Learning in a conservative setting
Deep in the misty hills of Burgundy, fervent young European Muslims are forging an Islam of their own. Depending on the point of view, they are either budding fundamentalists or...
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Islam shaping a new Europe
Butchered piglets hang in tidy rows at the open-air market, and shoppers haggle over cheese and oysters in a scene hardly altered since the last Bourbon king was buried at...
Yasser Arafat 1929 — 2004
Amid volleys of wild gunfire and pitched battles between Palestinian security forces and frenzied mourners, Yasser Arafat was laid to rest Friday in the scruffy military compound where Israel had...
U.S. jails Kurd it had given asylum
Follow the Red Arrow Highway up the lip of Lake Michigan, past the diners and the u-pick-'em blueberry patches, and you will find the place where for the last decade...
Najaf deal shows clout of ayatollah
BAGHDAD -- A frail, white-bearded cleric barely out of his sickbed proved to many Iraqis that he could accomplish in a few hours in Najaf what the tough-talking interim Iraqi...
Attack on major pipeline halts oil exports
Rebels intensified their assault on Iraq's economic lifeblood Wednesday, blasting a major pipeline severely enough to halt all oil exports for at least five days and killing the security chief...
For many Iraqis, abuse settles opinion of U.S.
The crowd outside the prison walls seethes, demanding to visit the thousands inside. Sunni and Shiite Muslims, engineers and farmers, mothers, uncles and militants are gathered on this scorching Friday....
Europe rejects alleged bin Laden truce offer
An audiotape purportedly by Osama bin Laden that was broadcast Thursday by Arab television channels offered a "truce" to European nations that remove their troops from Muslim nations. But opponents...
On the road to uncertainty
The future of Iraq arrived here in a torrent of tan and green steel last March as thousands of U.S. troops roared across the Kuwaiti border and down the broad...
UN envoy tries to bridge Iraq election issue
Less than a week after arriving in Iraq, a senior UN envoy pointed the way Friday to resolving a standoff between the U.S.-led occupation and Iraqi leaders over the timing...