Mark Mazzetti

President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.

President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.

Some newer employees have been summoned to an off-site location and asked to surrender their credentials.

King Abdullah II, a close U.S. ally dependent on aid from Washington, is confronting the president’s demands that he take in Palestinians from Gaza, a step the king’s domestic politics will not allow.

A Times investigation shows how extensively Israel penetrated the Lebanese militia, closely tracking the group’s commanders and culminating in the assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s agenda in the region is not yet clear, but the geopolitical landscape has changed significantly since he was last in office.

Israeli forces had been steadily closing in on Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, for weeks before he was cornered and killed in a ruined house in the Gaza Strip.

Plus, an ambitious, risky private space mission.

The recent prisoner exchange between Russia and the U.S. — the biggest and most complex since the Cold War — was a diplomatic chess game that required patience and creativity. Mark Mazzetti, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains. An earlier version of a map used in this video referred incorrectly to the status of Crimea by including it as part of Russia. Russia seized the peninsula in 2014, and most countries do not recognize Crimea as Russian territory.

Radical forces in Israeli society have moved from the fringes to the mainstream and put Israel’s democracy in peril. Here are the takeaways from our investigation.