Misrata -- The military police volunteers line up single file and stream toward a concrete wall defining the perimeter of the school-turned-security training center, located on the outskirts of Misrata, Libya's besieged and ravaged western port (...)
Dafneya (20km west of Misrata) - The Libyan rebels strengthened their territorial hold west of Misrata on Friday, marking one week since securing entrenched positions along a north-south highway roughly 20km from the city center.
The rag-tag group (...)
Benghazi - In the chief stronghold of the Libyan revolutionaries, Benghazi authorities are converting former icons of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi's brutal repression into vital tools of the new country they envision freed from despotic (...)
Ajdabiya – When widespread demonstrations erupted throughout Libya in February, Suleiman Refida and his four brothers immediately chose to help spearhead the revolutionary cause despite the jeopardy it brought to the livelihood of their tightly knit (...)
The clock on the wall of Luang Prabang's northern bus terminal read 10:00 a.m.
“What time will the bus leave?” I asked the clerk.
“Bus leaves 9 o'clock,” the visibly jaded, or perhaps organically sedated, Laotian responded as he pointed to my right. (...)
We sat in the anteroom of the Chinese-style guesthouse, tense, returning the stony glares of the longyi garbed Burmese men with crimson stained teeth, a by-product of the incessant chewing of betel nut, evidently vogue in the Union of Myanmar. Our (...)
The ominous, low grumble of a bomber, slowly and methodically patrolling the vast skies above, ushers in the Iraqi soldier's final moments. His fate is emphasized by the dissipating daylight. The barren expanse of land surrounding the soldier and (...)
Amid recent escalation in the war of words between northern and southern officials in Sudan's ever-embattled political landscape, indicators suggest the country remains dismally ill prepared for the south Sudanese referendum slated to take place in (...)
Navigating Lebanon's political landscape can be an overwhelming undertaking. The small Arab nation—nestled between the Mediterranean Sea, Israel and Syria—struggles to maintain its label as the “Paris of the East” while still reeling from the bloody (...)
Washington DC--Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian crusader for political change and emergent de facto leader of the opposition, concluded a series of public appearances in Boston today amid widespread controversy and media scrutiny.
ElBaradei met with 70 (...)