Politics

The 2011 Chicago trial of Tahawwur Rana put David Headley on the stand — airing evidence about the 26/11 attacks India couldn't get through its own courts.

May 14, 2011 · 1 min read

Bin Laden's brief to his Yemeni matchmaker: a wife who was pious, dutiful, young — but above all patient. The story of Amal al-Sadah, married at 17.

May 11, 2011 · 1 min read

Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaeda chief's fourth son, denounced the Abbottabad raid as 'criminal' and reserved the right to sue the U.S. over his father's killing.

May 11, 2011 · 1 min read

After the 2011 raid, officials warned of retaliation and transit systems went on edge. When does 'see something, say something' become counterproductive?

May 9, 2011 · 1 min read

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

The UAE began issuing stapled visas to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir residents, including the region's 'prime minister' — echoing China's earlier row with India.

May 6, 2011 · 1 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 leaving California's governorship, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to the screen with The Last Stand and Escape Plan — a comeback built on range, age,

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

Bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout sat about a mile from Pakistan's elite military academy — a custom-built compound with 14-foot walls and no phone or internet.

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

Days before the 2011 royal wedding, the Kate-vs-Diana comparison industry ran hot. Why mapping one woman onto another said more about the public.

April 30, 2011 · 1 min read

Boston Globe documents revealed Barack Obama Sr. was pushed out of Harvard in 1964 — complicating the family history the president had written about.

April 30, 2011 · 1 min read

As Pope John Paul II was beatified in 2011, Indian clergy recalled his unfulfilled wish to bathe in the Ganga — a window on his interfaith imagination.

April 30, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, quiet Hindu-Muslim conversations sought a way past the Ayodhya deadlock — the civil-society side of a dispute courts alone couldn't settle.

April 30, 2011 · 1 min read