Apr 04 Hundreds Arrested in Afghan Coup Plot Authorities in Afghanistan arrested hundreds suspected of planning a bombing campaign against the government of interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. Continue reading
Apr 04 President Bush on the Middle East The full text of President Bush's speech announcing Sec. of State Colin Powell's mission to the Middle East, delivered Thursday in the White House Rose Garden. Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch Senator Perspectives on President Bush’s Speech Four U.S. senators reflect on President Bush's speech announcing that Sec.of State Colin Powell will visit the Mideast to work out details of an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. Continue watching
Apr 03 Egypt Limits Official Contact With Israel Egypt will limit its contact with Israel's government, but would not completely close diplomatic channels -- a move that comes as anger grows in the Arab world over Israel's deepening incursions into Palestinian-held territory. Continue reading
Apr 03 Israeli Tanks Roll Into Nablus; Bethlehem Standoff Continues Israeli forces Wednesday battled gunmen in the streets of Nablus and in Bethlehem, where scores of Palestinians took refuge in one of Christianity's holiest shrines, the Church of the Nativity. Continue reading
Apr 02 Mideast Violence Rages; Arafat Rejects Exile Offer At least 13 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier died today during fighting throughout the Palestinian territories. Continue reading
Apr 02 Watch Arafat and Sharon: Old Enemies Jim Lehrer discusses the personal animosity between Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon with journalists who have written extensively on the two men. Continue watching
Apr 01 Anti-Israel Protests Spread in Middle East, Asia As Israeli forces continued to press into parts of the West Bank, demonstrators took to the streets throughout the Middle East and other countries to protest Israel's latest effort to crack down on Palestinian militants and suicide bombers. Continue reading
Apr 01 Israeli Army Moves Into More West Bank Towns The Israeli Army moved into several more Palestinian-ruled towns Monday as part of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's campaign to uproot Palestinian militants. Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch Mideast Update Kwame Holman begins tonight's coverage of the escalating violence in the Middle East. Henry Kissinger and Zbignew Brzezinski on the Mideast Crisis New York Times correspondents Neil MacFarquhar and James Bennet on the Mideast Crisis. Continue watching