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Byline: Joshua Hammer; With R. M. Schneiderman Meeting Obama next week in Washington, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on a furious quest to save Europe. The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn [...]

***** CORRECTION: Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that the Pentagon told Japan that the transfer of 8,000 U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam would cost $10 [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer When Ariel Sharon swept into office as Israel's prime minister almost four years ago, Israel's religious right breathed a collective sigh of relief. In his three decades [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer (With Nuha Musleh in Ramallah) Hasan Khreisheh doesn't look like a revolutionary. A heavyset figure with a thick mustache and teeth stained from a regular intake of [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer On the evening of March 24, 1999, after the collapse of last-ditch diplomacy, NATO planes commenced bombing targets in Belgrade and in the ethnic Albanian province of [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer Salman Shareef Duaffar is proud of his former title as the most wanted man in Iraq. Seven years ago, Duaffar and three accomplices carried out the most [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer Ashagray Zeleke is on the front lines of a war over Israel's future. The local representative of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ), Zeleke administers [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer, Alexandra A. Seno, Joseph Contreras, Rana Foroohar and Friso Endt, Jonathan Adams, Emily Flynn,Vibhuti Patel, Devin Gordon, Ginanne Brownell ISRAEL Will He Take the Fifth? Will Israeli [...]

Earlier this month the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot published a joint interview with four former directors of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence service, that was notable for its sharp [...]

In the charnel house that was Somalia in the early 1990s, Reuters correspondent Aidan Hartley had a strange encounter. Wandering through the nearly abandoned British Embassy in Mogadishu, Hartley stumbled [...]

On a barren, wind-swept hilltop six miles northeast of Jerusalem, Shuki Sat has staked another new claim for Israel's future. Last year, Sat, 26, his wife and his daughter left [...]

HALLIBURTON Cha-Ching Cheney The stock market may be suffering, but Operation Iraqi Freedom has sure been good for business at Halliburton, the Houston oil-services company famous for its former CEO, […]

Business Unseemly CEOs More accustomed to being praised than pilloried, Jack Welch tried to make the uproar over his perks-for-life retirement deal go away last week. In effect, he decided [...]

For decades, the list of the world's most dangerous conflicts was short and changed very little. All dated to World War II and its tangled aftermath of cold war and [...]

Al Qaeda's Supporting Acts Was September 11 supposed to be only one of a series of carefully timed Qaeda attacks on American targets? That theory is gaining currency among investigators [...]

Harassment of homosexuals is hardly a new problem in Egypt. But in recent months an unprecedented vilification campaign against gay men has drawn international opprobrium--and cast new light on the [...]

ASSASSINS How Israel Got Its Man On Jan. 14, Raed Karmi, head of a militant Palestinian gang in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, left his safe house to visit [...]

Atal Behari Vajpayee has good reason not to trust Pervez Musharraf. In May 1999, two months after the Indian prime minister had traveled to Lahore for a groundbreaking summit with [...]

Nazir Ahmad Khan's short life as a Kashmiri militant began one month ago in the ramshackle village of Sanoor-Kalipura. An 18-year-old handicrafts maker, Khan had previously shown little affinity for [...]

Murad Khan's journey from schoolboy to prisoner of war began in a dirt- poor village in Pakistan's North-West Frontier province five years ago. At a government secondary school in Khanpur, [...]

Abu Ali is back in business. Wading through a fertile field in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, the 30-year-old farmer squeezes the bud of a seven-foot-high plant and rubs the sticky juices [...]

In the dusty alleys of Qabatiya Village just outside Jenin, Mohammed Nasser was known as the neighborhood kid who made good. A rising star in the Palestinian Authority's military police, [...]

Khayed Srouji has logged enough hours on West Bank roads this year to last him a lifetime. On a blistering hot day in summer, the 44-year-old diabetic from Tulkarm is [...]

When he succeeded his father, King Hussein, to the throne two years ago, Jordan's King Abdullah II was hailed as a thoroughly modern monarch. Oxford-educated and a fan of the [...]

The most dangerous flashpoint in the Middle East sits at the edge of a chain-link fence just beyond the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Shuba. A chill wind whistles over [...]

Until the moment the masked men burst into his shop last Sunday morning, Mamoun Freij must have believed the worst was behind him. For four years the Palestinian merchant had [...]

The busiest place in Ramallah these days is a parched slope on the city's outskirts, just beneath the Jewish settlement of Psigot. Here, in a new extension of the Al [...]

The attack came with little warning. We had just arrived in Selce, an idyllic cluster of red-tile-roofed houses packed tightly on the steep eastern slopes of a river gorge. For [...]

Nestled on Albania's southern coast just 45 miles across the Adriatic from Italy, the crumbling port of Vlore is a smuggler's paradise. Countless sandy coves hidden along the rugged shoreline [...]

Inside the crowded hearing room at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, emotions were stretched taut. As an inquiry began last Monday into the shooting deaths of 13 Arab Israelis in [...]

For Ariel Sharon, it was a clear sign that his enemies would not be intimidated. Just two days after his landslide victory in the Israeli election, Palestinian bombers packed 30 [...]

Oded Doron has a queasy feeling about Ariel Sharon. The 44-year-old carpenter has voted for the Labor Party all his life, and regards the old Likud general as a bellicose [...]

Lt. Matt Stapleton is a long way from his weekend combat training. On an unseasonably warm January morning, the North Carolina National Guardsman--a volunteer part-time soldier back home in the [...]

Motti Dayan and Etgar Zeituni considered it just another shopping trip. Last Tuesday the cousins and co-owners of a trendy Tel Aviv cafe called Yuppies ventured into the seething West [...]

In the end, Biljana Plavsic must have known that she had nowhere to run. Three days before Christmas, the U.S. ambassador to Bosnia, Thomas Miller, paid a discreet visit to [...]

From the earliest days of their relationship, the two men never really trusted each other. At the Center for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade, a think tank set up [...]

The great man is feeling cranky. Squeezed into the rear seat of an antique trolley car, Lech Walesa casts a baleful eye out the window at the old town of [...]

During my stint as Newsweek's bureau chief in Buenos Aires in the mid- 1990s, the facade of normality that marked the Carlos Menem era was sometimes shattered by echoes from [...]

Ella Nilowa has been an outsider in two societies. Two years ago Nilowa, a Jew from Ukraine, immigrated to Germany with her husband and two daughters. Nilowa's father was a [...]

It was the perfect photo opportunity. Surrounded by French gendarmes and NATO military commanders, Kosovo's chief administrator, Dr. Bernard Kouchner, strolled jauntily through the wreckage of the Trepca Lead Foundry [...]

Milo Djukanovic was not his confident self. As the 38-year-old president of Montenegro strode along Freedom Street in downtown Podgorica, hundreds of policemen formed a tight cordon around him. The [...]

The ten-minute video clip seems irrefutable. Shot by security cameras from the rooftop of a Serb-run auto-repair shop last July, it captures an attack by five armed Albanian men on [...]

Catherine Menschner, 35, has spent the last two weeks staring into the faces of the men she believes turned her into a monster. Between the ages of 12 and 24, [...]

In the Spring of 1999, Foday Sankoh, the leader of Sierra Leone's brutal Revolutionary United Front, had at last been brought to the dock. Extradited by the Nigerian government, the [...]

When Hashem Thaci marched into the Kosovar capital of Pristina in June 1999, he was hailed as a conquering hero. As the supreme commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the [...]

The conversations are fragmentary, yet tantalizing. Taking place from 1976 through the early 1980s, they offer a glimpse into a labyrinth of shady financial dealings among leading members of West [...]

The soldiers didn't bother to knock. Shortly after 3 a.m. last Monday, 10 to 15 heavily armed French NATO troops crept up to a house on the outskirts of the [...]

The Wall Street cafe on the outskirts of Klagenfurt was thick with cigarette smoke and expectant conversation. It was just before 1 o'clock, and word had percolated through the restaurant [...]

The serene alpine nation of Austria had never seen anything like it. For five days last week, the elegant streets of downtown Vienna were packed with raucous protesters. Thousands of [...]

The phone call was long, heated and, in the end, painfully decisive. For 40 minutes last Tuesday morning, German ex-chancellor Helmut Kohl and Wolfgang Schuble, 57, his wheelchair-using protege and [...]