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  • "The mother of all photo ops"

    Bush says he's "optimistic" about Middle East peace. Where have we heard that before?
    By Tim Grieve November 27, 2007

  • The real two-state solution

    President Bush's peace summit for Israelis and Palestinians ignores a painful truth -- one that we are already living in the Middle East.
    By Aluf Benn November 26, 2007

  • Mike Huckabee's Middle East miscue

    In a Sunday morning interview, the cheerful conservative muffs an easy foreign-policy exam.
    By Walter Shapiro November 25, 2007

  • Bush and Musharraf's grand illusion

    Democracy for Pakistan was never the deal -- and as Musharraf's latest power grab throws his nation into turmoil, Bush will gladly go along.
    By Juan Cole November 6, 2007

  • "Seven countries in five years"

    Wesley Clark's new memoir casts more light on the Bush administration's secret strategies for regime change in Iran and elsewhere.
    By Joe Conason October 12, 2007

  • Israel's rising right wing

    Together, an enigmatic billionaire and a resurgent Bibi Netanyahu could put Israel on the war path. Dick Cheney, AIPAC and Iran are all watching closely.
    By Gregory Levey October 9, 2007

  • How the Democrats blew it

    The Iraq debacle handed Democrats a golden opportunity to deal the GOP a mortal blow and change America's flawed Mideast policies. They played it safe.
    By Gary Kamiya October 2, 2007

  • Blackwater by the numbers

    A congressional memo looks into the private security contractor's activities in Iraq, the State Department's responses and taxpayer costs.
    October 2, 2007

  • Ahmadinejad's New York state of mind

    My time with the Iranian president this week underscored how the U.S. media has overlooked his political savvy.
    By Hooman Majd September 26, 2007

  • Ahmadinejad, big man on campus

    The Iranian leader's visit to Columbia provoked outcry, support and a twist on free speech: "We're glad you're here -- so we can tell you you're an asshole."
    By Alex Koppelman and Tracee Herbaugh September 25, 2007

  • Leaving Baghdad

    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?
    By Riverbend September 21, 2007

  • Guns, not roses, for Iraq

    The U.S. is selling billions in weapons to Iraq. Is the Pentagon's plan making the country secure or arming it to the teeth for civil war?
    By Mark Benjamin September 18, 2007

  • Bush's tangled arms deal

    By selling weapons to "moderate" states, Bush would again be playing puppet master and jerking around the Middle East with disastrous consequences.
    By Gary Kamiya August 14, 2007

  • Leave the Muslim world alone

    Bush's moralistic Middle East crusade has backfired, creating more enemies than it destroys. It's time for a tactical retreat.
    By Gary Kamiya July 17, 2007

  • Bush's big Iran problem

    The White House is foolish not to recognize that the only way out of the Iraq mess now includes serious negotiations with Iran.
    By Hooman Majd July 16, 2007

  • In the wonderland of ruins

    Turkey's history is even more rich and complicated than its convoluted present.
    By Gary Kamiya July 10, 2007

  • Israel's Olmert rises from the rubble

    Despite the Gaza disaster and poll numbers that make George Bush look beloved by comparison, the shrewd prime minister has renewed his grip on power.
    By Gregory Levey July 3, 2007

  • Surging toward disaster in Iraq

    As the U.S. takes sides in Iraq's splintering civil war, a top Republican warns Bush's policy will fail.
    By Juan Cole June 28, 2007

  • Spinning the disaster in Gaza

    Bush and Olmert scramble to prop up Abbas, but the Hamas takeover boosts Iran and leaves hopes for a Palestinian state in tatters.
    By Aluf Benn June 20, 2007

  • "Hamastan" vs. "Fatahstan"

    Hamas' violent takeover in Gaza leaves the Palestinian territories divided, and U.S. and Israeli strategy under a cloud.
    By Christoph Schult June 19, 2007

  • Rethinking Israel's David-and-Goliath past

    Little-noticed details in declassified U.S. documents indicate that Israel's Six-Day War may not have been a war of necessity.
    By Sandy Tolan June 4, 2007

  • How Bush's war bolstered Syria

    The chaos in Iraq has emboldened Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime and given Syria new power to meddle in the Middle East.
    By Mohamad Bazzi May 31, 2007

  • Danish cartoons, no longer the rage

    Danish politics lurched right as the scandal provoked Muslims worldwide. But now Danes are fed up with their own "Bush-lite" -- and are backing a Muslim immigrant.
    By Jytte Klausen May 29, 2007

  • Wolfowitz's tomb

    A lead architect of the Iraq war, he believed shock and awe would transform the Middle East. But his policies failed -- along with his tenure at the World Bank.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 24, 2007

  • Afghanistan ousts outspoken lawmaker

    Malalai Joya, an activist determined to fight human rights abuses, is booted from parliament.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory May 21, 2007
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