Middle East

NEW NORM: A man walks amid destruction in the northern city of Aleppo on April 10.

Turning Syria inside out

Middle East | With foreign fighters invading the rebellion, millions of Syrians fleeing civil war, and a brutal president determined to hang on, good guys and workable solutions are disappearing in a country no longer itself

DESTROYED: A young girl stands amid burned ruins in Baga, Nigeria, on April 21.
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Tar bubbles and terrorism

Human Rights |  Punishing crimes big and small can be life-and-death business

President Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abba visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem Friday.

Globe Trot: Obama’s Middle East tour. Next stop: Jordan

International |  President Obama ended his three-day visit to Israel with a stop at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem today. He travels on to Jordan. The president’s…

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US: A satellite image of an airstrip deep in the Saudi Arabia desert that may be a secret U.S. drone base.
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Droning on

Middle East |  Like other parts of the Middle East, the U.S.-Saudi alliance needs its own democracy movement

Danish police investigate the crime scene following the attempted assassination of Lars Hedegaard in early February.

Is America ready to face Islamic radicals?

Islam |  President Obama should listen to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the “founder” of shuttle diplomacy. Kissinger told Bloomberg TV’s Judy…

Obama and Netanyahu at the presidet's arrival ceremony today in Tel Aviv.

Globe Trot: Obama and Netanyahu, together again

International |  President Barack Obama has arrived in Jerusalem, greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres in a rare state visit. While the…

Arabs watch fireworks during a New Year's celebration in Nazareth in northern Israel.

Middle East hope—but the Times sticks with stone-throwing

Middle East |  The New York Times yesterday ran one more of its long, anti-Israel stories, but it included this paragraph about life for radicals in a Palestinian town: “If…

Itinerary: Israel
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Itinerary: Israel

Israel |  First presidential visit to key U.S. ally will also focus on its Mideast neighbor

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana

Globe Trot: Possible pope successor, Syria, China, Benghazi, Russia, evangelism in Muslim countries

International |  Pope Benedictus XVI became the first head of the Roman Catholic Church since 1415 to resign∫ announcing he will step down Feb. 28, citing his “advanced…

A motorcyclist waves his support as French troops in armored personnel carriers drive through Mali's capital Bamako Tuesday.

Globe Trot: Mali matters, Dreamliners grounded, ‘red line’ in Syria, Chechen Bibles

International |  The French defense minister says fighting in Mali will be “long,” as French forces today moved into towns just south of areas captured recently by Islamic…

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and President Obama at a joint press conference on Friday at the White House.

Globe Trot: Early withdrawal, Syrian disaster, Iranian-American pastor …

International |  Afghan forces will take “full responsibility for their nation’s security” this year, announcedPresident Obama on Friday after meeting with Afghan…

Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Globe Trot: Afghanistan troop levels, Mali intervention, Pakistan bombings …

International |  And then there were none. As recently as two weeks ago, military experts were discussing the hard-to-fathom option of the Obama administration leaving as few…

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