Special Reports
Special Report: Return to Baghdad, epicenter of Islam's growing divide
BAGHDAD - The last time I left Baghdad I was on a stretcher.
Special Report: The Bundesbank's fight to be heard
FRANKFURT - Meeting in Bratislava's neo-classical Reduta concert hall on May 2 this year, the 23 men who form the European Central Bank's policymaking Governing Council were divided.
Insight: From remote Mauritania, hacker fights for Islam worldwide
DAKAR - In Nouakchott, a dusty city wedged between the Atlantic ocean and western dunes of the Sahara, a young hip-hop fan coordinates a diverse group of hackers targeting websites worldwide in the name of Islam.
Special Report: GM takes on the Toyota Republic
JAKARTA - Indonesia is Toyota country. After more than 40 years here, Toyota Motor Corp and affiliates including Daihatsu have 450 dealerships and a 54 percent share of the market.
Special Report: Myanmar gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks
YANGON - The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed.
Insight: Kuwaitis campaign privately to arm Syrian rebels
KUWAIT - At a traditional evening meeting known as a "diwaniya", Kuwaiti men drop banknotes into a box, opening a campaign to arm up to 12,000 anti-government fighters in Syria. A new Mercedes is parked outside to be auctioned off for cash.
Insight: Britain's bankers look forward to Carney era
LONDON/OTTAWA - To many in the City of London financial centre, incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney looks and sounds like one of them.
Insight: Educated with a dead-beat job - the unseen legacy of Europe's crisis
BRUSSELS - As the first anniversary of her graduation in eco-tourism and cultural history approaches, Linnea Borjars remains jobless and frustrated.
Insight: Ex-Qaeda allies ready to fight for Mursi in Luxor
LUXOR, Egypt - When President Mohamed Mursi made a hardline Islamist governor of Luxor, it seemed his latest folly to many in this city, and across Egypt, who depend on tourists already scared off by unrest since the revolution.
Special Report: Deepening ethnic rifts reshape Syria's towns
IDLIB PROVINCE, Syria - The villages that dot the valleys and terraced hills of Syria's northwest used to epitomize the country's diversity. Each one was dominated by a different religion or sect. The settlements coexisted - sometimes peacefully, sometimes less so - for centuries, a patchwork of distinct but interwoven communities that, for many Syrians, was central to the nation's identity.
Taliban attack on supply base in Afghan capital kills six
KABUL - Taliban insurgents including a suicide bomber in a truck killed six people in an attack on a foreign logistics and supply company in Kabul on Tuesday, police said, the latest in a string of daring assaults in the Afghan capital.


