Defense

From Chennai to Srinagar, funeral prayers for bin Laden divided India's Muslims in May 2011 — Geelani's call, Omar Abdullah's rebuke, and quiet resistance.

May 7, 2011 · 2 min read

A catch-up phone call, a courier who drove 90 minutes to use a cellphone — and a tall man pacing a walled courtyard. How the CIA zeroed in on Abbottabad.

May 6, 2011 · 1 min read

After the SEALs left Abbottabad, cameras got inside bin Laden's compound: bloodstained floors, scattered belongings, and the wreckage of the burned helicopter.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

After the Abbottabad raid, Salman Rushdie called for Pakistan to be declared a terrorist state — the sharpest version of a question Washington was dodging.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

After the Abbottabad raid, Pakistan faced pointed questions from Washington and humiliation at home — the competence-or-complicity trap the ISI couldn't escape.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

Why was bin Laden called 'Geronimo'? The raid code word, what it actually meant, and the backlash from Native Americans who found it offensive.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

Days after the Abbottabad raid, a pro-Taliban party held Pakistan's first public rally honoring bin Laden — small in size, heavy in symbolism.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

The trail to bin Laden began with a courier's pseudonym and ended at an oversized compound in Abbottabad. How U.S. intelligence connected the dots.

May 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in Abbottabad in May 2011. The raid, the announcement, and what his death did and didn't change.

May 1, 2011 · 1 min read

On January 25, 2011, the Day of Rage brought tens of thousands of Egyptians into the streets. How Tunisia lit the fuse under Mubarak's 30-year rule.

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

How Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2010 sparked the Tunisian revolution -- and the Arab Spring.

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

In October 2010, separatist leader Geelani and author Arundhati Roy shared a stage in Delhi demanding 'azadi' for Kashmir — and ignited a national firestorm.

December 28, 2010 · 1 min read

Pakistan's own army website listed an ISI operative who died in a Delhi hospital in 2007 - an accidental admission Islamabad never acknowledged.

December 15, 2010 · 1 min read

In December 2010, Pakistani papers ran fake WikiLeaks cables smearing India's military — until the Guardian's database search found nothing.

December 10, 2010 · 1 min read

China licensed Russia’s Su-27, then built and exported its own cheaper J-11. On reverse engineering as industrial strategy — and Moscow’s fury.

December 6, 2010 · 1 min read

The WikiLeaks cables revealed Arab leaders privately urging the U.S. to strike Iran's nuclear program — while saying otherwise in public.

November 29, 2010 · 2 min read

India and China: deepening trade on one axis, unresolved borders and strategic rivalry on the other. On the no war, no peace relationship.

November 21, 2010 · 1 min read

In late 2010, reports said al-Qaeda had tasked Ilyas Kashmiri with its Kashmir and India operations — symbolism or escalation? On the debate.

November 21, 2010 · 1 min read

China displayed 25+ drone designs at the 2010 Zhuhai air show — including the jet-powered WJ-600. A look at Beijing's unmanned ambitions.

November 20, 2010 · 1 min read

India and Pakistan agreed to tone down the aggressive Wagah border ceremony after soldiers complained the high goose-stepping was wrecking their knees.

November 18, 2010 · 1 min read