Critics have branded him weak and feckless on foreign policy, but an inside look reveals how the U.S. president faced down the war machine urging him to instigate military action against the Syrian regime

The optimism that followed Egypt’s 2011 revolution has been shattered following the removal of the democratically elected government. How did it come to this? And what happens next?

The American government is still holding about 60 prisoners without charge at the Afghan prison

Rolling Stone's 2008 journey into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan

The bloody uprising in Syria has resulted in an exodus to neighboring Lebanon. And the fate of the Syrian diaspora may have far-reaching consequences for the fate of the region

In 1993, Israel and the PLO thrashed out the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements during secret negotiations in Oslo. But the hope it gave Palestinians for a peaceful end to the Israeli Occupation has proved false.

Thousands of those who fled the violence in Sudan made the hazardous journey to Israel via Egypt hoping for a new start. Now they are in danger of being sent home – where another civil war looms large

The Muslim Brotherhood is doing its best to shed its conservative Islamist image, pushing young female members to the forefront. But is this just a ploy to appease critics?

It’s been almost a year since the heroic efforts of the Egyptian people succeeded in overthrowing Hosni Mubarak. Now they’re rising up again, to battle the armed forces who have failed to manage the post-revolution transition to power

What led the president to overrule his top military advisers and intervene in Libya – and what it says about his evolution as commander in chief

The Middle East is rife with uprisings calling for regime change. In Palestine, though, activists are seeking unity as the divisions between Fatah and Hamas threaten to tear the country apart  

Inside the training camps of the men – and boys – fighting to bring down Qaddafi

How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them

Inside Egypt’s revolution and the last days of Mubarak

November’s election saw Egyptian democracy sink to new depths