Dispatch

Mali's Bad Trip

Field notes from the West African drug trade.

BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MARCH 15, 2013

The Beatified Game

How the new pope has blessed the long suffering soccer fans of Argentina’s Club Atlético San Lorenzo.

BY HALEY COHEN | MARCH 15, 2013

Xi Pivots to Moscow

What message is China's new leader sending with his first overseas trip?

BY JOHN GARNAUT | MARCH 14, 2013

Hot Pants

A visit to ousted Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh’s new presidential museum.

BY ADAM BARON | MARCH 14, 2013

Pressed

The propaganda war in Kuwait.

BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 12, 2013

Meet China’s New Foreign-Policy Team

Is Beijing using its latest appointments to send a message to Washington?

BY WILLY LAM | MARCH 8, 2013

A Tale of Two Chávezes

For those who loved and reviled Venezuela's president in equal measure, El Comandante leaves behind two very different legacies.

BY PETER WILSON | MARCH 8, 2013

Camelot in Tokyo

Can Caroline Kennedy shake up Japan’s sexist politics?

BY COCO MASTERS | MARCH 6, 2013

The End of an Icon

Venezuelans react to the death of their larger-than-life president.

BY PETER WILSON | MARCH 5, 2013

Mad Money

Why foreign aid is at the heart of civil war in Congo.

BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | MARCH 5, 2013

What Happened in Luvungi?

On rape and truth in Congo.

BY LAURA HEATON | MARCH 4, 2013

The Fall and Rise of Raila Odinga

In Kenya's contested election, the tortured past of family dynasty is alive but not quite well.

BY JAMES VERINI | MARCH 2, 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

Vote M for Murder

In Kenya, politics is simply the continuation of war, by other means.

BY JAMES VERINI | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Give Me Shelter

Syrians brave bombs and bullets to deliver aid to their war-torn country.

BY JUSTIN VELA | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Sneaking in the Back Door

Did Hugo Chávez quietly slip back into Venezuela to die?

BY PETER WILSON | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Hostage for a Day

How I became a bargaining chip in Yemen’s tribal maze.

BY ADAM BARON | FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Inside the Islamic Emirate of Timbuktu

An exclusive trove of al Qaeda documents found in this fabled city shows a theocracy in the making in Mali.

BY HARALD DOORNBOS, JENAN MOUSSA | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Scotch This Plan

Scotland’s decaying capital city shows why this country is not ready for independence.

BY RICHARD J. WILLIAMS | FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The Laughingstock Next Door

How the Chinese are using Kim Jong Un's antics to mock their own leaders.

BY HELEN GAO | FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Gay Paris

What has taken France so long to step up to the altar of equality?

BY ERIC PAPE | FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Revolution, Interrupted

There's a reason Egyptians keep taking to the streets: The Muslim Brotherhood has proved to be little more than the old Mubarak clique with beards.

BY HANI SHUKRALLAH | FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Cracks at the Core

It's not jihadists who are threatening to destroy Mali -- it's a massive culture of government corruption.

BY TRISTAN MCCONNELL | FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Europe's Hezbollah Problem

In the wake of the Bulgarian bombing investigation, will the European Union finally designate Hezbollah a terrorist group?

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A Murder in Tunis

The assassination of a leftist politician has thrown the poster child for the Arab Spring into chaos.

BY FADIL ALIRIZA | FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Love Is a Battlefield

Are the Taliban using sex to fight America?

BY MUJIB MASHAL | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Death Comes Quietly in Mali

It’s not Islamic radicals or war that’s killing the poor people of the Sahel. It’s something far simpler.

BY ANNA BADKHEN | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Syria's Secular Revolution Lives On

Islamist radicals may be gaining strength, but the spirit that sparked this uprising survives in the unlikeliest of places.

BY OMAR HOSSINO | FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Live, from Beirut...

Watching TV with Hezbollah.

BY MITCHELL PROTHERO | JANUARY 31, 2013

Saying UnSorry

Will Japan's new prime minister really take back his country's apology for World War II?

BY ROBERT WHITING | JANUARY 30, 2013