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A New Path to Mideast Peace: Make Jobs Not War

While Arab and Israeli peace negotiators expend their energy trying not to bolt from their seats in exasperation, business men and women on both sides of the divide think they may just have found a way to peace that will prove faster, more entertaining, and definitely more profit …

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Could Iraq Surge Success, Paradoxically, Benefit Obama?

Sen. John McCain's best chance of victory may lie in championing the hugely unpopular war in Iraq. But the surge's success could also undermine the effectiveness of McCain's uncompromising rhetoric on the war.

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Evidence Points to Routine Use of Torture by Ugandan Government

WASHINGTON -- In April 2003, in Baghdad, Army Specialist Garth Stewart stepped on a land mine. Today, Stewart is a poster boy for the Army's latest generation of "intelligent" robotic limbs that move and flex like real limbs.

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Who Killed Terrorist Mastermind Imad Moughniyah?

As Hezbollah prepares its response, probably with a politically popular attack against Israel, those in the know look elsewhere, at the many victims of Moughniyah's acts, and wonder who was really responsible for his end.

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What's the Administration's Plan B in Pakistan?

In the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, the Bush administration's initial reaction did not inspire confidence that they had a Plan B if their strategy to broker a power-sharing deal between Musharraf and Bhutto failed.

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'Merida Initiative' Would Provide Counter-Drug Aid to Mexico, but Congress Remains Skeptical

WASHINGTON - It remains unclear whether Congress will support the Bush administration's request for an initial $550 million to help Mexico and other Latin American countries beef up their law enforcement and militaries in the fight against drug cartels and other organized crime.

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The United States Should Learn to Live with the New Russia

America needs Russian resources, and Russia needs American technology and investment. Throwing out the 50-year aberration of the Cold War, America and Russia have historically been friends, not enemies. Let's keep it that way.

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Armenian Genocide: the Lobbying Behind the Congressional Resolution

How did the world's most powerful body of lawmakers come to feel compelled to register a position on the Armenian genocide, an event that happened almost a century ago? By some accounts, the answer is simple: lobbying.

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Sex in Ramallah: Between Islam and Globalization

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- On first glance, the city of Ramallah in the West Bank appears boring: conservative and chaste. Most women wear headscarves and quickly avert their eyes when men are watching. There is nothing flirtatious about the gesture.

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VIDEO: Afghanistan's Police Force Now Targeted by Taliban

Afghan police are dying at a record rate this year. As the Taliban target the force, the Afghan government is struggling to provide recruits with proper pay and equipment. World Politics Review contributor Jason Motlagh reports from Afghanistan.

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The Last Jew in Afghanistan Has No Plans to Leave

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The first question Zebulon Simentov asked his uninvited guest, eyes wide open at the prospect: "Are you Jewish?" There was a tinge of disappointment when the reply came back negative, but the last Jew standing in Afghanistan didn't miss a beat.

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Victory in Rare Dutch Army Fighting Comes as Dutch Government Reconsiders Afghan Mission

TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan -- On June 15, a suicide bomber struck a Dutch army education delegation in the town of Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, killing one Dutch soldier and 11 Afghan children.

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Shades of Justice: Scenes of Law, Order and Reality in Iraq

On a cool evening in March, 2006, I toured a makeshift prison on an Iraqi army base in northwestern Baghdad, not far from the dim chamber where Saddam Hussein would later be executed.

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Iraq Reconciliation Conference Scheduled, 'Baghdad Declaration' in the Works

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has rescheduled for Nov. 4 the repeatedly postponed all-parties national reconciliation conference, seen as crucial to salvage rapidly diminishing hopes for a national accord in that war torn country. A U.N.

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So Far, Coupl Hasn't Helped Violence in Thailand's South

BANGKOK, Thailand -- For army conscript Pramote Wannasuk, 22, and villager Dison Mansu, 36, the military coup in Thailand and all it promises for positive change came too late.

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