2009, begun with Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza, was a year of great torment and much misery in the Middle East.

Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama are the two men who are the symbolic bookends of the 2000s: bin Laden, the man who masterminded the attacks on the World Trade

In my office hang photos of this writer with Pakistan's last four leaders. Two of them - Zia ul Haq and Benazir Bhutto - were murdered. Former prime minister Nawaz

President Barack Obama recently visited Dover Air Force Base where he was photographed with the flag-draped coffins of soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why did Obama do

KARACHI, Pakistan: Greg Mortenson is an American and, like our philanthropist Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi, likes to spend his time with the underprivileged and poor without discrimination,

President Obama delivered an exceptionally well-reasonsed and appropriately humble address accepting a Nobel Prize for Peace, writes John Nichols.

How to Escalate in Afghanistan: the American ability to mount a sustained operation of this size in one of the most difficult places on the planet,

As the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan

An attack on Quetta, and on the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is something else entirely - and not just because bombing Quetta would probably result in mass civilian casualties,

One of the best things that has happened since Barack Obama took over from George W. Bush is that 'the most powerful man in the world' no longer sounds like