Sarah A. Topol

As the fighting in Donetsk continues, so does the battle over Ukraine's national language.

Rookie freelancers are risking their lives to cover the story of the Arab spring—with dangerous consequences.

Few people think Morsi can deliver the miracles he promised. But if he can't, they're all in serious trouble.

The current crackdown could spell the end of U.S. military assistance to Cairo.

The new year began in the Arab world's most populous country with an explosion of long-simmering sectarian tensions. Thirty minutes after midnight on Jan. 1, during a New Year's Eve mass, a bomb exploded in front of Saints Church in the northern port city of Alexandria, killing 21 worshipers and injuring about 100 others in the deadliest attack on Egypt's Christian minority in more than a decade.

Recently leaked diplomatic cables reveal that America's staunchest Arab ally—and the second-largest recipient of American military aid—is tenaciously resisting U.S. pleas to reform its military strategy to meet 21st-century threats.

With the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Egypt, the regime of President Hosni Mubarak sent a powerful message that it will brook no dissent as the country moves toward a possible presidential transition as early as next year.

Election season in Egypt is turning into a mysterious time. In recent weeks, posters reading GAMAL MUBARAK: THE DREAM OF THE POOR have sprung up in impoverished neighborhoods across the country. The odd thing is that Gamal's father, octogenarian President Hosni Mubarak, has never once hinted at what, or who, might follow his reign.