Oscar-nominated director Hany Abu-Assad's new movie spins a strange but true fable of Gaza rubble and TV stardom

Female soldiers were supposed to be a civilizing influence on the military. Then came Abu Ghraib.

In one swift move, Bernanke rescued not just Wall Street, but Shanghai, London, Mumbai and Tokyo too.

The president's sudden, passionate intervention surprised everyone. But Israeli officials doubt he's in it for the long haul.

Braving death, a few Shiites hit the streets to turn out the vote -- and inspire one flag-waving Iraqi to welcome an American reporter.

Montgomery Blair Sibley, the DC Madam's lawyer, is fighting to release the escort service's phone records

A U.S. military translator offers a searing account of the abuses at Guantanamo in "Inside the Wire."

Responses to Ann Marlowe on Raphael Patai's influential book "The Arab Mind" run the gamut from healthy skepticism to outright sarcasm -- "Hello! Ms. Marlowe, it's called a discourse."

CIA veteran Bob Baer says torture was forbidden when he worked for the agency. "Now contractors are sent out to torture people to death and then hide it."

Israel's government issued a denial that an Al Jazeera producer dismissed as a "complete lie"

Some 600 youths from across the continent have joined Muslim extremists fighting to topple Syria’s government

Why has the mainstream media ignored the White House media access scandal?

From Facebook to Twitter and once again on Craigslist, a new study shows adult advertising permeates the Web