New Lines Magazine

1 week ago | newlinesmag.com | Tam Hussein

On Oct. 1, 2024, gunfire cracked near the Israeli Embassy in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm. Later that day, two hand grenades exploded near the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen, the Danish capital. The attacks were carried out by young men, reportedly aged between 15 and 20, with ties to Swedish organized crime. Swedish and Israeli investigators blamed Foxtrot, a cold and violent Swedish transnational crime syndicate that has dominated the northern European underworld.

2 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Jeffrey Barbee

As a decades-old treaty begins to unravel and world powers eye new opportunities, a group of environmental lawyers is trying to save the southern continent Cape Town is nestled on a small peninsula that pokes out into the chilly vastness of the Southern Ocean. This city of nearly 5 million people is wrapped like a glittering hug around the stony buttresses that hold up the towering Table Mountain.

2 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Madeline Edwards

For the Druze, memories of past lives intertwine with trauma from the conflict — which began 50 years ago this month It was Sept. 25, 1983, eight years into Lebanon’s deadly 15-year civil war and the height of the “Mountain War” between Christian fighters aligned with the right-wing Lebanese Forces and fighters from the majority-Druze Progressive Socialist Party (PSP).

2 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Rosabel Crean

As it celebrates Assad’s fall, one family on the outskirts of Damascus mourns the price that it — and countless others — paid for Syria’s freedom For the first time in 14 years, Mayada Mattar is serving plates of sweets — turmeric-tinged fennel biscuits, date-stuffed sesame rolls and petit fours — a tradition in Arab homes at times of celebration. But this time, the celebration is bittersweet.

3 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Èlia Borràs

The tension in the Birmingham Arena is mounting; a world record is on the line. Half a dozen colossal men have spent the evening in the United Kingdom’s second city heaving one massive log after another over their heads to great cheers at the World Log Lift Challenge, one of the prime events for the kind of weightlifters known as strongmen. But now, the arena grows quiet as a 450-pound goliath known as Iron Biby approaches the final log — one weighing in at 509 pounds.