South Asia Brief
This week, the region saw deadly weather disasters, rising border tensions, growing economic anxiety from the Iran war, and renewed diplomatic activity as India hosted a major BRICS meeting in New Delhi.
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Messages From Iran
What the world's not hearing
The day after
One of the worst attacks of the war
The Democrats’ Identity Crisis
Mind the Midterm: The Latest on the Redistricting Wars
Is Syria safe and what’s Damascus like?
A look inside Syria
Watch: Russian attack on Kyiv
Deadly Storm Kills Over 100 in India’s Most Populous State
Severe thunderstorms are common across northern India during the peak summer months before the arrival of the annual monsoon season.
Today's Headlines
Xi Jinping warns Donald Trump over Taiwan; Ukraine faces massive overnight Russian attacks; Cuba has run out of gas and is experiencing blackouts lasting up to 22 hours a day, and South Carolina is entering the redistricting battle.
Russian attack on Kyiv kills five
Injures at least 44
Developing: Russia launches massive attack on Kyiv
BRICS Foreign Ministers Meet in India
Iran war tests bloc unity
Developing: Russia launches massive attack on Kyiv
Deep Dive on the Strait of Hormuz with Jason Bordoff
Prediction Markets Lobbying is Booming
Top betting platforms spent about $1.8 million lobbying Washington in the first three months of this year, a nearly 80 percent increase on same time last year.
What You Need to Know: Middle East Today
Is the war in Iran getting a rebrand?
Category:India
Meet the Kerala Factory Behind the Met Gala Carpet
While cameras focused on celebrities at the Met Gala, hundreds of artisans in the southern Indian state were watching something else: the carpet they had made with their own hands.
Category:Middle East
What You Need to Know: Middle East Today
Is this the calm before the storm?
Category:The Exchange
Richard Haas on the US-China Summit
In the Shadow of Iran
Topic:Syria
They started a revolution, now they want justice
Long read: 14 years after their arrest sparked Syria's war, the graffiti boys confront their torturer in court
Category:Headlines
Today's Headlines
Escalating tensions over Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, Trump heads to high-stakes talks with China, while hantavirus outbreak and deep proposed cuts to U.S. science funding spark new domestic concerns
Category:Politics
Trump goes to China
What to expect
Topic:Critical Minerals
Trump and Lula Discuss Trade, Critical Minerals
Transnational criminal networks also on agenda
Category:Syria
‘They stripped me naked, I was hanged’
Assad regime victim speaks to Noosphere
Category:Midterms
Data centers and the midterm elections
Plus: A delicious tiki-adjacent cocktail
Category:Sunday Night with Chuck Todd
AI and Cybersecurity in America: Extended Edition
Leading US voices on technology and security, Miriam Vogel and Anne Neuberger, on where we go from here
Category:Syria
Execute Assad’s cousin, families demand
Category:Gaza
Bombing a residential area in Western Gaza City.
Category:Syria
The mood inside the Damascus courthouse
Second hearing for Assad regime figure underway
Category:Syra
In Damascus for trial of Assad era tyrant
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Category:Syria
Rachel Hagan in Damascus for Groundbreaking Regime Trial
Assad cousin Atef Najib who oversaw torture of children faces their families in court
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