Special Report: How a two-week army crackdown reignited Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis
- 25-Apr-2017
BALUKHALI CAMP, BANGLADESH: When army helicopters fired on Rahim’s village in northwest Myanmar one day last November, the Rohingya schoolteacher told his pregnant wife to take their three young daughters and leave. He stayed behind with his 72-year-old mother. At dawn the next morning soldiers encircled and then entered the village. Rahim and his mother crept […]
Special Report: Why Obama and other gun control advocates own stock in firearms makers
- 05-Feb-2016
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama might seem an unlikely investor in the firearms industry. But the U.S. president, a fierce advocate for gun regulation, has money in a pension fund that holds stock in gun and ammunition companies.
Special Report: How Iran's military chiefs operate in Iraq
- 24-Feb-2015
BAGHDAD: The face stares out from multiple billboards in central Baghdad, a grey-haired general casting a watchful eye across the Iraqi capital. This military commander is not Iraqi, though. He's Iranian.