The Real War in South Asia
Column by Dr. Richard L. Benkin Dinajpur police confirm attack on village Trained as a social scientist, I learned that if a factor appears in event after event, ignoring it is intellectually dishonest and ineffective More...
Special Report: Stalking the Taliban in Afghan currency markets
Report by Matthew Green KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:04pm EST (Reuters) – Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan success story: illiterate village boy makes a fortune thanks to a lifetime More...
In Kerry, Obama picks foreign policy leader, loyal stalwart
Report by Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:24pm EST (Reuters) – John Kerry gave up his presidential dreams after a narrow loss to Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 U.S. election, but More...
U.S., rebels urge gloomy Moscow to help oust Assad
Report by Oliver Holmes, BEIRUT | Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:14pm EST (Reuters) – Syria’s rebel leadership and the United States seized on Russian pessimism over President Bashar al-Assad’s future to More...
Scope of Sandy’s devastation widens, death toll spirals
From New York City’s Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and officials on Friday faced growing evidence of widespread destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy, mounting anger More...
Nehru sat unmoved as Pakistan took Gilgit
Column by Sandhya Jain Indian intellectuals are having difficulty facing two overlapping anniversaries, viz., October 27, when Lord Louis Mountbatten accepted the hurried Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh after Pakistan’s More...
Criminalizing The Defamation of Islam
Column by Amil Imani Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. More...
Assad’s forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital
(Reuters) – Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on Sunday of committing a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army had just retaken More...
Syria rebels say fighting army in Salaheddine
Syrian rebels said they had regained control over parts of a strategic district of Aleppo on Thursday after countering a sustained assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces seeking to retake Syria’s More...
The Wahhabi Invasion of Sri Lanka
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz with Irfan Al-Alawi To many non-Muslims, the existence of an Islamic community on the island of Sri Lanka may be surprising. Sri Lanka has been known for the past three decades More...
