Los Angeles air quality improves from wildfires' hazardous levels
Air quality in wildfire-stricken Los Angeles improved on Thursday from hazardous peaks hit earlier this month, as tiny soot particles that can penetrate the lungs and brain dropped to moderate levels,
Navajo Nation Firefighters Battle Wildfires in Los Angeles
A quick-strike crew of Native American firefighters and journeymen utility workers from the Navajo Nation are helping Los Angeles residents cut through landslides, mangled trees and charred debris of
Los Angeles fires have scorched largest urban area in California in at least 40 years
Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in California since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows.
As Wildfires Linger, Focus Turns to Rebuilding in Los Angeles
The scale of the effort will be vast — the area scorched by the major fires is equal to three times the size of Manhattan.
Here’s where victims of the Los Angeles-area wildfires can get help
Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, and at Pasadena City College Community Education Center, 3035 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena. Those affected can find help applying for federal aid payments of $770, learn the status of their application,
As flames linger, talk turns to rebuilding Los Angeles neighborhoods leveled by wildfires
While there was still a threat from wildfires in the Los Angeles area, officials are also talking about rebuilding plans in the area.
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What to know about sudden rebel gains in Syria's 13-year war and why it matters
The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Aleppo, one of Syria's largest cities and an ancient business hub. The push is among the rebels ...
Monday Briefing: Number of Missing Rises in L.A.
Firefighters made some progress to contain the multiple wildfires across the city on Sunday as more desert winds arrived. The ...
US has twice as many troops in Syria than previously declared, Pentagon says
The Pentagon on Thursday said it has 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, more than twice the 900 it has previously said it has, and that the additional troops are considered temporary forces that were sent to ...
Syria’s new administration condemns Israeli incursions after strike in southern Syria killed three
Syria’s new government has strongly condemned Israel’s incursions into a U.N.-monitored buffer zone, urging the international ...
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Syrians celebrate a month since Assad’s overthrow with revolutionary songs in Damascus
The concert Wednesday marked Maasarani’s return to Syria after 13 years of exile. While living in Los Angeles, Maasarani had continued to support Syria’s uprising through his music ...
To Be From L.A. Is to Know Its Twin Temptations, Beauty and Danger
Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on her relationship with the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.
Scrawled on walls of Assad’s prisons, graffiti express fears, loves of tormented Syrians
Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...