Shahab Ahmad

Over a 100 people have died in a recent flurry of attacks by the Afghan Taliban across the country. A suicide bombing on Saturday outside a bank in the southern city of Kandahar, which killed six people and wounded at least 24, was the latest…

Certain commentators have recently made the argument that Iran might back off should the U.S. decide to intervene in Syria. Up until now, it has been widely acknowledged that Iran has been supporting the Assad regime by providing diplomatic and…

Officials in Pakistan have overturned the jail sentence and ordered a retrial of a doctor who helped the CIA in their search for Osama bin Laden. Dr. Shakeel Afridi was charged with treason and tried under the tribal justice system, and was…

They say music transcends borders and boundaries. Who would have predicted that South Korean pop star Psy's hit "Gangnam Style" would one day make Palestinians and Israeli soldiers dance in union? While on their routine patrol of the city of Hebron…

The bulk of evidence proving the Assad regime's deployment of chemical weapons, which would provide legal justification for any western military action, has been been provided by Israeli military intelligence, the German magazine Focus reported. In…

Follow @policymic When she first became known to the world, Asma al-Assad, first lady of Syria, stood out for her efforts to put a twenty-first-century gloss on Middle Eastern dictatorship, a profession widely seen as hidebound and heavily…

On March 11 2012, American soldier Robert Bales stepped outside his base late at night and killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar. Nine children were among the dead. On Friday, he was sentenced to life in prison with no…

As the U.S. prepares to respond to Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons, an exclusive report published by Foreign Policy has brought to light the fact that the CIA knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks by Saddam Hussein…

Matthew Schrier was working as a freelance photographer when he was captured by Al-Qaeda-linked rebels last December. He was beaten and given electric shocks by the rebels, who also emptied his bank accounts and pretended to be by writing emails to…