Perhaps I wrote too soon? It seemed certain last week that the foiling of the apparent plot by young Pakistani-British Muslims to blow up airliners with liquid explosives was not only a good thing, but that it had been accomplished through old-fashioned gumshoe police...
NEW DELHI - The "oil-for-food" program approved by the United Nations for Iraq before its invasion by the United States-led "Coalition of the Willing" in 2003 has had an improbable and belated impact thousands of miles away. Through a convoluted...
ARBIL, Iraq - Hanan's family could never have thought three years ago of leaving Baghdad. They had lived for years in peace with their Shi'ite neighbors in the ethnically mixed Shaab district. All that changed the morning they saw a letter in their courtyard giving...
The U.S. and Israel are close allies, so perhaps it comes as no surprise when both make the same mistakes. Still, Israel always seemed to be more insightful and ruthlessly pragmatic than America. Yet just as the U.S. jumped into the Iraqi imbroglio based on fantasies...
CARACAS - After returning from a whirlwind tour abroad and as he prepares for his next one, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has kept busy on the diplomatic front, visiting convalescent Cuban leader Fidel Castro on his 80th birthday, replacing his foreign minister,...
With Salam Talib Southern Iraq saw the biggest outbreak of government violence against Shi'ite groups this week as Iraqi government troops attacked followers of Ayatollah Mahmoud Hassani al-Sarkhi. "The government raided the religious school of the followers of...
"The war isn't over yet," says Tzipi Livni. The Israeli foreign minister's address to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations left no doubt that the battle will continue, for the moment, on a diplomatic and political plane: "At...
Thirty-three days of war. The longest of our wars since 1949. On the Israeli side: 154 dead – 117 of them soldiers. 3,970 rockets launched against us, 37 civilians dead, more than 422 civilians wounded. On the Lebanese side: about a thousand dead civilians,...
LONDON - Many Muslims in Britain are beginning to doubt the alleged plot to blow up aircraft flying to the United States from Britain. The arrest of 24 people last week was followed by the cancellation and diversion of hundreds of flights at British airports. The plot...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - When saffron-clad Buddhists monks and Catholic priests and nuns in white are joined by Muslim and Hindu leaders in an interfaith rally for peace, the last thing anyone would expect is that their pacific efforts would end in fisticuffs. Chanting...
