Middle East

Are you "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine"? It isn't even noon yet as I write this, and I've already been accused of being both.
Former counterterrorism official Richard Clarke said that former president George W. Bush is guilty of war crimes in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
From mountaintop monasteries to super-modern temples, these amazing places will make you believe.
Poetry is how we say to the world, and to each other, "I am here." Some of my most beloved poets -- Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Billy Collins and Naomi Shihab Nye -- talk about poetry as a way to document the world and our common experiences, to say what needs to be said in a direct, powerful and beautiful way.
Controversy continues after a video of an Olympic Lebanese skier posing topless for a photo shoot has resurfaced on the Internet.
As the United States finally puts a decade of war behind it, a group of senators, including 15 Democrats, is defying the White House and threatening to push the country into a fresh war with Iran.
The Associated Press reports Yemeni officials have said a U.S. drone strike hit a convoy headed to a wedding party.
A graphic video depicts the killing of women and foreigners in Yemen.