Babak Dehghanpisheh

With U.S. troops set to leave Baghdad, Sunnis and Shiites race toward a bloody showdown.

The president's chief of staff is the man behind the throne—and the Supreme Leader wants him gone.

As opposition groups in Jordan ask for more reforms, the country's prime minister–designate will need to walk a careful line.

The Revolutionary Guard unit behind Iran's alleged plot to snuff the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S.

Billionaire Najib Mikati chose to dive into Lebanon's cutthroat political world.

FIFA says headscarves are unsafe. Iran is crying foul. Inside the controversy.

Yemen's president of more than three decades is badly wounded. Is a billionaire about to take his seat?

So far, the fight for Libya has been an armed showdown between Gaddafi and the rebels. This conflict is about to get much more complicated.

They have arms. They hate Gaddafi. But can a quickly constituted crew down a dictator?

To see firsthand how the momentous changes in Egypt are playing out, a NEWSWEEK writer and a photographer traveled by train from Alexandria to Aswan, a journey of roughly 1,100 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea through the Sahara.

A look at the military men who will be running the country in the wake of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation.

In Cairo's Tahrir Square, where hundreds of thousands of protesters met Mubarak's announcement with jeers, many Egyptians said their leader must bow out immediately.

From Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen, a youthful uprising is challenging the Arab world's rulers. But if the old order falls, what will take its place?

For nearly two weeks, pundits have speculated whether the ousting of Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali would lead to further unrest in the region. The answer came today as thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Cairo and smaller Egyptian cities to chant slogans against President Hosni Mubarak and demand more rights.

President Ben Ali and his family ran a 'mafia state,' until an uprising drove them out.

In a week of tumult since the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, one of the most significant developments has been the new freedom for religious Tunisians to preach and worship openly. But could that bring about another Iran?

A natural-gas bonanza is disputed by Lebanon—and Hizbullah.

At about the same time that Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri was meeting President Obama in Washington on Wednesday morning, trouble was brewing back home: Hizbullah and its allies withdrew 11 ministers from the cabinet, effectively causing Lebanon's government to collapse. As political hardball goes, this is a pretty difficult move to top.

After more than three years of self-imposed exile in Iran, the Shiite leader is back in the holy city of Najaf. Sadr kept a relatively low profile during his time in Iran, but he is unlikely to do the same in his home country.

The repercussions of the New Year's Eve bombing in Alexandria have spread far beyond Egypt's borders and have left many Christians in the region wondering what lies ahead.

Hizbullah's second in command speaks on the investigation into Rafik Hariri's death and Lebanon's ties to Iran.

Years after his father's murder, Lebanon's prime minister wants both justice and stability.

The Iranian president showed his Donald Trump flair by firing Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki while he was on an official visit to Senegal, in a high-profile ouster unusual in Iran's opaque political scene.

Someone is killing Iran's nuclear scientists. But a computer worm may be the scarier threat.

In the past week, the Egyptian resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh has been hit by a spate of gruesome shark attacks. The shark is still on the loose, prompting some Egyptian officials to accuse outside forces of sabotaging the country's booming tourism industry.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is the biggest opposition group running in the country's parliamentary elections this week, but don't expect to see its name on the ballot: the movement is banned and its candidates run as independents.

Voters say Muslim Brotherhood M.P.s have not delivered promised services, but opposition leaders argue that the government would not let them run for the local councils that really get the job done.

A letter written by a parliamentary committee in Iran indicates that the Majlis, or Parliament, had considered "the questioning and impeachment" of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but refrained because of "orders" given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for cooperation between the government and the Majlis.

Egypt's nonviolent Islamists are in disarray. That's not entirely their fault: in advance of parliamentary elections slated for Nov. 28, President Hosni Mubarak's government has detained nearly 600 Muslim Brotherhood members and threatened many others.

After a marathon seven-hour negotiating session Wednesday night, Iraq's fickle politicians finally came up with a breakthrough deal to form a government, more than eight months after elections.