On Sunday morning, I picked up my New York Times and read the front-page headline, "Sweeping Health Care Overhaul Passes the House." I said to myself, "Wow, I can't believe they did it."

President Obama hailed the victory:

We are just two steps away from achieving health insurance reform...

Step into any shop in Dahiya, the Hezbollah-controlled suburb of Beirut, and you're bound to find a variety of peculiar souvenirs portraying the face of Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.

Love him or hate him, he's popular, and apparently, he's everywhere.

Here are some of the more unique tchockes...

Often contextualized by war and conflict, many in the Arab world are portrayed by some of the media as either victims or perpetrators of violence.

In order to shatter these stereotypes, it's important to step back and examine how other cultures live.

I spent six months...

Watch the broadcast media's live coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East, and you'll see correspondents doing stand-ups in Israeli cities like Jerusalem and Ashkelon. But virtually no reporters are actually on the front lines in Gaza.

That's because for nearly two months, the Israeli government has

According to a recent report by a bipartisan religious freedom watchdog group, Iraq is one of the most dangerous places on earth for religious minorities.

Accusing Iraq's government of tolerating severe abuses of religious freedom, the panel asked that Iraq be designated a "country of particular concern," a status...

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Nine year-old Salee was playing hopscotch with friends when US jets fired three missiles on her town of Hasswa, killing her brother and best friend. Her sister Rusul lost her right foot, and both of Salee's legs were sliced off below the knee.

Six...

Since 2003, one in five Iraqis has been displaced. Two million of them have fled to neighboring countries, mainly Jordan and Syria.

Hoping to lure them home (and perhaps also present the image of a more stable and successful post-surge Iraq) the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has...

"That one sounds like mortar fire," Mohamed said to me. "And that was definitely a sniper." My Iraqi friend and I were in Coney Island for the Friday night summer fireworks. Listening to the thunderous explosions over the water as we rode the Wonder Wheel, memories of life in war-torn...