gaza City, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians protest Hamas in a rare public show of dissent in Gaza

March 26, 2025 at 8:48 a.m.

Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests in the Gaza Strip, witnesses said Wednesday, in a rare show of public anger against the group that has long repressed dissent and...

The map above locates coastal cities in Syria where clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad have killed more than 70 people. (AP Graphic)

2 days of clashes and revenge killings in Syria leave more than 1,000 people dead

March 8, 2025 at 7:23 p.m.

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000,...

People walk past shops on a street in the Bab Touma neighborhood of the Old City of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

One week into a new Syria, rebels aim for normalcy and Syrians vow not to be silent again

December 15, 2024 at 8:44 a.m.

Syrian rebels, suddenly in charge, met a population bursting with emotions: excitement at new freedoms; grief over years of repression; and hopes, expectations and worries about the future.

Syrian opposition fighters get off a truck as they enter the village of Anjara, western outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Thursday Nov. 28, 2024, part of their major offensive on government-controlled areas in the country’s northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

In a shock offensive, insurgents breach Syria’s largest city for the first time since 2016

November 29, 2024 at 3:17 p.m.

Insurgents breached Syria’s largest city Friday and clashed with government forces for the first time since 2016, according to a war monitor and fighters.

FILE – Paramedics treat a man who was injured after an Israeli airstrike hit two adjacent buildings east of the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

Under fire and using old equipment, Lebanon’s rescuers struggle to respond to Israeli offensive

October 2, 2024 at 8:51 a.m.

When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency unlike anything they had ever seen.

People donate blood for those who were injured by their exploded handheld pagers, at a Red Cross center, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

What to know about the two waves of deadly explosions that hit Lebanon and Syria

September 18, 2024 at 3:40 p.m.

Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Lebanon bans the new ‘Wonder Woman’ movie

December 17, 2018 at 5:03 p.m.

Lebanese authorities banned the new "Wonder Woman" movie Wednesday hours before it was due to premiere in the capital and following a campaign against its lead actress, Gal Gadot, who...

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