Tag: coastal
Violence Sweeps Coastal Syria, Sowing Chaos: ‘We Have to Get Out of Here’
Syria After Civil War Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. More than 1,000 people have been killed since Thursday, a war monitor said. By Christina Goldbaum and Reham Mourshed Reporting from Tartus on the Syrian coast The gunfire began at dawn on…
Biden makes an 11th-hour move to block coastal oil drilling
Camila Domonoske President Biden is using a decades-old law to block drilling for oil in more than 625 million acres of U.S. ocean — the largest region a president has ever protected using this authority. It’s a move designed to help cement his climate legacy, and one the incoming Trump administration is expected to challenge.…