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A Syrian rebel fighter sits outside the arrivals gate of the airport in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. Syrian rebels from the group HTS captured Aleppo, the second largest city in Syria, as part of a lightning offensive in recent days. The rebels caught the Syrian military off-guard, and at a time when Syria's allies, Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, were pre-occupied with other conflicts.

The Gaza war has shaken up the Mideast. Now Syria's war has reignited

Rebels have rekindled Syria's war with a lightning offensive that seemed to come from nowhere. But multiple upheavals, beginning with the Gaza war last year, have spread conflict across the region.

A former employee of Afghanistan's Defense Ministry walks in his neighborhood with his youngest daughter on Jan. 21, in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Afghans in Pakistan awaiting U.S. resettlement are stuck in a treacherous limbo

The Trump administration has halted the U.S. refugee program, Pakistan is taking steps to force Afghans out — and their lives may be at risk if they return to their own country.

State Assembly races explainer

Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake with KPBS' Nov. 5, 2024 election guide for California State Assembly races.

Smoke from a forest fire rises above the trees in Evesham, N.J. on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, when firefighters said conditions were the driest in New Jersey in nearly 120 years.

Air quality warnings in New York and New Jersey as parks worker dies fighting fire

A New York parks employee died battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have prompted air quality warnings in both states, authorities said Sunday.

Buildings at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. campus in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on July 16.

Here's why Taiwan is watching the U.S. election closely

Security and semiconductors are among Taiwan's priorities, as the island considers the presidential candidates' policies and possible impacts on the island, which China repeatedly threatens to invade.

Louvre visitors in front of The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese in June 2024. The painting is among several masterworks that may soon cease to play "second fiddle'" to the Mona Lisa.

Mona Lisa's roommates may be glad she's moving out

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.

New York Police community affairs officers enter the HI New York City Hostel on Thursday, where police say the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson may have stayed.

UnitedHealthcare CEO's shooter likely got on a bus and left New York City, police say

Authorities in New York City said the gunman took a taxi to the George Washington Bridge Bus Station. The FBI said it was assisting the NYPD in the investigation and offering a reward up to $50,000.

Two 6-foot tall chairs displayed at theU.S. Mexican border represent loss due to overdoses.

Advocates make a call for binational action on International Overdose Awareness Day

Advocates say the opioid overdose crisis is a binational issue requiring joint action from the U.S. and Mexico.

Flames consume a building as the Park Fire tears through the Cohasset community in Butte County, Calif., on Thursday.

Lightning and a burning car pushed into a gully are blamed for wildfires in the West

As evacuations continued in California, some Oregon residents were cleared to return home after a storm dropped welcome rain but also potentially dangerous lightning on the biggest blaze in the U.S.

The band Mannequin Pussy is seen in an undated promotional image.

Our top picks for popular music in San Diego this season: garage rock, a country crooner, a sonic fusion of Arabic and Latin American music, and a theatrical metal show.

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