Despite the survival of Mahmoud Abbas and many of his supporters, the Palestinian situation still looks bleak.

Jordan needs a strong leader to navigate through trying times as it deals with democratization and faces a resurgent Saddam, an emerging PLO entity, and a regional climate.

It ismost likely that bin Laden operated in conjunction with a state--namely Iraq.

Bin Laden may become a modern-day version of a vanished imam, a lost spiritual guide whose hoped-for return will empower the oppressed and vanquish the strong.

Among Arabs themselves, knowing who the good guys are has long been a devilishly difficult task, since the great divide--believer and infidel--is usually of little use in separating sides.

Newspapers are making public possible war plans should the United States decide to attack Iraq while Bush administration strategists consider timing

If there is near-universal agreement that Sept. 11 changed America, there is a wide range of opinion about what that transformation consists of.

The war on terror is not a war between the West and Islam--it is a civil war within Islam about the future of the Islamic world.