Israeli troops opened fire Monday as crowds tried to reach Israeli-and US-supported food distribution centres in Gaza, witnesses said. The 34 people killed, according to health officials, made it the deadliest day of such shootings since the new aid system launched last month. The Israeli military didn’t immediately comment on Monday’s shootings. But after some…
Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday. The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government’s security forces against fighters from Assad’s Alawite minority. The dead include hundreds of Alawite civilians, whom the Syrian…
Nearly a week after a midair collision between a commercial jetliner and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, investigators are piecing together the events that led to the deadliest US air disaster since 2001. The crash, which killed all 67 people on board both aircraft, has raised critical questions about…