January 30, 2012  |   Banner protesting austerity measures at roundabout in Brussels. NewsHour photo by Morgan Till. BRUSSELS, Belgium | Brussels is known for its pleasing mishmash of medieval, 17th century and Art Nouveau buildings. It's prized for moules-and-frites and Michelin-star gastronomic delights...

December 20, 2011  |   The story from Baghdad led Tuesday's New York Times: Arrest Warrant for Sunni Leader Spurs Iraq Crisis. Just one day after the last U.S. forces departed Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated government had ordered the arrest of the country's...

November 15, 2011  |   Women surveying in North East Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of The Asia Foundation. In the American coverage of the Afghan war -- firefights, bombings, political wrangling and U.S. casualties -- the sentiments of ordinary Afghans often get lost. But...

September 5, 2011  |   Streets of Cairo. Photo by Jana Mills via Flickr Creative Commons. CAIRO, EGYPT -- What a difference seven months make.  The Cairo I left on Feb. 12 -- the morning after Egypt's longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak abandoned the presidency...

August 3, 2011  |   It's been a breathtaking reversal of fortune in the timeless land of the Pharoahs. Six months ago this week, with hundreds of thousands of protestors demanding his ouster, a commanding Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak went on television to promise his...

June 23, 2011  |   Getty Images The anticipation was palpable as Gen. David Petraeus took his seat in the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing room Thursday afternoon for his confirmation session as the Leon Panetta's likely successor as director of the CIA. The much-decorated...

May 20, 2011  |   MANAMA, Bahrain | President Obama's speech Thursday night was intended to send a message to the Bahraini monarchy -- and its beleaguered opposition -- that U.S. interests in the Gulf will not trump its commitment to democratic change forever. The...

May 18, 2011  |   MANAMA -- In an interview conducted Tuesday night with little advance notice, Bahrain's foreign minister, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, was indirect but clear: However grateful the Bahraini monarchy is for U.S. support in its current crisis, it...

May 12, 2011  |   MANAMA | It's Thursday night in Bahrain, and we're in Manama's air-conditioned Seef Mall -- a gleaming glass and steel emporium of consumer pleasures, from its Costa Coffee shop to a haute couture Islamic dress store. There are women...

April 22, 2011  |   The last time I saw Mona Makram-Ebeid, she was sitting in the overstuffed opulence of a hotel cafe in Cairo, enjoying a cigarette with Newsweek's Paris bureau chief, Christopher Dickey, and a famed Egyptian writer. It was Day 13 of...

March 29, 2011  |   Commentators and bloggers are buzzing today with critiques of President Obama's speech on Libya. He's taking hits for the questions he didn't answer -- What happens if Gaddafi stays in power? -- and for the broader issues he didn't address...

March 15, 2011  |   As forces loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi drew closer Tuesday to encircling Libyan rebels in their capital of Benghazi, President Obama met with his top national security team to discuss what White House press secretary Jay Carney said were...

March 1, 2011  |   It was late in the evening in Zawiyah just west of Tripoli -- after the town had endured a horrifying assault by Libyan government forces earlier Tuesday -- when I finally reached someone who was willing to talk to me...

February 5, 2011  |   Ahmed Zewail and Margaret Warner CAIRO, Egypt | We're sitting in the lobby lounge of an upscale Cairo hotel, littered with road-weary journalists and private security personnel. Holding court in one corner is the 1999 Nobel Prize winner for...

January 18, 2011  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable('news01s4751q1019',482,304,{pap_usecache: true}); //--><!]]> SEOUL, South Korea | On the eve of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington -- with the North Korea issue near the top of the agenda between him and President Obama -- I sat down...

January 15, 2011  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable('news01s4740q1019',482,304,{pap_usecache: true}); //--><!]]> SEOUL, South Korea | After last year's lethal attacks on a South Korean warship and civilian-populated island - and with thousands of North Korea's artillery pieces and much of its million-man army just 30 miles up...

January 13, 2011  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s4733q101c', ' JzZklVIYFyo ', '29'); If Defense Secretary Robert Gates' prediction this week is correct, and North Korea is developing a missile -- nuclear or otherwise -- that can hit the United States, U.S. and allied forces are prepared...

January 13, 2011  |   South Koreans enter 2011 still smarting from two North Korean attacks last year -- on a warship in March and an island in November -- that together killed 50 of their citizens. We've been asking South Koreans how they now...

January 10, 2011  |   Map of Odusan Unification Observatory courtesy of ROK Drop TONG-IL JEONMANGDAE, South Korea | "Look, there it is. That's North Korea," says Lee Hoon, standing with me and provincial Gov. Kim Moon-Soo on the observation platform of a huge...

January 5, 2011  |   One of the many camera counters at I-Park mall in Seoul SEOUL, South Korea | In search of a memory card for our camera, we stumbled into the I-Park mall, a dazzling cornucopia of electronic gear. There are eight...

November 30, 2010  |   Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before a bilateral meeting on Nov. 29. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) "Do I look like a dangerous man?" Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu said with a...

November 20, 2010  |   President Obama at press conference in Portugal (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) LISBON, Portugal | White House aides are touting this NATO summit trip as a huge win for President Obama. And so is he. "We've just concluded an incredibly productive...

November 19, 2010  |   Pastry store manager Marco Lume gives his perspective on the economy. LISBON, Portugal | At first blush, Lisbon doesn't look like the capital of a country in financial distress. It sports an impressive profile of 18th century elegance and...

November 18, 2010  |   The press filing center at the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) LISBON, Portugal | President Obama is in Lisbon, hoping to rack up -- in a jam- packed 30 hours of meetings -- a higher batting...

November 10, 2010  |   The headlines from an extensive poll of Afghans released yesterday were all-but-unanimous: "Afghans are more optimistic than last year." They were drawn from the results to the famous "right track-wrong track" question widely used here and abroad to gauge...

November 4, 2010  |   Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician, was held by Colombia's notorious FARC rebels for more than six years. In July 2008, she was freed in a daring military rescue. We talked to her recently about the lessons she learned about how...

October 15, 2010  |   This hasn't been a great week for China's Communist Party leaders in the PR department, as they gather for a big party confab in Beijing today. Yes, they're flush with the glow from high-octane economy and their new assertiveness on...

October 6, 2010  |   As tensions have increased between the United States and Pakistan in recent days -- symbolized by the Pakistan government's closing of a key border crossing for NATO supplies into Afghanistan -- a White House report has become public and could...

September 3, 2010  |   First, accept the fact that you're going to feel skuzzy from the moment you alight from the helicopter in a cloud of dust at some remote U.S. military base -- windblown, sweaty, and gritty. For supplies, just think camping trip...

September 2, 2010  |   BAGHDAD | We're winding up our trip in Iraq after nearly three weeks of reporting here, and we've received questions from many of you. Many wanted to learn more about Iraq's security and the role of private contractors. Others asked...

August 30, 2010  |   MOSUL, Iraq | When the Americans arrived, they found Iraq chock-a-block with Soviet-era armaments -- tanks, guns, mortar rounds and ammunition -- left over from the days when Saddam Hussein was one of Moscow's best arms customers. U.S. soldiers found...

August 25, 2010  |   Iraqi Gen. Hamid Mohsin Al-Taey on a patrol in the Mosul region MOSUL, Iraq | We're out in a nine-humvee convoy with Federal Police Gen. Hamid Mohsin Al-Taey, whose Baghdad-based unit has the job of weeding anti-government insurgents out...

August 24, 2010  |   Iraqis' feelings about their country's future are best reflected in what they say about their own personal dreams. The younger ones appear less scarred -- their parents' and grandparents' generations seem far more so. Here's a sampling of people we've...

August 18, 2010  |   Producer John Zito, Margaret Warner and Doura power station director Ghazi Abdulaziz. Photo by Larisa Epatko BAGHDAD | "Let me tell you a joke," the man in the blue jumpsuit and white hard hat said to me Wednesday. "A...

August 17, 2010  |   BAGHDAD, Iraq | The Royal Jordanian flight from Amman no longer has to make a missile-avoiding corkscrew landing on the runway of Baghdad International Airport. And though our security detail had us don 10-pound body armor jackets for the ride...

August 16, 2010  |   AMMAN, Jordan | On Sunday night, we made a quick stop-over in Jordan on our way to Iraq. Our mission for the next three weeks: to see what Iraq looks like after seven years of war and U.S. occupation. Does...

June 24, 2010  |   As we flew into Rio de Janeiro Wednesday, the city's jagged emerald mountains, sapphire blue waters and ribbon of white beaches seemed as pristine and beautiful as advertised, a natural paradise for residents and vacationers alike. Yet Thursday morning,...

June 4, 2010  |   Over 20 years, through Republican and Democratic administrations, Aaron David Miller witnessed the fits and starts of the Mideast peace process while serving as an adviser to six secretaries of states. Miller, who is now a Woodrow Wilson Center public...

May 28, 2010  |   When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came before a crowd of foreign policy players and former players, journalists and wonks to lay out the Obama administration's new National Security Strategy Thursday, she was self-assured and in command, talking about...

April 27, 2010  |   Margaret Warner is reporting from the Vatican this week on the fallout from the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal. On Tuesday's NewsHour, you can watch her full interview with Cardinal William Levada, one of the top Vatican officials charged with...

April 25, 2010  |   Pope Benedict XVI, right, at a digital media conference. Photo by Morgan Till. VATICAN CITY | We've come to Rome for a week to explore how the new wave in the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal is being seen...

March 22, 2010  |   ABYAN PROVINCE, YEMEN - This past weekend, in southern Yemen, we went where most foreigners haven't been allowed to travel since late 2008 -- Abyan province, east of the port city of Aden on the Arabian Sea. It's been...

March 16, 2010  |   Yemeni security forces are working on honing their counterterrorism tactics in the battle against a resurgent al-Qaeda affiliate in the region -- AQAP, or Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. It was AQAP that recruited and trained the would-be Christmas Day...

March 12, 2010  |   SANA'A, Yemen | The stars are brilliant against the inky sky as we get off the plane late at night in Yemen. "Welcome to Sana'a," says our local fixer, a former journalist turned literature teacher, with a wide smile. The...

March 3, 2010  |   On Wednesday afternoon, Associated Press reporter Michael Warren joined us by satellite from Concepcion, Chile, where he has been reporting on the aftermath of the massive earthquake there and the numerous strong aftershocks. "People are jittery," Warren told us, detailing...

January 25, 2010  |   The Christmas Day bomb plot against a U.S. bound airliner triggered soul-searching within the administration and on Capitol Hill over why the multiple bits of troubling intelligence about alleged Nigerian perpetrator Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab weren't pieced together in time to...

January 14, 2010  |   In all the public statements we've heard about the Haitian tragedy -- from President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or USAID chief Rajiv Shah -- no one had mentioned a key concern underlying the aggressive U.S. response. But...

January 13, 2010  |   Early Wednesday morning, the U.S. government planned to take an aerial assessment of the damage in Haiti's earthquake zone near the capital Port-au-Prince and send search and rescue teams, along with food, water and temporary shelters. Assistant Secretary of State...

December 31, 2009  |   In a year that took me from the NewsHour studio to trouble spots abroad, the most searing impressions come from two trips to Afghanistan. The first trip was for three-plus weeks in February and March, to take stock of the...

December 8, 2009  |   After weeks of unrelenting prediction, debate and commentary in Washington over what President Obama was doing about troops for Afghanistan, it is refreshing -- if somewhat unsettling -- to be in Europe. Despite the deep unpopularity of the Afghan conflict...

December 5, 2009  |   The small village west of London my crew and I visited today was bustling with Saturday shoppers doing errands for Christmas, and for their daily lives. The Salvation Army Santas were ringing their bells, and greens and lights festooned the...

December 3, 2009  |   It was nearly 1 p.m. Thursday before Secretary Clinton got to her 757 airplane at Andrews AFB, looking remarkably unbattered after a day-and-a-half of being grilled by Senate and House members doubtful about the wisdom of the surge-and-withdraw course President...