His own muezzin: Muammar el Qaddafi is lecturing Switzerland on its minaret ban. (right, Artyom Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty Images, and Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Libya's Muammar Qaddafi is a study in contradictions. The former "Mad Dog of the Middle...
Bring It On: The Algerian football team (or soccer team, in Americanspeak), will face the United States in a World Cup match in June. (Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Algeria is the only Middle East nation that managed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup...
Cannon Fodder: West Point cadets waiting to hear Barack Obama tell them how he'll be doing more of the same in Afghanistan, with more of them. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
It's not the most upbeat way to warm up for President Obama's most important...
Hard at Work: Afghan soldiers on a U.S. Army base. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
It's not the minimum of 40,000 troops Gen. Stanley McChrystal wanted. It's not the rejection of additional troops, let alone the withdrawal of troops, that those who've...
Verboten: Swiss voters approved a referendum, floated by the ultra-right-wing People's Party, to ban minarets. (rytc via flickr)
How can 59 million people be so dumb, Britain's Daily Mail famously asked in a day-after headline of the re-election of...
