The recent Israeli offensive has put the final nail in the coffin of the Bush administration's Middle East fantasy.

A harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan -- smuggled from prison on tiny paper -- exposes U.S. complicity in torture.

A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture -- the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons. A Salon exclusive.

As we crossed the Syrian border and saw the last of the Iraqi flags, the tears began. How can such a small distance separate life from death?

Surprise -- the U.N. say Middle Eastern countries are slacking off when it comes to gender equality.

The Kesbeh family were called the Palestinian Cleavers when they were deported to Jordan after 9/11. Now living in dire conditions, they are determined to get back to the U.S., the only place they call home.

Bush's Mideast policies have turned a brutal terrorist into an icon of resistance -- and made violent fundamentalism more popular.

While some Arab women embrace the rise of Islamist political parties, others fear they could end up groaning under Taliban-like regimes.

After years of special treatment under Saddam, Palestinians in Iraq are getting a brutal postwar payback.

A group of Iranian Kurds, who endured more than 20 years in a squalid Iraq refugee camp, are now squatting in a no man's land on the Jordanian border -- and threatening mass suicide if they are not resettled.

While Qatar welcomes Uncle Sam, Egyptian police torture antiwar protesters. If the war lasts long, some say, the scales may tip toward rage.

The Arab street that once rallied for Iraq is strangely quiet, although anger and frustration sometimes boil up.

Chemical weapons, civil war and Arab rage could turn an invasion into a disaster.

Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy.

The assassination of a Hamas chief -- along with many civilians -- reveals the prime minister's pathological fear that giving anything to the Palestinians will mean the end of Israel.

Keeping her clothes on, the banished Jordan takes the high, boring road; Uma Thurman dives for body parts. Plus: Naked Daryl Hannah to make a splash in England, and Eminem shows his wife the door.

Armed only with curiosity and a stained pair of pants, our correspondent tries to make sense of the Islamic Feast of the Sacrifice in Aqaba, Jordan.

President Clinton has little time left to improve his standing in history. Could foreign affairs, especially a negotiated peace in the Middle East, offer him a chance for salvation?

World leaders rush to pay tribute to King Hussein, but his widow, Queen Noor, deserves much of the credit for Jordan's transformation from police state to cradle of political freedom.

In one sign of the cost of to the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton has caved into the Israeli government and abandoned the peace process in the Middle East

The U.S. can't "go all the way" in Iraq because Saddam Hussein's neighbors need to keep him around.

Maxine Rose Schur discovers that at dusk, after the tourists have left, Jordan's ancient ruin comes to splendid life.

It is being called the worst fiasco in the history of Israel's once-vaunted intelligence service, the Mossad. It raises, once again, serious questions about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's mental fitness, provoked unprecedented expressions of disgust from the Clinton administration and left experienced observers to wonder what other disastrous pratfalls the Israeli leader has in store for the dying Middle East peace process.

Mindful of the fatalities and public relations disasters resulting from the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges, federal authorities have adopted a low-key approach to the standoff with the so-called "Freemen".