A volunteer escorts a 2-year-old American boy to be reunited in February with his mother, who is from Honduras and awaits deportation at the Dilley family detention center outside of San Antonio. Christopher Lee for ProPublica The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave the

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivers a government declaration to Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, on the upcoming EU summit, in Berlin, Germany, March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse BERLIN/PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) - (This March 18 story has been corrected to fix the Spanish deputy prime minister's name to Jesus, not Jose, in paragraph 18) For a self-described Transatlanticist like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the language has been unusually blu

Photo of Albergue Amparito, Oasis de Paz del Espíritu Santo, Villahermosa taken by the author and reproduced here with permission. The second Trump administration has distorted the concept of “safe third country” beyond recognition, creating what amounts to a system of legal abandonment for some of the most vulnerable migrants. In January 2026, a small group of us from the Everywhere Border project travelled to Mexico’s southern states to conduct interviews and focus groups w

Pomona-based Mexican American artist Jaime Muñoz designed the “ICE Stole Someone Here” signs popping up across the Inland Empire. Muñoz said the butterfly behind bars was a symbol for detained immigrants. (Katerina Portela / De Los) Outside Andrea Galván’s Ontario home, two young boys stop on their scooters to watch their neighbor create signs. Galván, an art consultant and activist, is accompanied in her driveway by a group of volunteers passing stencils and aerosol paints a

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference after meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 29, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ​said on Sunday ‌that when to end the war ​with Iran will ​be a "mutual" decision made ⁠with Israeli ​Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking ​by phone with The Times of Israel, ​Trump said Netanyahu ​will

Smoke rises following an explosion, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 7, 2026. Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS QAMISHLI, Syria March 8 (Reuters) - Kurdish residents of northeast ​Syria warned Iran's Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight the Iranian government, citing their own experience in Syria in recent ‌months as evidence their Iranian counterparts would be "abandoned." Iranian Kurdish militias based in northern Ira

A bird flies next to the damaged Ramada Plaza hotel building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in central Beirut, Lebanon, March 8, 2026. REUTERS/Claudia Greco BEIRUT, March 8 (Reuters) - Israel's military said it ​hit Iranian commanders in the Lebanese capital early on Sunday, expanding the scope of its campaign to the heart of Beirut after days ‌of strikes that have left near

War With Iran Won’t Reshape the Region the Way America Wants After a strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran, March 2026 Majid Asgaripour / West Asia News Agency / Reuters Eager to show that he can do what no American leader has done before, President Donald Trump has chosen conflict over diplomacy and gone to war with Iran. The Islamic Republic, knowing that this fight is existential, retaliated quickly with deadly missile and drone attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Mi

The Feb. 28 school strike in Minab, which killed dozens, including children, appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating. [Source: The New York Times] The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility. But a bo

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doubled down on his refusal to become involved in the Iran conflict and rebuked U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off trade with Spain as a form of punishment. “The position of the Government of Spain can be summed up in three words,” said Sánchez in a televised address Wednesday morning. “No to war.” Sánchez argued Europe has been in a similar situation before, referring to the negative impact of the Iraq war. “We must not repe