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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

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Marriage |  Finding the meaning in matrimony, and other forms of commerce

Reshma Begum, the 19-year-old seamstress who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building.

Globe Trot: Factory collapse survivor didn't dare dream of rescue

International |  The seamstress who survived for 17 days buried inside the Bangladesh garment factory collapse told the BBC: “Even in my wildest dreams I did not…

President Obama responds to questions about Benghazi Monday.

Benghazi is not ‘a sideshow’

Libya |  When the deputy chief of mission in Libya gives an anguished account of last September’s attack for the first time—as Gregory Hicks did last week—a…

Supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif celebrate the victory of their leader in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Globe Trot: Former PM Nawaz Sharif returns to power in Pakistan

International |  Pakistanis returned to high office Nawaz Sharif, after parliamentary elections this weekend gave his party a commanding new hold on power. Sharif’s…

Children from southern Somalia hold their pots as they line up to receive cooked food in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Globe Trot: Did U.S. farm bill worsen Somali famine?

International |  More on the UN report on Somalia’s famine, which killed more than a quarter-million Somalis in less than two years. We all watched it unfold, made worse by…

A man walks through a room in the gutted U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans.

Globe Trot: The State Department has some explaining to do

International |  The second-highest serving officer at the U.S. mission in Libya is set to testify today in Congress against the White House version of events surrounding the…

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi the day after the attack.

Going rogue

Libya |  Top U.S. State Department officials today are set to testify against the White House’s version of the assault on Benghazi

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (left) and President Barack Obama at a memorial ceremony outside the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2012.

U.S. ordered troops to ‘stand down’ during Benghazi attack

Libya |  For more than six months, a gap has been yawning wide in the Obama administration’s storyline on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed…

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, damaged buildings wrecked by an Israeli airstrike are seen in Damascus, Syria.

Globe Trot: Israel targets Syrian weapons with dual airstrikes

International |  Israel, largely staying on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war, this weekend launched a pair of airstrikes,including an attack near a sprawling military…

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

Globe Trot: Civil war looms in Iraq

International |  Nobody wants a return to civil war in Iraq, but events are moving in that direction. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has become too divisive to stop it.

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

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