By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, February 26, 2007; A01 American military commanders in Iraq describe the security plan they began implementing in mid-February as a rising tide: a gradual influx of thousands of U.S…

For the time being, officials say, the White House has ruled out unilateral strikes against the training camps that American spy satellites are monitoring in North Waziristan, in Pakistan’s tribal areas on the border. The fear is that such…

TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE A Biography Author Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell seems to believe that most readers will bring a similarly blank slate to his latest work, a biography of the Haitian leader who led "the only successful slave …

So what's the really big whoop? "Les Bienveillantes" is clunkily written -- it often feels as if Littell is just regurgitating the enormous amount of research he obviously did -- and paradoxically uninvolving, considering its topic. Narrat…

Hizbollah's unwillingness to disarm remains a significant factor at the root of that political schism.The opposition is led by Hizbollah, which proved its military prowess in last summer's 34-day war with Israel. The movement is the only b…

Twenty-eight years after Pol Pot's brutal regime was toppled, the prospect of a long-awaited genocide trial of its senior leaders offers a faint glimmer of hope for Om Som. With her family she was evacuated from Phnom Penh when it was clea…

WASHINGTON: Somehow, the United States has maneuvered itself into a position were most Shiite and most Sunni, most Arabs and most Persians alike seem to regard America as their enemy.In fact, one of the few things the warring factions have…

LONDON: U.S. stocks plummeted Tuesday as concerns that the Chinese and American economies were cooling and fears that shares were overvalued sparked a global market decline.At one point the Dow industrial average was down more than 546 poi…

After the ruling, the Serbian president, Boris Tadic, urged the Serbian Parliament to condemn the Srebrenica massacre, but that may be difficult to obtain because nationalist groups continue to deny it. He said it was “very important for S…

THE HAGUE, Feb. 26 -- The United Nations' highest court on Monday cleared Serbia of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia's bloody 1992-95 war. But it said the country's former government should have stopped the July 1995 slaughter of more th…

The International Court of Justice in The Hague said the massacre of 8,000 men in Srebrenica was genocide, but Belgrade was not directly responsible.But it said Serbia broke international law by failing to stop the killings.Serbia's presid…

The new director of national intelligence said yesterday that the United States is "very concerned" that Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership are attempting to rebuild their terrorist network and establish training camps in a region…

KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday outside the main gate of the United States military base at Bagram while Vice President Dick Cheney was inside the base. Cheney was not hurt in the attack.The explosion killed and wounded a n…

Ten years ago, having to explain to an international audience who Papon was, the formula which came spontaneously to my mind was "anti-Schindler." Steven Spielberg's film, "Schindler's List," had worldwide repercussions. Its hero, a German…

At the time, he said, Harun was a minister of state for the interior, with the "critical" job of head of the "Darfur Security Desk" which meant that state and local military, police and intelligence agencies reported to him. The prosecutor…

Rice said invitees to the conference will include Iraq's "immediate neighbors" in the Middle East, the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (France, Britain, China, Russia and the United States) as well as Canada, Germany, Italy …

Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, on Tuesday welcomed a diplomatic initiative by the Iraqi government to call at least two international conferences on its future that would provide an opportunity for the US to tackle its disputes w…

THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court's prosecutor named on Tuesday a former Sudanese junior minister as a suspect in war crimes in Darfur, saying he helped recruit janjaweed militias responsible for murders, rapes and torture.Ahmed …

Substantial British reinforcements are being sent to Afghanistan, consisting of 1,400 more troops, heavy armour and rockets and additional ground-attack aircraft and helicopters.Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, told the Commons that the …

Some readers may be familiar with Sierra Leone thanks to the work of the tremendously talented Aminatta Forna, who last year came out with "Ancestor Stones," a fictionalized account of a modernized expat woman who returns to her grandfathe…

In Sudan, successive rebel movements -- first in the south and now in Darfur -- have voiced similar grievances against the government. The ruling party in Khartoum, they say, hoards power and wealth at the expense of the rest of the countr…

BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 ― A raid on a Shiite weapons cache in the southern city of Hilla one week ago is providing what American officials call the best evidence yet that the deadliest roadside bombs in Iraq are manufactured in Iran, but critics …

JERUSALEM, Feb. 25 ― The Israeli Army put the large West Bank city of Nablus under curfew on Sunday in one of the biggest military operations there in two years.The Israeli forces discovered an explosives laboratory in Nablus, the second o…

In one of his last moves as director of national intelligence before leaving for the State Department, John D. Negroponte signed off on a new and unusually detailed policy directive that sets out common principles for intelligence analysis…

The draft oil law says that all revenues from current and future oil fields will be collected by the central government and redistributed to regional or provincial governments by population, in theory ensuring an equitable distribution of …

SAMARRA, IraqTHE letter from Al Qaeda in Iraq to the members of the local police was clear.Come to the mosque and swear allegiance on the Koran to Al Qaeda, the letter warned, or you will die and your family will be slaughtered. Also, brin…

WASHINGTON ― Serious new divisions have emerged between the Bush administration and its Iraqi allies over the Baghdad government's refusal to enact a reform that the White House considers crucial to its new strategy for bringing the countr…

America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic…

Three Arab states in the Persian Gulf would be willing to allow the Israel Air force to enter their airspace in order to reach Iran in case of an attack on its nuclear facilities, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa reported on Sunday.Accordin…

As the West tries desperately to lure Iran from the brink of nuclear crisis, a man once regarded as America's nemesis is voicing similar thoughts from within the country itself.Behzad Nabavi was the Ayatollah Khomeini's chief negotiator du…