Middle East
Ends and Means
A decade later, what lessons haven't we learned from the war in Iraq that we should?
MARCH 15, 2013
The Execution of the Saudi Seven
Saudi Arabia's farcical justice system condemned seven young men to death this week, and the world remained silent.
BY ALI ALAHMED | MARCH 15, 2013
Kill Lists and Victoria's Secret
A Marine's candid, and often funny, reflections on life during wartime. — The Iraq War Diaries of Lt. Tim McLaughlin
MARCH 14, 2013
Tearing Down Saddam
'This place is pandemonium.' — The Iraq War Diaries of Lt. Tim McLaughlin
MARCH 14, 2013
Hot Pants
A visit to ousted Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh’s new presidential museum.
BY ADAM BARON | MARCH 14, 2013
A Personal History, An American History
How one Marine's diary helps us understand the Iraq war.
BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 14, 2013
My Handwritten War
An eyewitness to history, from the 9/11 attacks to the toppling of Saddam.
BY TIM MCLAUGHLIN | MARCH 14, 2013
Learning Curve
'Never Again' is the wrong lesson to draw from the Iraq war.
BY JAMES DOBBINS | MARCH 13, 2013
Israel's Demographic Destiny
Israel can be Jewish, democratic, or a state in control of the Palestinian territories. Choose two.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 13, 2013
How the Muslim Brotherhood Hijacked Syria's Revolution
The shadowy Islamist group that was all but destroyed in the 1980s is ruining the uprising against Bashar al-Assad.
BY HASSAN HASSAN | MARCH 13, 2013
The Rough Guide to Iraq
A journalist's strange journey on the road to Baghdad.
BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 12, 2013
The Iraq War That Might Have Been
Ten years on, newly published secret documents shed new light on potential turning points the United States missed.
BY MICHAEL R. GORDON, BERNARD E. TRAINOR | MARCH 12, 2013
How Not to Repair a Broken Pot
The lesson of Iraq isn't that American intervention only makes things worse; it's that there's a smarter way to do it.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 8, 2013
Why Is This Man Smiling?
How the Iranian regime used the Kazakhstan talks as pre-election propaganda.
BY MARK D. WALLACE, KRISTEN SILVERBERG | MARCH 8, 2013
Is Oslo Dead?
The peace process's two top negotiators reflect on the 20 years since their fleeting triumph.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 7, 2013
Tehran Tanking
Iran's popularity in the Arab world is way down, but sectarianism is on the rise.
BY MARC LYNCH | MARCH 7, 2013
Why Being So Right Feels So Bad
Why did it take the State Department 10 years and billions of dollars to figure out that Iraq reconstruction was a massive failure?
BY PETER VAN BUREN | MARCH 6, 2013
Syria's House of Cards
After two years, 1 million refugees, and more than 70,000 dead, some Syrians -- and one American president -- are still looking to protect their own interests rather than save a country.
BY AMAL HANANO | MARCH 6, 2013
A Clear View from Foggy Bottom
How State Department analysts -- and no one else -- foresaw the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
BY WILLIAM BURR | MARCH 5, 2013
Lessons Learned (and Not)
Seven things we've learned after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH 4, 2013
Democracy’s Backward March
The six countries where freedom is fading fastest.
BY ELIAS GROLL | MARCH 4, 2013
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Democracy is in retreat. And there's a surprising culprit.
BY JOSHUA KURLANTZICK | MARCH 4, 2013
'Homeland' in the Holy Land
A TV thriller taps into Israel's collective subconscious.
BY DEBRA KAMIN | MARCH 4, 2013
Give Us the Weapons We Need to Beat Assad
The chief of staff of the opposition Syrian Military Joint Command calls on the United States to provide arms, not just non-lethal aid.
BY SALIM IDRIS | MARCH 1, 2013
What Is Egypt?
As America's new secretary of state arrives in Cairo, it's still not clear the United States knows what it's dealing with.
BY STEVEN A. COOK | MARCH 1, 2013
The Brotherhood vs. the Free Press
Egypt's new rulers are determined to tighten their grip on the media scene in Cairo. I should know -- they had me fired.
BY HANI SHUKRALLAH | MARCH 1, 2013
Dead-End Road
Rogue states have a pretty convincing track record of ignoring sanctions, so what makes Congress and the White House think they'll work on Iran?
BY TY MCCORMICK | FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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