Dispatch

Breakfast with Ahmadinejad

Iran's president meets the press.

BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

China's Brainwashed Youth

The protests against Japan didn't get us our islands back, but they made one thing clear: The people are puppets of the Chinese Communist Party.

BY QI GE | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Commandos for Jesus

Meet the former Green Berets delivering aid to some of the most blighted corners of Burma, and saving souls along the way.

BY DANIEL LOVERING | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Turkey's Men in Syria

How the Gaza flotilla organizers became the best hope of Syrian refugees abandoned by the world.

BY JUSTIN VELA | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Das Gift

How Angela Merkel's bold plan to save Europe may have just saved Barack Obama.

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Silent Hand of Saleh

Was the security lapse at the U.S. embassy in Sanaa a move by Yemen's former president to show America who still calls the shots?

BY IONA CRAIG | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Brother of Al Qaeda Leader Offers Peace Plan

Mohamed al-Zawahiri was behind the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, but what he really wants is to make peace with the West.

BY MOHAMED FADEL FAHMY | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Playing Defense

Barely 100 days into his presidency, Francois Hollande is already trying to persuade France that his administration isn't sinking. 

BY ERIC PAPE | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Workers of the (Arab) World, Unite!

Could American labor unions be the best way to roll back radical Islamists in the Middle East?

BY JOSEPH BRAUDE | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rumblings Along the Coast

Are Kenyan counterterrorism death squads behind the latest spate of targeted killings in Mombasa?

BY JONATHAN HOROWITZ | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Russia’s Bridge to Nowhere

A facelift ahead of this year's Asia-Pacific summit can't mask the fact that Vladivostok, Russia's easternmost city, is slowly dying.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Turkish Dilemma

Turkey's voluble prime minister has talked himself into a corner on Syria. Will the spiraling unrest next door finally force him to back up his words?

BY KAREN LEIGH | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Race to the End

Pakistan's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea to develop battlefield nukes.

BY TOM HUNDLEY | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Whose Side Is Yemen On?

Ali Abdullah Saleh's government colluded with al Qaeda and duped the West. Has anything changed since his ouster?

BY SAM KIMBALL | AUGUST 29, 2012

Magical Thinking

A rare look inside Swaziland's mysterious annual kingship ceremony and brewing protest movement.

BY NELLIE BOWLES | AUGUST 27, 2012

The Decider

Opponents of an Israeli strike on Iran have focused their ire on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But it's his hawkish defense minister, Ehud Barak, who is really driving the talk of war.

BY OREN KESSLER | AUGUST 23, 2012

Murder in Marikana

Jacob Zuma might survive the Marikana tragedy. But can South Africa survive Jacob Zuma?

BY ROY ROBINS | AUGUST 23, 2012

The Life and Death of a Great Russian City

The tragic plot to destroy Nizhny Novgorod's centuries-old historic city center.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | AUGUST 22, 2012

The Air War in Aleppo

The battle for Syria's north is not a fair fight. But the rebels are winning anyway.

BY JUSTIN VELA | AUGUST 22, 2012

Don't Pity the Nation

Syria's crisis may be spillling over into Lebanon, but Hezbollah and its rivals are perfectly capable of screwing up the country on their own.

BY MITCHELL PROTHERO | AUGUST 21, 2012

China’s Fishy Show Trial

The verdict is in: Bo Xilai's wife is guilty. But the Chinese government's carefully crafted story is full of holes.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 20, 2012

Hugo and the Hereafter

Is Hugo Chávez's monstrous new mausoleum for his idol, Simón Bolívar, a hint that he may want to be buried there himself?

BY PETER WILSON | AUGUST 17, 2012

Sinai's Invisible War

Egypt's new president has used the recent Sinai attacks to clean house. But nobody knows what really happened -- and the military isn't talking.

BY MOHAMED FADEL FAHMY | AUGUST 13, 2012

China's Debt Bomb

Half an hour from Beijing, the potential ground zero of the Chinese real estate meltdown.

BY JONATHAN KAIMAN | AUGUST 13, 2012

The Syrian Rebels' Libyan Weapon

Meet the Irish-Libyan commander giving Bashar al-Assad nightmares.

BY MARY FITZGERALD | AUGUST 9, 2012

Our Man in Kigali

For years, Rwanda's budding dictator, Paul Kagame, has gotten away with murder, while winning praise (and billions of dollars) from the West. But is the blind support for this strongman finally drying up?

BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | AUGUST 3, 2012

Panetta Counts the Ways

Iron Dome, the Joint Strike Fighter, and other signs of America's love for Israel.

BY KEVIN BARON | AUGUST 1, 2012

Our Brothers in Arms

Will the Pentagon continue to support Egypt's military under a new Islamist government?

BY KEVIN BARON | JULY 31, 2012

People of the Book

What's behind the strange love affair between Mormons and Israel?

BY OREN KESSLER | JULY 30, 2012

Mitt Meets the Brits

London gets a crash course in the 2012 election.

BY ALISTAIR BURNETT | JULY 26, 2012