Do We Need a "Death Penalty" for Negligent Oil Companies?
Two years after an explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and unleashed more than 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, deepwater drilling is back up at the levels it was before the April 20, 2010 accident...
April 19, 2012
Afghanistan's Opium Production on the Rise
Opium production will rise across Afghanistan in 2012, spreading to more parts of the country than it has in the last few years, according to a new UN assessment.
April 18, 2012
Q&A: What's Behind Chicago's Homicide Spike?
To understand more, FRONTLINE turned to a man with a unique perspective on ending Chicago's violence, "The Interrupter's" Tio Hardiman
April 17, 2012
Will Syrian Truce Hold?
Despite apprehensions in the lead-up to yesterday's deadline, a tenuous ceasefire agreement brokered by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan took effect in Syria this morning.
April 12, 2012
What Changes Will New U.S.-Afghan Night Raids Deal Bring?
After months of negotiations, the U.S. and Afghanistan reached an agreement on Sunday that will transfer more control of controversial night raid operations to Afghan forces, allowing the two governments to move ahead in negotiating a broader strategic-partnership agreement.
April 9, 2012
Afghanistan's 'Dancing Boys' Exploitation on the Rise
Bacha bazi -- an ancient practice in which young Afghan boys are sold by families to "entertain" men – is on the rise, according to a new report.
April 5, 2012
Dispute Over Detention Policy Delays Night Raids Agreement
The U.S. and Afghanistan are near reaching a deal that would give Kabul greater control over night raids — the controversial signature tactic of the U.S.-led kill/capture campaign in the country -- and allow the two governments to move ahead in negotiating a broader strategic-partnership agreement.
April 4, 2012
U.S. Offers Up to $10 Million Reward for Alleged Mumbai Mastermind
The day after the U.S. announced up to a $10 million reward "for information leading up to the arrest and conviction of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed," the suspected mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks brazenly took to the media to defend himself.
April 3, 2012
Ai Weiwei Pokes Fun at Gov't Surveillance -- with Webcams
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Ai Weiwei's arrest for "economic" crimes -- and China's most famous dissident artist continues to provoke the authorities.
April 3, 2012
"Syrian Society Is Beginning to Fall Apart"
Neighbors are turning on their neighbors, according to new accounts by refugees who have escaped Syria's bloody conflict for eastern Lebanon.
March 29, 2012
Docs Reveal FBI Used Muslim Outreach As Guise to Collect Intel
For at least four years, federal agents used Muslim community outreach meetings at mosques in Northern California as a guise to collect intelligence and catalog the identities, personal information, religious views and travel of religious leaders and congregants, FBI documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed yesterday.
March 28, 2012
The Covert Convert Behind the CIA's Drone Program
"He presides over a campaign that has killed thousands of Islamist militants and angered millions of Muslims," wrote The Washington Post's Gregg Miller, in a rare profile of the head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC). "But he is himself a convert to Islam."
March 26, 2012