The Albanian Muslim rebels wreaking havoc in Macedonia are not by any means all hardened Islamic extremists. But their complex composition makes them an even harder problem for the Macedonian government, the European nations and the United States to solve, according to a leading expert on the conflict.

Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia and its subsequent recognition by the West could spell a new, disruptive era of separatist civil wars.

Watch Italy; it's our laboratory in dealing with radical Muslims.

The Iraqi people have surely suffered terribly, but whether the war has rendered many of them in need of therapy is another matter entirely.

Radio Free Europe continues to broadcast independent news to at leasttwenty-one countries and remains as important now as itdidduring the Cold War.

The assassination of Serbia's prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, by a sharpshooter in broad daylight in front of a government building on Wednesday, signals that all is not well within the borders of the metropolitan power of the Balkans.

The international community is creating a dynamic that threatens to exacerbate the ambiguity concerning Kosovo's political future, rather than resolve it.

An imposed settlement of the Kosovo question and the partitioning of Serbia's sovereign territory without its consent is not in the interest of the United States.