WATCH: Mohamed Salah’s move to Turkey is about more than soccer. For Turkish fans, Salah’s arrival marks the landing of a soccer star, but for Egyptians, it is a sign of how much regional moods have shifted. @chriselkholy.bsky.social  dives in: https://f.mtr.cool/hqfarsuuwo

Editor’s Pick: Israel called its strikes on Beirut “precise.” @baydoun.nl  and @chrisosieck.bsky.social  reconstructed five of them to test what “precision” actually meant for the civilians living around the targets. https://f.mtr.cool/mivlcnrmvg

Two queues stretch across Syria. In one, Syrians wait outside empty gas stations. In the other, thousands of tankers carry Iraqi oil across the country to the Mediterranean without stopping at a single Syrian pump https://f.mtr.cool/okwixuwjzh

LISTEN: Ryan Gingeras joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.socialon The Lede to discuss what mafias from the United States to Lebanon and Tokyo reveal about the origins and limits of the nation-state, and his new book, "Mafia: A Global History." https://f.mtr.cool/sanynavntp

As gas stations across Syria ran dry, thousands of Iraqi tankers were crossing the country daily on Iraq's new western export route, avoiding the Strait of Hormuz. A journey along the road from the eastern border to the coast reveals how the abundance and shortage are connected. shorturl.at/D8HNe

From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social  archives: The climate crisis isn’t just changing the frequency of disasters, but how societies prepare for them. On Greece’s Evia island, wildfires reveal a stark future: https://f.mtr.cool/rmxkbkxqbu

“The problem isn’t just these recent attacks on the fishers’ docks. The problem is that when there’s a war, the sea becomes unsafe, and the number of days when you can go out to fish drops dramatically.”

Israel has held election after election, yet Benjamin Netanyahu remains central to the country’s politics. Why? Listen to political analysts Rida Abu Rass and @dahliasc on Global Insights. https://f.mtr.cool/fieabarzyq

Why is one of the world's worst humanitarian catastrophes still so absent from the global conversation? Join @dannypostel.bsky.social  with Samir Abdul, Kim Searcy and Ragaa Abdallah in Chicago this Sat. July 11, for a forum on Sudan’s genocide. https://f.mtr.cool/xkjqgwikqa

What does this World Cup reveal about the U.S.? @simonkuper.bsky.social  joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social  on The Lede to discuss politics, power and money at the 2026 tournament — and why he says the World Cup may illuminate America without changing it. https://f.mtr.cool/gyqvzseviw

Once, Syrian silk traveled the world. Now, only a few families remain to tend the silkworms, reel the thread and work looms passed down through generations. https://f.mtr.cool/ljlnqcuuds

Editor’s Pick: In the mountain village of Deir Mama, @newlinesmag.bsky.social  interviewed Syrians engaged in a race against time to preserve their centuries-old tradition of breeding and raising silkworms. https://f.mtr.cool/guxgkygruq

Who emerged stronger from the U.S.-Iran peace deal — and who was left worse off? On the podcast this week, Negar Mortazavi and @dannypostel.bsky.social join @faisalalyafai.bsky.social  to unpack the agreement’s geopolitical fallout. https://f.mtr.cool/dcnwkgcyxi

🎧: @hannahluci.bsky.social joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on The Lede to discuss the conflicts on the continent’s margins, from Transnistria and Syria to Crimea  https://f.mtr.cool/mtqkkcglph

Editor's Pick: Veteran war correspondent Shyam Tekwani reflects on the afterlife of photographs — and how they become fodder for conferences and fellowships while their subjects recede into oblivion https://f.mtr.cool/vsrqgocuwf

Syria’s newest agricultural venture isn’t olives or pistachios. It’s frogs. A former migrant worker returned home and launched what is believed to be the country’s first commercial frog farm, betting that it could become an unlikely export industry. https://f.mtr.cool/qinozfoluu

Editor’s Pick: For 13 years, Hassan al-Abbasi searched for his six nieces and nephews. Syria's missing persons commission has now concluded that they are dead. https://f.mtr.cool/zfdnrvvgso

WATCH: Maddison Sawle joins Kwangu Liwewe Agyei to discuss her latest investigation for @newlinesmag.bsky.social , examining the plight of a generation of Sudanese refugees traumatized by conflict, now facing abandonment far from the borders of Sudan.

Journalist and author Suzy Hansen joins Faisal Al Yafai on this week’s episode of The Lede to examine the everyday realities of living under 21st-century authoritarianism. Listen to the full episode: https://f.mtr.cool/hvifzavxnm

Editor's Pick: In Syria, the six al-Abbasi children, disappeared with their mother in 2013, have been confirmed dead. With no remains recovered, the finding rests on footage tied to the Tadamon massacre, shedding light on how the Assad regime turned detainees’ children into enemies of the state.

WATCH: Journalist and author Suzy Hansen joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss what one Istanbul neighborhood reveals about Turkey under Erdoğan, and her new book, "From Life Itself." https://f.mtr.cool/mrvfzoqyki

Lebanon's beekeepers spent years fighting pesticides, climate disruption and economic collapse to keep their vital colonies alive — then the bombs fell. https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/lebanons-beekeepers-are-at-breaking-point/

"You can read this investigation as a true crime story, but for me it's a story about media ethics." Jasmin Mujanović joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on The Lede to discuss a notorious 1992 photo of an execution in the former Yugoslavia & the ethics of war reporting newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-...

🧵The southern Indian town of Ennore is a stark example of how repeated oil spills are eroding fishing livelihoods and forcing families to rethink their ancestral profession. https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/oil-spills-are-pushing-indian-fishers-to-the-brink/

🧵Turkish government policies that are clearing the way for mining, tourism and unchecked development are also fueling unprecedented forest fires in the country, as seen in this @newlinesmag.bsky.social  investigation. https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-political-machine-feeding-turkeys-wildfires/

🧵Mongolia produces some of the world’s finest cashmere — and is being undone by it. As brands market “sustainable” fiber, herders face debt, dying pastures and a collapsing steppe https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/sustainable-cashmere-wont-save-mongolias-steppe/

🧵Pakistan is home to the most glaciers in the world outside of the polar regions. Climate change is causing them to melt rapidly, creating unique challenges, writes Aina J. Khan. https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/pakistan-is-losing-its-glaciers-to-climate-change/

🧵 Today is Earth Day! 🌍Over the past year, @newlinesmag.bsky.social  has continued to publish reporting from different regions on how environmental change is unfolding on the ground: through land loss, industrial policy and the uneven effects of climate disasters. https://newlinesmag.com/

Editor's Pick: In Syria's Quneitra, Israeli soldiers raid homes, set up checkpoints and shoot cattle. Residents describe a fragile situation and a government in Damascus that lacks the means to push back https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/life-under-israeli-occupation-in-syrias-quneitra/

In southern Lebanon, water workers move under drones, repairing shattered pipelines and keeping stations running after Israeli strikes, which are systematically destroying access to water https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/israeli-strikes-are-decimating-water-infrastructure-in-lebanon/