Middle East

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…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks at the Opera House in Damascus Sunday.

Globe Trot: Defiant Assad, Chavez’s rule, brutal Burma crackdowns …

International |  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave a defiant speech on Sunday—his first public address in six months—defending his harsh crackdown that has brought on…

Al Gore

The liberal-Islamist alliance

Media |  Fox News' Bret Baier last night said the sale of Al Gore's failed Current TV network to Al Jazeera showed that “opposites do attract—at least in TV.”

Nadarkhani upon release from prison in early September

Globe Trot: Iranian pastor rearrested, Syrian death toll, reporter still missing …

International |  Iranian authorities have again arrested an Iranian pastor they freed from a Tehran prison in September. Youcef Nadarkhani, 35, who spent nearly three years in…

Foreigns ministers pose for photographers during a meeting of the

Globe Trot: Confused U.S. policy on Syria, desperate conditions in Philippines …

International |  The United States along with up to 100 other countries recognized Syria’s opposition coalition at a “Friends of the Syrian People” conference in Morocco…

Women protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi chant during a demonstration.

Cairo’s chaos

Egypt |  Islamists crack down on opponents, as Egypt’s president insists referendum will go forward

A wounded protester reacts during clashes between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi outside the presidential palace in Cairo Wednesday.

Constitutional chaos

Egypt |  Supporters of President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood clash with secularists and Christians in Cairo

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