Italian Giovanni Lo Porto also killed while captive in Pakistan

But are U.S. drone attacks on Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia any different?

In Lahore a Facebook group dedicated to atheists and agnostics serves a silent minority in the world’s other religious nation-state

Thanks to the Internet, Jerusalem seems closer than ever—but thanks to her government’s policy, remains out of reach

Shootings and a major drone strike mark a big news day around the globe

In a new book, an American-born journalist explores the invention of a homeland, and sees the seeds of political instability

In the heart of Kashmir, where happiness was a warm AK-47, the weapon was my voice, and my dream

According to the state’s election commission, there are 800 registered Jewish voters. That’s bogus.

Can the women’s antiwar group, active in the anti-Israel BDS effort, turn people against drone warfare?

The world’s largest democracy is now the second-largest purchaser of Iranian crude. Why is the West standing by as India exploits sanctions?

Wanted Women, a new joint biography of two Muslim women, refuses to distinguish between an al-Qaida terrorist and a feminist intellectual

Al-Qaida cell phones confirmed Pakistani complicity in the hiding of Osama Bin Laden. That country’s military and intelligence patronage of terrorism requires the United States to take a harder line there.

The recent arrest of Pakistani nationals in the aftermath of Bin Laden’s death reveals that the operation was the result of internal Middle East politics—and no coup for U.S. spycraft

The Arab Spring has cast new light on resistance in the Middle East. A rare 2007 encounter with the leader of Iran’s Jundullah reveals the murky place held by the region’s so-called freedom fighters.

The death of Osama Bin Laden is a major achievement for the Obama Administration, but it underscores the difficulty of waging a successful cultural war in the Middle East