People pass near a mural of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s late supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, April 23, 2026. President Trump said Thursday that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill any boat” that is laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as the Pentagon announced that U.S. forces had boarded another sanctioned tanker that was carrying oil from Iran. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER, ERIC SCHMITT, EUAN WARD and MAX BEARAK Presi

A refugee camp near Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb. 7, 2025. After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Donald Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo, an aid worker briefed on the plan said Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Guerchom Ndebo/The New York Times) By MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN, EILEEN SULLIVAN and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS After halting a U.S. resettlement program fo

By YEGANEH TORBATI Iranians crossing the country’s border with Turkey on Wednesday expressed widely differing views on the war, the ceasefire, and their government, but all voiced deep concern over an economic crisis they said was unfolding in the country. At the Kapikoy border crossing in eastern Turkey, Moji, 38, was returning to Iran after several months in Europe. She had been under constant stress while away, she said, and worried about her family back in Iran who live i

Mourners as a flatbed truck arrives carrying 12 coffins during a mass funeral in the southern Lebanese village of Aytit, on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Families gathered for the funeral of 12 people who were killed in recent weeks but could not be brought to their home village during the fighting. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By LYNSEY CHUTEL, LEO SANDS, JONATHAN SWAN, SANAM MAHOOZI and MAX BEARAK Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it had seized two cargo ships Wednesd

Videos circulating online earlier this week show tourists ducking at the bottom of the Pyramid of the Moon (seen here), the second largest in Teotihuacán, amid the sound of gunfire. One Canadian tourist was shot dead and several other people were wounded, including U.S. nationals, officials said, when a man opened fire Monday at one of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations, the Teotihuacán pyramids just outside Mexico City. The gunman then shot and killed himself, author

By LAURA CHUNG New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, and the surrounding region were under a state of emergency Tuesday, after heavy rains triggered flash flooding and landslides that swept away cars, forced more than 100 schools to close, and buried roads and homes. Some areas recorded more than 3 inches of rain within an hour, the country’s weather agency, MetService, said. The emergency declaration, made by the authorities Monday afternoon, gives them more power to respond an

Workers stand near the graves of Hezbollah members as they take a break from digging in a damaged cemetery in the southern Lebanese village of Mansouri, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. The U.S. State Department will host a second round of ambassador-level talks between Israel and Lebanon, which are in a cease fire, on Thursday, the department said. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER, JONATHAN SWAN, FARNAZ FASSIHI and SOMINI SENGUPTA President Donald Trump

Protesters demonstrating for and against the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro argue from behind barricades across the street from the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, where Maduro, the ousted president of Venezuela, and his wife, Cilia Florez, were scheduled to be arraigned later on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times) By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and MARIANA MARTÍNEZ U.S. Special Forces brought down President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela swiftly and publicly.

By ERIC SCHMITT The U.S. Navy has turned back 27 ships trying to enter or exit Iranian ports since a U.S. blockade outside the contested Strait of Hormuz began about a week ago, the military’s Central Command said Monday. A U.S. military official also said Monday that a team of Marines was searching as many as 5,000 containers aboard the Touska, an Iranian cargo ship that the Navy disabled and seized in the Gulf of Oman on Sunday after it tried to evade the blockade. It was t

People pass near a billboard depicting American aircraft in a net in Enghelab Square in Tehran, on Monday, April 20, 2026. Despite sending mixed signals in recent days, both the United States and Iran gave clearer indications on Monday that they were planning to send negotiators to peace talks in Pakistan this week. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER, ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS, FARNAZ FASSIHI and MAX BEARAK Despite sending mixed signals in recent days, both the Unit