A Libyan General Accused of Crimes Against Humanity Was Arrested in Turin. Why Did Italy Let Him Go?
Libya’s Gen. Osama Njeem was wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity he committed at Mitiga Prison, where detainees — many of them migrants — were tortured, raped and extorted. Yet when he was arrested in Turin in 2025, Italy swiftly flew him home. Why?
Why Syria Is Training Women To Protect Its Tourists
Thousands of Syrian women signed up for a police force without knowing exactly why they were being recruited. Some were revolutionaries, some widows. One left a 2-month-old at home to train.
Remembering the Beirut Explosion
During the 2020 Beirut port blast, everyone in the city with a camera phone and social media account became a reporter of some sort, and the catastrophe opened the door to a new way of experiencing history. What the algorithm reshared became instant archival material that still has an important story to tell.
The Far Right Goes Into Overdrive in Michigan
Swastikas, a Nazi flag and anti-Muslim placards were on display at the recent “Christian Crusader March” organized by the pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionist and white nationalist Jake Lang in Dearborn, Michigan. The state's U.S. Senate race is testing the bounds of Islamophobia in U.S. politics.
How 9/11 Remade America
Shadi Hamid joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss how 9/11 affected generations of Americans, the attacks’ continuing impact on America and the Middle East, and his new book with Matthew Kaemingk, “Can Religion Save Democracy?”