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It could take years to unpack the dynamics behind Ft. Hood. But I have a suggestion for the Muslim-American community: go beyond the routine condemnations. Deeds, not words.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
I am drawing together here the stories of six men who, nearly eight years after their wrongful and mistaken capture, are finally free from Guantánamo, even if an uncertain future awaits them.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.31.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faced sharp rebukes from Pakistani audiences Friday, including one woman who accused ...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Congresswoman Barbara Lee gained international acclaim for being the only member in Congress who courageously voted against the authorization of the use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
With no end in sight, the U.S. must realize the limits of intervention, both in tanks and treasure, and integrate the implications of their actions over the last 8 years into their policy towards the region.
Gilles Dorronsoro | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Most do not join the Taliban for money, but because the Afghan government is unjust, corrupt, or simply not there; or the Americans have bombed their houses or shown disrespect for their values.
Mark Levine | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
The Taliban confirmed it was behind the double suicide bombing that occurred in the International Islamic University in Islamabad last week.
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Two Chicago men who were schoolmates in Pakistan plotted terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper that triggered widespread protes...
Politics Daily | David Corn | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Why is Dick Cheney helping Barack Obama? I know they're cousins -- eighth cousins, to be precise -- but for a guy who seems to detest the president an...
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
There seems to be a colossal disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of the Obama Administration's strategy to withdraw troop levels in Iraq from 120,000 down to 50,000 by August 2010.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
In briefs, the battle lines have been drawn. On the one hand is the government, endorsing Bush-era policies. And for the Uighurs, there is a Boston-based attorney and his team.
Hamdan Azhar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
If the Nobel Peace Prize Committee tells us that war is compatible with peace, who are we to say otherwise?
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
"The Long War" merely exchanged the shock-'n'-awe geographical breadth of the President Bush's chosen moniker ("global") for a shock-'n'-awe time span.
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Satu...
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
President Obama has no real choice but to accede to Gen. McChrystal's request and soon; if he does no,t the Taliban and Al Qaeda are willing to outlast our troops on the ground.
Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books
The rate of death by suicide in the armed forces is increasing at alarming rates. Death is terrible, no matter how it comes. But death by suicide leaves those left behind, asking Why? How?
Mark Levine | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
It is up to Obama to use the Prize as an opening to pursue truly transformational policies on the world stage regardless of the potential political cost to him.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
Freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else's Humvee. You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don't, you'll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Lt. Col. David Frakt said Congress is still behaving unconstitutionally with regard to the right of the Executive branch and the Judiciary to order the release of prisoners from Guantanamo.
The Guardian | Sarfraz Manzoor | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guant�namo detention camp in the summer of 2003 as a godless 19-year-old with a love of drinking, hard rock music and ta...
Jon Soltz | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
As casualties increase in Afghanistan, public opinion has swung clearly against the war in that region. The president must make some quick decisions, and make his case to the American public.
Gary Hart | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Largely under the threat of weapons of mass destruction, nation-state wars are declining. But irregular, unconventional conflicts are expanding.
Alex Thurston | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
Somalia's civil war constitutes a danger to the whole region, but it is not the only cause of instability. How far will chaos spread, and what is the appropriate US policy response?
Global Post | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
By C.M. Sennott NEW YORK -- The image of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born bus driver from Denver and now a terror suspect, embodies the ...
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Rob Asghar | Posted 11.06.2009 | World