HASAKAH, Syria—In a wing of the notorious Al Sina prison in northeastern Syria, where some of the world’s most dangerous inmates are held, guards wearing balaclavas stood along…
Read more ISIS Prisons and Camps Are Festering in a Fragile Syria as Aid Peters OutNAROK, Kenya—Leaders of the Maasai ethnic group are seeking a court order to demolish a new Ritz-Carlton luxury safari camp they say blocks a key route of the…
Read more Maasai Sue Marriott Over Ritz-Carlton Safari CampESTER, Alaska—At a mining site here, Rod Blakestad cracked open a shiny rock with his pick. He found quartz, a sign that the rock may contain gold. But…
Read more Alaska’s New Mining Rush Chases Something More Coveted Than GoldPORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago—No leader in the Caribbean has embraced the Trump administration’s forceful new military presence in the region like the prime minister of Trinidad…
Read more One Caribbean Leader Is Going All-Out for Trump Against VenezuelaNAGOYA, Japan—The tourists who crowd the bullet trains from Tokyo tend not to disembark at Nagoya as they speed along the so-called Golden Route linking the Japanese capital…
Read more Japan Is Overrun With Tourists. This City Wants More.Tal Hartuv was at home in northern Israel on the afternoon of Oct. 11 when she saw the list of Palestinian prisoners slated for release as part of…
Read more Victims of Palestinian Attacks Say Prisoner Releases Will Lead to More ViolenceBy Kejal Vyas / Photography by Christian Monterrosa for WSJ LAS CUEVAS, Trinidad and Tobago—Fear is rippling through this Caribbean island nation off the coast of Venezuela. Fishermen…
Read more Fear Grips a Caribbean Nation in the Shadow of U.S. Boat StrikesThe underground wealth beneath the Arctic city of Kiruna fuels Sweden’s economy and is a central cog in one of Europe’s core defense industries. It has also, quite…
Read more It Sits on a Vast Haul of Mineral Wealth. Now This Arctic City Must Be Moved.GURUGRAM, India—When the Trump Organization in April announced another luxury real-estate project in India, Eric Trump gave a shout out to his local partners for helping accelerate the…
Read more Trump Organization Expands in India, Where Many of Its Partners Face AccusationsWYRYKI, Poland—After suspected Russian drones violated NATO airspace in recent weeks, closing airports and rattling citizens, European militaries and governments find themselves in a new era of conflict…
Read more Can Shotguns, Spy Planes and Lasers Protect Europe From the Next Drone Incursion?NIR OZ, Israel—Inside the bomb shelter of a small house in this kibbutz near the Gaza border, a heart is scrawled on the wall around the letters “AA,”…
Read more Frozen in Time Since Hamas Attacked, a Kibbutz Awaits Hostages Living and DeadBy Thomas Grove and Karolina Jeznach | Photography by Maciek Nabrdalik for WSJ WARSAW—For more than a decade, Poland has prepared for the worst-case scenario: becoming the front…
Read more As Russian Aggression Turns West, Poland Says It’s ReadyTOKYO—When Moeko Nishimura was preparing for the birth of her second child last year, she dreaded a rerun of the intense pain and slow recovery she experienced when…
Read more To Tackle a Baby Shortage, Tokyo Tries Easing the Pain of ChildbirthBy Oksana Grytsenko and Jane Lytvynenko | Photography by Emanuele Satolli for WSJ MYKOLAIV, Ukraine—Yaroslav Pavlivskiy waved his hands as he sprang from his car, pleading for mercy…
Read more Russian Drones Turn the Streets of Kherson Into a Civilian Kill ZoneThe high north is dreaded for its bone-chilling winters. Even worse, say soldiers there, is the warmer season, when insects infest marshes that flood overnight. Sune Engel Rasmussen…
Read more How Arctic Soldiers Train for What They Fear Most: Warm WeatherNAIROBI, Kenya—The Kenyan government is using special antiterrorism courts—established with U.S. money to combat al Qaeda—to threaten political dissidents with decades in prison. Prosecutors have charged 75 Kenyans…
Read more Kenya Uses U.S.-Funded Antiterrorism Courts for Political CrackdownMany Americans dream of saving $1 million for retirement. Most fall far short of that. The typical family’s 401(k) and IRA-type accounts come to less than half that…
Read more Here’s What Retirement With Less Than $1 Million Looks Like in AmericaNASSAU, Bahamas—Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32 billion crypto-trading empire collapsed in an incandescent bankruptcy last week, prompting irate customers, crypto acolytes and Silicon Valley bigwigs to ask how something that…
Read more They Lived Together, Worked Together and Lost Billions Together: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Doomed FTX Empire
