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This is how Yasir Arafat deals with terrorism: careering through the muddy, storm-soaked streets of Gaza one evening last week, the crack troops of the Palestinian Preventive Security forces roared [...]

This being the holly land, it was probably inevitable that the assassin would claim to be acting in the name of God. American assassins -- to take a more familiar [...]

AL GORE HAD JUST SAT DOWN to cold cereal and mixed fruit with the chief American negotiator at the climate-change conference in Kyoto, Japan, last week. The international meeting was [...]

Byline: Robert J. Samuelson and Jeffrey Bartholet Obama tapped her to set up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Can she create a more honest market? When do you aim [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Bartholet One of Obama's oldest friends and most trusted advisers on the personal constraints of White House life--and the occasional urge to break free. Bartholet: How is [the [...]

Byline: Katie Connolly and Jeffrey Bartholet Barack Obama and John McCain couldn't agree more on Afghanistan. Except when they don't. It wasn't long ago that John McCain was making the […]

How Somalia's legendary 'Mad Mullah' prefigured the rise of Osama bin Laden--and the 'forever war' between Islam and the West. At Dul Madoba, which means black Hill in Somali, a […]

Byline: Jeffrey Bartholet and Daniel Stone; With Richard Wolffe and Dina Fine Maron in Washington Many of Obama's top advisers, like an increasing number of Americans, have learned and lived [...]

Everyone's talking about talking to the Taliban. But before we jaw-jaw, there will be more war-war. Don't even ask Mullah Sabir about peace talks. There's nothing to talk about, says [...]

Byline: Michael Hirsh and Jeffrey Bartholet Mogadishu is a place most Americans would rather forget. During the 1990s, the 'Black Hawk Down' debacle symbolized the dangers of dabbling in far-off [...]

Byline: Kevin Peraino, Dan Ephron and Jeffrey Bartholet (With Joanna Chen in Jerusalem, Nuha Musleh in the West Bank, Michael Hirsh and Richard Wolffe in Washington, Christopher Dickey in Paris [...]

James Nachtwey has been described--by a fellow photographer--as the Angel of Death. If you see Nachtwey in a ravaged land, and people are not dying in front of his lens, [...]

Nobody has voted, so we've got an order to collect them,' the Indian soldier explains. Nearby, seven Kashmiri men, eyes hard with what could be anger or fear, are squatting [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Bartholet The Indian soldier, in full battle gear and armed with an AK-47, seems only mildly embarrassed. He's herding a dozen men and women down a narrow road [...]

Enter the offices of an African big man and have a look around. The first security guard you meet is a wiry fellow with suspicious eyes and a shirt collar [...]

A bystander might have thought some ghastly catastrophe had struck the earth. In the predawn gloom near New York's East River, diplomats from around the globe were sleeping on the [...]

Beit Jala, an ancient jumble of Palestinian homes on a hill opposite Bethlehem, used to be a quiet place. When my wife and I lived there in 1993 and 1994, [...]

When a convoy of U.S. diplomats drove through Srebrenica last week, nobody along the road cheered the peacemakers. One man held up a three-fingered Serb victory sign. Another grabbed his [...]

The people who stormed into rebel leader Foday Sankoh's Freetown villa on May 8 weren't conducting your usual search-and-seizure operation. Enraged by the renewal of a nine-year-old rebellion in the [...]

Imagine a huge mafia funeral. Some mourners cry from grief, others from fear, others from relief. And soon after the burial, among the closest relatives the talk turns to the [...]

Orphaned politicians in Damascus, who had paid obeisance to one and only one leader for 30 years, had a little succession problem on their hands. The Syrian Constitution clearly stated [...]

Every dying language had an adventurous youth. Eyak can be traced to an ancient mother tongue that was centered near the Yukon and Tanana rivers in North America. Three millennia [...]

To his neighbors in the leafy Athens suburb of Nea Erithrea, Brig. Stephen Saunders lived an ordinary life. The military attache to the British Embassy walked his dog after work, [...]

It never occurred to Queen Rania not to visit Saudi Arabia with her husband, King Abdullah. The fresh-faced Jordanian royal, at 29 the youngest queen in the world, knew the [...]

The calculus of Israel's long history in Lebanon seems, at first glance, simple enough. Add up the invasions, 'operations,' commando raids, kidnappings and massacres by proxy militias. Then count the [...]

The calculus of Israel's troubled history in Lebanon seems, at first glance, simple enough. Add up the invasions, 'operations,' commando raids, kidnappings and massacres by proxy armies. Then count the [...]

The abandoned foundry complex in central Freetown now thrums with an energy both malignant and benign. Thousands of jittery people are camped under a huge corrugated steel shed, among enormous [...]

In 1991, a visitor to rural Uganda could peer through the portals of hell and glimpse the holocaust to come. It took a little work then. You had to hire [...]

Zuber has a gaze that's a little too steady. Taken together with his bushy black beard, shaved head and tan shalwar kamiz--the pajama-like clothes that Afghan men wear--the effect is [...]

Madeleine Albright seemed like a good foil. She's a woman--the first ever to be U.S. secretary of State. And she's pro-choice on abortion. Surely, feminists and family-planning activists would listen [...]

Our plane to Mogadishu is a Soviet-made Ilyushin-18, built in the Khrushchev era. The exhaust funnels are charred black, the tires bald. A Russian in blue overalls paces the aisle […]

Nawaz Sharif was democratically elected, but he isn't a democrat. The former Pakistani prime minister, ousted last week in a coup, acted more like a despot after his landslide election [...]

Two Russian fighter-bombers, flying low and tight over the high mountain ridges, dropped eight cluster bombs on the Chechen village of Elistanzhi. One bomb hit the local school, killing at [...]

Eurico Guterres is not a very imposing enemy. On one level, he's just a two-bit thug, a former gang boss who allegedly controlled prostitution and gambling rackets in East Timor. [...]

The three women entered the United Nations office in East Timor and softly appealed to an American volunteer, Pamela Sexton. Could she help them with an injured man? Sexton knew [...]

In New Zealand, where sheep outnumber people 15 to one, folks know how to party. This weekend's bash promises to be the biggest in a long while. Five top chefs [...]

It's a slow-motion catastrophe largely hidden from outsiders. But the latest visitors to North Korea confirm the world's worst fears. A nation of 23 million people is starving, slowly and [...]

If Hwang tells all, it's disaster for the North HWANG JANG YOP, NORTH KOREA'S top ideologue, told colleagues in Beijing that he was going to a department store. Instead he [...]

An apology raises hopes for an end to the last great cold-war standoff THE CEREMONY ALONG THE DEMILITARIZED zone was proceeding smoothly and solemnly, as befits the handing over of [...]

WHEN GODZILLA THREATENS TO expose himself, it's clear Japan is changing. Hideki Matsui, a.k.a. Godzilla, plays right field for the Yomiuri Giants, Japan's most revered--and conservative--baseball team. It was strange [...]

MASAKO OWADA BEGAN TO disappear on June 9, 1993, the day of her wedding. She was a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, an up-and-coming diplomat who spoke five languages. [...]

PEOPLE WHO MAKE PEACE IN THE Middle East are called a lot of things. 'Traitor' and 'dupe' are among the mildest. And as PLO leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime [...]