The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds. Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate speech. The administration would have cut financing and sh
Iraqi forces continued their weeklong assault on Monday and seized a government complex in central Ramadi. The last remaining ISIS militants left the government buildings on Monday afternoon as the Iraqi Army continued to disrupt the seven-month occupation. Related Maps and Multimedia » Related article » Source: Institute for the Study of War
The jihadist group has oil revenues, arms and organization, controls vast stretches of Syria and Iraq and aspires to statehood. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has a detailed structure that encompasses many functions and jurisdictions, according to ISIS documents seized by Iraqi forces and seen by American officials and Hashim Alhashimi, an Iraqi researcher. Many of its leaders are former offi
A wind turbine being installed in northern France. Research says the benefits of such efforts may offset the cost of subsidies.Credit...Benoit Tessier/Reuters In decades of public debate about global warming, one assumption has been accepted by virtually all factions: that tackling it would necessarily be costly. But a new report casts doubt on that idea, declaring that the necessary fixes could w
Riot police officers clashed with money changers in Tehran on Wednesday.Credit...European Pressphoto Agency TEHRAN — The first outbreak of public anger over Iran’s collapsing currency and other economic maladies jolted the heart of the capital on Wednesday, with the riot police violently clamping down on black-market money changers, hundreds of citizens marching to demand relief and merchants in t
TOKYO — The United States military sent the first batch of a sophisticated but accident-plagued new aircraft to an air base on Okinawa on Monday, going forward with its planned deployment despite unexpectedly fierce opposition by islanders and warnings that any crash could threaten the huge American military presence on the island. The first six of the MV-22 Osprey aircraft arrived at Marine Corps
Visitors at the Archaeology Museum in Istanbul with the Alexander Sarcophagus, which was dug up in Ottoman times.Credit...Ayman Oghanna for The New York Times ISTANBUL — An aggressive campaign by Turkey to reclaim antiquities it says were looted has led in recent months to the return of an ancient sphinx and many golden treasures from the region’s rich past. But it has also drawn condemnation from
Chastened King Seeks Redemption, for Spain and His Monarchy King Juan Carlos I of Spain, at a Clinton Global Initiative forum in New York recently, has come under increasing scrutiny at home.Credit...Allison Joyce/Getty Images MADRID — With Spain mired in an economic slump, many Spaniards are questioning their king, long revered for his role in bringing democracy to the nation but now being scruti
DOHUK, Iraq — Just off a main highway that stretches east of this city and slices through a moonscape of craggy hills, a few hundred Syrian Kurdish men have been training for battle, marching through scrub brush and practicing rifle drills. The men, many of them defectors from the Syrian Army living in white trailers dotting a hillside camp, are not here to join the armed uprising against Presiden
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved new guidelines for advertisements on Thursday, prohibiting those that it “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace.” The 8-to-0 vote by the authority’s board came three days after pro-Israel ads characterizing Islamist opponents of the Jewish state as being “savage” began appearing in s
JERUSALEM — An internal report prepared by Israel’s Foreign Ministry calls for an additional round of international sanctions against Iran, an Israeli official confirmed on Thursday, in what appeared to be a rare Israeli acknowledgment that there might still be time to try to stop the Iranian nuclear program by means other than military action. Details of the report were leaked to Haaretz and were
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