The attack further complicates President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s efforts to unify the country and rebuild relationships with the international community, analysts say.
Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong publisher and democracy campaigner, was convicted of national security charges in a city where even minor dissent is now whispered.
About a fifth of the Louvre’s 2,100 employees voted to go on strike for the day, adding to the sense of crisis at the museum since a brazen heist in October.
Australian officials said a father and son killed at least 15 people at a Jewish holiday celebration. More than three dozen people were hospitalized, including a surviving gunman.
Gunmen killed at least 15 people attending a Jewish celebration at the city’s popular Bondi Beach in what Australian officials are calling a terrorist attack.
Officials said the father had been living in Australia since 1998, and that neither man appeared to have a criminal record before the mass shooting on Sunday.
Jimmy Lai, the publisher of a popular tabloid, has spent years fighting the landmark national security case brought over his support of the city’s now vanquished pro-democracy movement.
After gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia, rabbis across the United States reflected on how to protect their congregations during their own events.
The gunman who killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter had been set to be dismissed from the security forces over his extremist views, U.S. and Syrian officials said.