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Umit Bektas / Reuters The Honeymoon Is Ending in Syria
A former jihadist needs more than charisma to heal his shattered country.
Omar Albaw / Middle East Images / AFP / Getty An ‘America First’ Deal With the Houthis
The U.S. has extracted itself from the conflict, not ended it.
Mohammed Hamoud / Getty Bombing the Houthis Won’t Work
Trump’s war has no strategy and is likely to backfire.
Mohammed Hamoud / Getty Can One Man Hold Syria Together?
A former jihadist has remade himself in a bid to remake a scarred and divided country.
Moises Saman for The Atlantic Narendra Modi’s Populist Facade Is Cracking
India is now a testing ground for whether demagoguery or deteriorating living conditions exert a greater sway on voters.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: DPA Picture-Alliance / Alamy. Ukraine’s Hardest Winter
Weary soldiers and citizens express fatalistic optimism while preparing for the loss of U.S. military support.
Sasha Maslov for The Atlantic He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate. He Was Also Innocent.
Each day for 50 years, the Japanese boxer Iwao Hakamada woke up unsure whether it would be his last.
Illustration by Matt Rota ‘The Iranian Period Is Finished’
Hezbollah’s losses have led some in Lebanon to imagine a future without it.
Myriam Boulos / Magnum ‘It’s an Earthquake’
Beirut responds to Nasrallah’s death.
Alexandra Henry / Hans Lucas / Redux
