NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Susan Glasser about Biden's position after the Hamas attacks and Israel's response and the challenges U.S. presidents face in dealing with the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The conflict is expected to escalate even further in the coming days. But for now, Hamas sees itself with the upper hand.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Times of Israel correspondent Tal Schneider and University of Maryland professor Shibley Telhami about how Israel and Hamas reached this point and what comes next.

A man becomes a mediator between two warring sides in Yemen's civil war. He helps exchange bodies of fallen soldiers.

In a hospital in the frontline city of Taiz, a woman tries to revive her malnourished baby with protein paste. The war-torn country is suffering through one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Yemen produces some of the best honey in the world, from trees in the mountainous north. But the war and climate change make it difficult for beekeepers to produce it.

Even though production has been hampered by the civil war, Yemen still produces honey famous for its taste and the pride people there take in it.

Even though the fighting in the long civil war has decreased, millions of women and children in Yemen face severe malnutrition amid a lack of aid.

Shaimaa Ali Ahmed lost her leg at age 6 after happening upon an unexploded rocket. Children like her bear an outsized burden from the civil war, where land mines and ordnance litter the landscape.

A family lives on the government side of Taiz, Yemen, while their parents and siblings are on the Houthi side. They haven't seen each other in eight years despite being a close drive away.

A Yemeni man who lost 10 members of his family in a Saudi airstrike eight years ago is still searching for justice, his life and the neighborhood forever changed after the strike.

The war in Yemen is slowing down but one of the lasting effects can be seen in the large numbers of people — many of them children — who need prosthetic limbs.

Despite years of civil war, people in Yemen can sometimes find an escape — like at a local beach. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on July 1, 2023.)

Despite nearly a decade of war, people in Yemen can sometimes find an escape - like at a local beach.

Russians who fled to Turkey after their country invaded Ukraine worry that Russian President Vladimir Putin may increase repressive measures that will affect their loved ones back home.

Russians react to the mutiny by Wagner mercenaries and express their opinions on what it says about Putin's grip on power and the future of the country.

Nearly a decade of civil war has destroyed millions of Yemeni lives, but perhaps nowhere has it been felt more than in the neighborhoods in Taiz that are closest to the fighting.

After years of fighting, hunger and destruction, people in Yemen reflect on what they've lost and their low expectations for ending a war that has devastated the country.

People in Taiz are struggling to get food and other necessities amid a civil war that's been going on for nearly a decade.

A rare look from Yemen shows that while the war might be winding down — the vast humanitarian needs persist.