ADEN, Yemen — The ambush spot was good: Single-lane street, just enough space to overtake. Few exits, easily controlled. Hidden from the highway by high buildings lining either side. So when the strike team trailed Lt. Col. Ali Ashaal into this quiet neighborhood on the western edge of Aden, they were ready. A Toyota Voxy minivan with…
Two days after Mexican forces killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel last month, Gladdys Uribe was in her California home, anxiously tracking her parents’ movements in Mexico. The capture and death of the world’s most wanted drug trafficker — Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes — triggered a violent retaliation that spread…
TYRE, Lebanon — Whatever choices Hassan Kareet had left were all bad. Israeli bombardment, not to mention the threat of an invasion, meant Kareet couldn’t stay in the village of Bazourieh, some 11 miles from Lebanon’s border with Israel. But finding a place to stay in a country where an estimated 1.3 million people are already displaced…
Jurors in New Mexico leapfrogged their California peers Tuesday, handing down a $375 million verdict against Meta for endangering children while a similar lawsuit remains pending in Los Angeles County. The jury in Santa Fe came back with a decision in just hours while the L.A. panel slogged through its eighth day of deliberations over…
A deaf 6-year-old boy snatched by immigration agents from Northern California and deported to Colombia this month needs to be returned to the U.S. immediately or he could die, a lawyer representing the child said Wednesday. Attorney Nikolas De Bremaeker said the boy, Joseph Lodano Rodriguez, was “at risk every day that he is not…
In the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians were displaced in one of the fastest mass movements of people in recent history. Train stations became shelters. Theaters became aid centers. Borders became waiting rooms for grief. Journalists moved in the opposite direction, toward uncertainty, because without witnesses, displacement becomes statistics and…
Software engineer Arin Saghatelian shed no tears when he heard that the supreme leader of his native land had been killed by American bombs. “I don’t think you’re going to find many people in support of that dictatorship or the mullahs that are in power right now,” said Saghatelian, who lives in La Crescenta and…
As the U.S. and Israel continue their bombardment of Iran, Iranian Angelenos are turning to a patchwork of communication apps, social media and cable news for updates on their loved ones some 7,500 miles away. The Times spoke with several people in the “Tehrangeles” area of Westwood this week — the epicenter of L.A.’s sprawling…
ETZATLÁN, Mexico — There are two sides to the town on Jalisco’s tequila trail. One is the charming pueblo in foothills lined with neat rows of agave cactus. In the central plaza you’ll see swaths of handwoven fabric draped like canopies over the cobbled streets — splashes of pink, blue, yellow and green offering welcome shade from…