It's Friday, the holy day of the week. The Kingdom's law enforcers gather up eight Bangladeshi migrant workers from their prison cells and bring them to Justice Square in the capital, Riyadh.

Blindfolded, they are led to the center of the square, and made to kneel down. A small...

On the morning of Eid al-Fitr, the biggest festival in the Muslim world, I went to a mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The mosque had taken over the street to accommodate the Eid crowd. Colorful prayer mats covered the asphalt. A thousand people sat down and raised their hands to pray....

On June 3, Ratko Mladic, the former Serb commander, faced an international tribunal. The charges held Mladic "individually criminally responsible" for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes that he "planned, instigated, ordered, committed, and/or aided and abetted."

The worst of these deeds was "a...

America -- indeed, much of the world -- is jubilant after the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

American leaders also know that the killing has made Americans safer, but not safe. As President Obama remarked yesterday, "We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad."

But neither...

A few days ago, to the chagrin of many, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Al-Jazeera. The Arab channel offered real news, said Clinton, while American channels were busy with "a million commercials," "arguments between talking heads," and "the kind of stuff that ... is not particularly informative."

First Ben Ali, then Mubarak: With the collapse of two veteran Arab dictators, America faces an unnerving foreign policy scenario. What will happen if these countries elect "Islamist" governments to power? How should America react?

Right-wing policy commentators quickly present a doomsday option. In a recent Washington Post column, Richard...