Taxi drivers, commuters and ambulance crews rely on a crowdsourced web of radio broadcasts and messaging groups to cross a landscape of checkpoints and roadblocks that can change by the minute

The British Labour government is preparing biting measures against Israeli settlements. For Britain's Jewish community, the response will test where solidarity with Israel ends and complicity with its extremist leadership begins

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has been dissolved as part of a deal to integrate its fighters into the Syrian army, a major step as Damascus seeks to resolve internal strife and rebuild the country with U.S. support