The Cherokee Nation's decision to revoke the tribal citizenship of about 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by the tribe is a moral low point in modern Cherokee history and places the tribe in violation of a 140-year-old federal treaty…

It may be the least likely literary spat in history. Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist famous for his rottweiler attacks on religion, has poured scorn on Peter Kay, the northern comic best known for a gentle joke about garlic bre…

SITTING in an office plastered with Ottoman pennants, portraits of Ataturk and the Turkish flag, Kemal Kerincsiz, a lawyer, says his mission in life is to protect the Turkish nation from “Western imperialism and global forces that want to …

The foreigners could well have been kidnapped by Afars acting on their own. They have never shaken off their label as one of Africa's fiercest people. Romantics, such as the late British explorer Wilfred Thesiger, alleged that they were wo…

Ian Thomson reviews Nada by Carmen Laforet tr by Edith Grossman One of the great novels of 1940s Spain, Nada unfolds in post-Civil War Barcelona, when the city is cowed by the Franco dictatorship and Catholic respectability. Into this Cata…

By Salad Duhul Associated Press Wednesday, March 7, 2007; Page A14 MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 6 -- More than a dozen mortar shells slammed into Mogadishu's airport Tuesday shortly after the first major contingent of Ugandan peacekeepers lan…

Accidental casualties can do a lot to help or hurt NATO's mission here ― and in a war of public relations, reputation means a lot. NATO needs to recognize, with one voice, that its strategic imperative to defeat the Taliban and its moral i…

No End in Sight, a documentary by Charles Ferguson to be released shortly, builds on a series of books, notably Bob Woodward's State of Denial, that reveal a broken system of war management and co-ordination around the invasion of Iraq.Mr …

Luke Harding in Moscow Wednesday March 7, 2007 Russia is to replace its military doctrine with a more hawkish version that boldly identifies Nato and the west as its greatest danger.In a statement posted on its website, Russia's powerful s…

Robert Tait in Tehran Wednesday March 7, 2007 The bitter rivalry between Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the country's leading elder statesman has erupted into a public struggle for control over economic policy.Hashemi Rafsanjan…