Ayman al-Zawahiri, left, and Osama bin Laden (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera/APTN)
World News & Opinion
Al Qaida’s racist insult
What Osama bin Laden's No. 2 hoped to accomplish by calling Obama a 'house Negro'
Obama's Russia problem
Can the president-elect avoid another Cold War by finding new ways to handle Moscow?
How to fight pirates
What the world can do to stop Somali buccaneers
Talking with the Taliban
What should Obama do if Afghanistan’s Karzai negotiates with the enemy?
What Iraq did for Obama
Who wins in the Iraq-U.S. pact for U.S. troops to leave by 2012?
Curing AIDS?
A German doctor stops the disease in one patient
Saudi Arabia pushes tolerance
Is its U.N. forum a sincere stab at interfaith dialogue?
The Taiwan-China thaw
Politics, trade, and corruption collide in Taipei
Reassessing the Russia-Georgia war
Why it’s important to figure out which country started the fighting
The Bali bombers and martyrdom
Has killing the three Islamist terrorists helped their cause?
How Obama should handle Iran
Is now the time for direct talks with Tehran, or for getting the world to impose sanctions?
Obama’s Russia challenge
Is Medvedev giving Obama his first foreign crisis?
How the world sees Obama
What other countries expect from the U.S. president-elect
Ahmadinejad's trouble at home
How will a feud with Iran's parliament affect the country's president in next year's re-election bid?




