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Byline: Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Karam Shoumali From air and by sea, using radar, telephone and radio, officials watched and listened for 13 hours as the migrant ship Adriana lost power, [...]

From air and by sea, using radar, telephone and radio, officials watched and listened for 13 hours as the migrant ship Adriana lost power, then drifted aimlessly off the coast [...]

Byline: Patrick Kingsley and Karam Shoumali Many Greeks have grown frustrated as tens of thousands of asylum seekers languished on Greek islands. Now, evidence shows, a new conservative government has [...]

Many Greeks have grown frustrated as tens of thousands of asylum seekers languished on Greek islands. Now, evidence shows, a new conservative government has a new method of keeping them [...]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin and Karam Shoumali Those who lived under the Islamic State greeted the news about the group's leader with grim satisfaction at best. 'He deserves a worse [...]

Those who lived under the Islamic State greeted the news about the group's leader with grim satisfaction at best. ''He deserves a worse and more abhorrent death,'' one said. BAGHDAD [...]

The killings, one of them caught on video, raised the specter of wider sectarian warfare as fighting in Syria escalates. Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighters killed at least two Kurdish prisoners [...]

The article reports on the group of Syrian asylum seekers crossing into Europe who where burned to death after choosing to travel through the forests and fields ravaged by wildfire instead of taking the safer route but be captured by the Greek police. It presents details about the group's journey from Syria to Greece to Turkey with the help of smugglers. Focus is given on the efforts of the families of the victims to locate their loved ones and verify if they were still alive or detained.

Byline: Christopher F. Schuetze and Karam Shoumali BERLIN - As the host of an Arabic-language talk show in Germany, Jafaar Abdul Karim is supposed to be the man with the [...]

BERLIN -- As the host of an Arabic-language talk show in Germany, Jafaar Abdul Karim is supposed to be the man with the answers. But his answers are not always [...]

Byline: MELISSA EDDY and KARAM SHOUMALI HEIDE, Germany -- When Ayham Ebrahim fled the war in his native Syria in 2016 and joined his wife, a pediatrician, in Germany, he [...]

HEIDE, Germany -- When Ayham Ebrahim fled the war in his native Syria in 2016 and joined his wife, a pediatrician, in Germany, he was eager to continue his career [...]

Byline: BEN HUBBARD and KARAM SHOUMALI BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Seven years ago, Islam Dabbas, an engineering student, was thrown in prison for protesting against the Syrian government. His mother visited [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Seven years ago, Islam Dabbas, an engineering student, was thrown in prison for protesting against the Syrian government. His mother visited him twice, paying bribes to do [...]

SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, England -- One was an 18-year-old Iraqi orphan who was known to neighbors of his elderly foster parents as a troublemaker. The other was a 21-year-old from Syria who [...]

Byline: CEYLAN YEGINSU and KARAM SHOUMALI SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, England -- One was an 18-year-old Iraqi orphan who was known to neighbors of his elderly foster parents as a troublemaker. The other [...]

ISTANBUL -- For Mohammed, an Iraqi civil engineer, the cruelest experience of his life was not when his father tortured him for being gay. It was not when Islamic State [...]

ISTANBUL -- Six years of war in Syria have ravaged the life of Ebrahim Abbas, 27. Mr. Abbas, a computer technician, was detained for protesting against the Syrian government, besieged [...]

Byline: KARAM SHOUMALI and BEN HUBBARD ISTANBUL -- Six years of war in Syria have ravaged the life of Ebrahim Abbas, 27. Mr. Abbas, a computer technician, was detained for [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The United States military suffered its first combat death in Syria on Thursday when a service member was killed in the northern part of the country, an [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- In Moscow on Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia laid bunches of flowers in memory of the victims of [...]

ISTANBUL -- Turkish border guards killed at least 11 Syrian refugees, including at least three children, who were trying to cross into Turkey illegally on Sunday, Syrian activists and a [...]

ISTANBUL -- Turkish border guards have killed or injured more than a dozen Syrian refugees as they tried to cross into Turkey, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued [...]

Hassan Aboud, a feared Islamic State commander and double amputee who led the jihadist group's rank and file in a string of prominent battles in Syria, died Wednesday from wounds [...]

Byline: KARAM SHOUMALI ISTANBUL -- A Syrian journalist and filmmaker who documented atrocities by the Islamic State in Syria and trained hundreds of citizen journalists has been killed in a [...]

ISTANBUL -- A Syrian journalist and filmmaker who documented atrocities by the Islamic State in Syria and trained hundreds of citizen journalists has been killed in a Turkish town near [...]

Byline: ANNE BARNARD and KARAM SHOUMALI BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Insurgent commanders say that since Russia began air attacks in support of the Syrian government, they are receiving for the first [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Insurgent commanders say that since Russia began air attacks in support of the Syrian government, they are receiving for the first time bountiful supplies of powerful American-made [...]

Byline: ANNE BARNARD and KARAM SHOUMALI ISTANBUL -- The smugglers had promised Abdullah Kurdi a motorboat for the trip from Turkey to Greece, a step on the way to a [...]

Byline: KARAM SHOUMALI and IAN AUSTEN ISTANBUL -- The father of Galip and Aylan Kurdi, the young refugee boys from Syria whose drowning off a Turkish beach has touched a [...]

ISTANBUL -- The smugglers had promised Abdullah Kurdi a motorboat for the trip from Turkey to Greece, a step on the way to a new life in Canada. Instead, they [...]

ISTANBUL -- The Islamic State may have used chemical agents in an attack against civilians and rival insurgents in northern Syria late last week, according to local rebels and an [...]

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- An airstrike by the American-led military coalition in northern Syria this week killed eight civilians, including two women and five children, according to neighbors and relatives of [...]

Byline: KARAM SHOUMALI, ANNE BARNARD and ERIC SCHMITT ANTAKYA, Turkey -- A Pentagon program to train moderate Syrian insurgents to fight the Islamic State has been vexed by problems of [...]

Byline: ANNE BARNARD and KARAM SHOUMALI BAGHDAD -- The commander of a group of Syrian fighters trained by the United States has been kidnapped by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, [...]

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- A Pentagon program to train moderate Syrian insurgents to fight the Islamic State has been vexed by problems of recruitment, screening, dismissals and desertions that have left [...]

Byline: KARAM SHOUMALI and CEYLAN YEGINSU ISTANBUL -- A large explosion at a cultural center in the Turkish town of Suruc, near Syria, on Monday killed at least 28 people [...]

ISTANBUL -- A suicide bombing struck a cultural center in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Monday, killing at least 30 and wounding more than 100 in an [...]

AKCAKALE, Turkey -- The laborers work all day, piling bags of fertilizer onto carts and wheeling them through the crossing that connects this southern border town to Syria. The Syrian [...]

NBC News on Wednesday revised its account of the 2012 kidnapping of its chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, saying it was likely that Mr. Engel and his reporting team had [...]

Byline: CEYLAN YEGINSU and KARAM SHOUMALI ISTANBUL -- After maintaining an open-door policy throughout the four-year conflict in neighboring Syria, Turkey has moved this month to close the two remaining [...]

ISTANBUL -- After maintaining an open-door policy throughout the four-year conflict in neighboring Syria, Turkey has moved this month to close the two remaining border gates between the countries, shutting [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBEIRUT, Lebanon -- Kurdish militias regained full control of the northern Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, driving Islamic State militants out with the help of American-led airstrikes, Kurdish [...]

Byline: KAREEM FAHIM and KARAM SHOUMALI MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Turkey will allow Iraqi Kurdish forces, known as pesh merga, to cross its border with Syria to help fight militants from [...]

MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Turkey will allow Iraqi Kurdish forces, known as pesh merga, to cross its border with Syria to help fight militants from the group called the Islamic State [...]

Byline: KARAM SHOUMALI and ANNE BARNARD MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Gun battles and explosions echoed from the embattled Kurdish city of Kobani in Syria on Wednesday, as Islamic State militants detonated [...]

MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Gun battles and explosions echoed from the embattled Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on Wednesday, as Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and new American-led airstrikes [...]

Byline: KARAM SHOUMALI and ANNE BARNARD MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Kurdish fighters struggled on Tuesday to fight off Islamic State militants in the Syrian border town of Kobani as Turkey's president [...]

ISTANBUL -- Islamic State militants pushed on Monday into the eastern edge of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on the Turkish border, after sustained shelling that drove back the [...]

Byline: KARAM SHOUMALI and ANNE BARNARD MERTISMAIL, Turkey -- Islamic State militants swept into a Syrian Kurdish village on Wednesday just across from this Turkish hamlet, as further south, in [...]