If you endured beatings, intimidation and arrests to bring about the end of a dictator's 30-year reign only to decide between his former crony and an Islamist to take over the country, you'd be upset too.
Thousands of Aghans protested at Bagram Air Base, the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, on Tuesday, as local laborers found out that NATO personnel had been burning Korans at the base.
Counter-terrorism experts said Al Qaeda wouldn't vanish in a sweeping final act but in a gradual, winnowing decline. A new report out of Southeast Asia gives a sketch of what that looks like.
An Islamist movement in Algeria has lead to the shuttering of the country's oldest bars, the rise of fly-by-night networks of suppliers, and secret sales of liquor in people's homes--all signs that the country is in the middle of its own prohibition era.
Salman Rushdie has canceled a planned appearance at a major literary festival in India after receiving a tip that his life may be in danger.
The Middle Eastern nation has designs on bridging East-West gaps in business, and, with the World Cup, in sports. But permissive Western attitudes toward liquor won't fly with locals.
The draw of all these Republican debates is the chance to see how the candidates act unscripted, and Tuesday night we learned that under pressure, some forget their name while others spill state secrets.
The office of French magazine Charlie Hebdo was destroyed after the satirical paper put a drawing of Muhammad on the cover and jokingly named him its "editor-in-chief."
Radical settlers target both Palestinians and the Israeli government
The Fox News head takes issue with the AP's characterization of people praying in mosques
A recently defunct FBI program had a rather simplistic view of Islam
The agency wants to "make sure we are doing the right thing"
The most powerful predictor of mistrusting Muslims: trusting Fox News
People, unsurprisingly, are worked up about this
Ramadan has renewed a longstanding debates in Morocco and Saudi Arabia
Is the press not properly vetting our politicians' faith?
The university says Subramanian Swamy has a right to free speech
Even as they report discrimination, a new Gallup poll find Muslims are "thriving"
Controversy sparks debate over free speech in academia
On Norway's far-right, Geoff Dyer, and Republican fanaticism
Al Qaeda has to walk a fine line when recruiting kids through cartoons
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