France Confronts ‘Absolute Barbarity’
By ANDREW HIGGINS and MILAN SCHREUER
Parisians who went out on Friday night to listen to music, watch soccer, or enjoy a meal or drink with friends, quickly became engulfed in a blood-soaked drama.
The assault on Paris was carried out by three teams of attackers — including one who traveled to Europe on a Syrian passport along with the flow of migrants — on behalf of ISIS, officials said.
Parisians who went out on Friday night to listen to music, watch soccer, or enjoy a meal or drink with friends, quickly became engulfed in a blood-soaked drama.
The statement was issued online in Arabic, French and English and distributed via supporters on Twitter, according to a group that tracks jihadist propaganda.
Friday’s killings came just 10 months after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, provoking new concern about France’s ability to manage the deep gulf between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Rescue workers and victims at the site of an attack at a Paris restaurant.
Follow live coverage from Times reporters as the situation develops.
The recent violence in Paris and Beirut and the downing of a Russian passenger jet appear to be part of a centrally planned campaign of attacks by an evolving Islamic State.
After the Obama administration began airstrikes against ISIS near Kurdistan, some Iraqi politicians said the U.S. was more concerned about protecting the Kurds than Iraq’s Arab majority.
Diplomats from more than a dozen countries are meeting in Vienna on Saturday for talks on ending the Syrian civil war. Here is a rundown of what these countries want in these talks.
The French president, who was reportedly mentioned by name as attackers stormed a rock concert in Paris, faces a difficult and perilous path forward as he decides how to respond.
French officials revealed that one of the attackers was carrying a Syrian passport, and perhaps may have entered Europe along the migrant trail. Poland moved first to shut the door.
Perhaps no election victory was more eloquent than that of U Tin Thit, a poet and former political prisoner who defeated a former defense minister.
South Korean police fired water cannons and tear gas at protesters, who were brought together by a host of grievances, including President Park Geun-hye’s decision to replace school history textbooks.
The Treasury Department said the North Koreans, and a North Korean company in Egypt, had links to their country’s weapons proliferation efforts.
The United States has broadened its fight against the Islamic State, targeting the group’s senior leader in Libya on Friday night, the Pentagon announced on Saturday.
The secretary of state visited Tunisia, which he called a “great model” of transition to democracy, on his way to talks in Vienna about the Syrian crisis.
Cellphone video recorded by a Kurdish fighter captures a frightening truck bomb explosion near Sinjar, one day before Kurds captured the city.
The Hamas-run channel, broadcasting from Gaza City, covers the distant conflict as a way for Hamas to remain relevant and challenge its rival, Fatah.
The Ukrainian military said the death toll was its highest since a fragile cease-fire with pro-Russian separatists began two months ago.
Faced with skepticism after a Russian plane crash in Sinai and flooding in Alexandria, Egyptian officials portray Western alarms of terrorism as a plot against Egypt.
The demolitions on Saturday were the most sweeping use of a recently revived, controversial antiterrorism measure since unrest escalated last month.
Coaches for France and Germany decided not to tell their players of the carnage, and most fans in the Stade de France just north of Paris had no cellphone reception.
As President Obama heads to Turkey, an annual gathering of presidents and prime ministers is poised to become an urgent summit meeting on confronting extremism.
With lethal strikes against Russia, in Lebanon, and now in Paris, the Islamic State shows its chilling reach, and becomes a broader threat.
The network’s news team has reworked plans and reformulated questions for the Saturday debate to make them more related to terrorism and national security.
People attending a show by an American group, Eagles of Death Metal, described sudden terror when gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter dismissed his senior military assistant, Lt. Gen. Ronald F. Lewis — who held a job little known beyond Washington — for unspecified personal misconduct.
Ambulances screamed down the boulevards, as a stunned and confused French capital was left to wonder: Why us? Once again?
Her father brought her diary to the world. Now, with the copyright expiring in Europe, a Swiss foundation is arguing that his role was larger.
The meeting of world leaders is an opportunity for a nation that has faced rising turmoil and instability to restore some of its luster on the world stage.
A loose alliance of clerics, politicians and commanders has been insistent that the nuclear deal has changed nothing in relations between the Iran and the United States.
The shooting deaths of the 45-year-old father and his 18-year-old son took place amid an uprising in which 13 Israelis and at least 85 Palestinians have lost their lives.
After the win, the question was why the military leaders who controlled Myanmar would voluntarily hand over power. The answer seems to be that they never thought they would.
Yar Mohammad Hussainkhel is trying to turn the tide on the country’s entrenched system of corruption and trafficking.
This month, the country suspended all flights in and out of the city in response to security concerns that a bomb might have brought down a Russian jetliner.
The police were summoned to the town of Wallenfels after a woman called an emergency doctor to say that she had discovered what appeared to be body parts.
The territorial leader has backed the company’s lease in Darwin after a research institute said it could be used to spy on American Marines based there.
A car in which he and another militant were believed to be traveling was attacked on Thursday. “We think we got him,” said a senior military official.
Yazidis helped the Kurds gain control of the city, which has been under the brutal domination of the Islamic State for more than 15 months.
News that the National League for Democracy had taken 348 seats in Parliament reinforces a rout of the military-backed ruling party in a landmark election.
For the millions who grew up as only children, the Communist Party’s move to allow married couples to have two offspring reawakened feelings of isolation.
The president opened an intense campaign for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, writing articles aimed at business audiences and planning a White House event.
A former prime minister and diplomat, Mr. Eryani helped bring about a peaceful change of government in 2011.
Over one million Syrians have sought refuge in a country of barely four million people, and the strains have passed what anyone envisioned was the breaking point.
The seeds of the current debacle were sown when immigration became an untouchable political issue.
Erdogan re-enacts Ataturk as the Kurdish question strains Turkish-American relations.
Instantly we are scanning Twitter, calling out estimates of the dead.
New York Times correspondents covering the migrant crisis in Europe share their experiences reporting on the forces irrevocably changing the Continent.
China has been feverishly piling sand onto reefs in the South China Sea for the past year, creating seven new islets in the region. It is straining geopolitical tensions that were already taut.
What started as a popular uprising against the Syrian government four years ago has become a proto-world war with nearly a dozen countries embroiled in two overlapping conflicts.
This river is one of a network of thousands at the front line of climate change.
Modern Russia has inflamed conflict in former Soviet republics to create “frozen zones,” allowing it to influence events and confound its opponents.
November 13, 2015
November 13, 2015
