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About 40,000 individuals, primarily the wives, female relatives and children of male Islamic State suspects, are held in the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria. According to camp authorities, these Islamic State relatives have been celebrating the regime change in Syria, hoping it will lead to a Sunni Islamic system. Camp guards told VOA that since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, ISIS families in the camp have been attempting to escape but are being stopped. Click here for the...

Vegetation that anchored soil burned away in last month’s fires  

The president of Panama says the flight is the first of three carrying a total of about 360 people

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to discuss plans for ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict. But that was overshadowed by his address to conference attendees. Analysis with Daniel Hamilton Senior non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Also this week - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said NATO countries...

Ukraine’s reserves of critical minerals give it the potential to be a strategic supplier for the West. President Donald Trump is considering a deal to continue U.S. support for Ukraine in the war against Russia in exchange for access to its minerals. Myroslava Gongadze and Anna Chernikova report.

Amid nationwide immigration raids, a community organization in Chicago is helping undocumented migrants who say they are afraid to leave their homes for fear of being detained. Veronica Villafane narrates this report by Enrique Garcia Fuentes.

Official tells reporters that recording from Black Hawk helicopter suggests incomplete radio transmission might have left crew without an understanding of how it should shift position

Rio Grande Valley has seen sharp drop in apprehensions, but arrests were already at their lowest levels since 2019 when President Donald Trump took office

New UN report says growing number of countries are convinced terror group’s leader is trying to hide in Somalia

Mammal engulfs Adrian Simancas before letting him go

Warrant for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing pertains to his role in 2017 genocide of Rohingya Muslims

UN says recent escalation of fighting has left 350,000 without shelter

U.S. Vice President JD Vance's remarks in Munich came amid European allies' alarm over President Donald Trump’s decision to begin peace talks with Russia. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara has this report.

Adams says he will issue executive order reestablishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence at complex

The layoffs are part of a broad effort by President Donald Trump and billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk to reduce the number of workers across the entire federal government

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to discuss plans for ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict. But that was overshadowed by his address to conference attendees. Some of Vance’s comments about European democratic policies were met with criticism. We get analysis with Daniel Hamilton Senior non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins...

The layoffs of probationary workers come after three people representing billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency arrived at the agency last week