A review of Ali Sadeghi's Persia: The Cradle of Infidels.

The attack on the British compound suggests that the Iranian government fears economic isolation much more than diplomatic isolation. Perhaps it is time to enforce both.

Under increasing pressure from religious parties and the military and intelligence services, the Pakistan People's Party has lost the resolve to fight terrorism and promote democracy.

Western liberalism and democracy have found few takers in the Middle East. Instead, the people of the region have chased totalitarian fantasies.

There is cause for celebration in the death of a deeply evil man with much blood on his hands and more innocent deaths in his mind, but no cause to waver in our determination to press forward in this conflict against a determined foe.

The Canadian government announced Friday that it will apologize and compensate suspected terrorist Maher Arar. While this agreement settles the case, it does not resolve it.

Don't call us secular, bin Laden, don't call us unbelievers, and don"t call us infidels.

The United Nations has recently ratcheted up its criticism of the United States' decision to withhold humanitarian aid to parts of Somalia controlled by the Islamist terror group al Shabaab.