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After fleeing violence at home, Syrians struggle to eke out a new life in Jordan’s cities and towns.

Mira Nair's latest film includes a character who's a journalist and CIA agent. Is this responsible filmmaking?

It appears the Tsarnaev brothers were self-motivated. But their Salafist extremism was itself one outgrowth of the brutal Chechen wars of independence against Russia.

In Israel, an architectural competition and its winner have been sabotaged by the bad faith of its sponsors.

With the killing of Awlaki, the president of the United States became judge, jury and executioner for American citizens.

America’s covert warfare—a bizarre form of unconscious wish fulfillment—warrants Scahill’s unembedded, dogged, independent reporting.

In the coming decades, two converging nightmares are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition and conflict.

Decades of Jewish settlement and Arab dispossession have radically changed the demographic makeup of this Palestinian capital.

Despite a surprising showing by opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, Chavismo lives on. But can Nicolás Maduro hold it together?