A profile of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prime minister of Turkey.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.

On the lives of street kids.

Inside the White House debate over Syria.

On dissident filmmakers in Syria.

The origin story of the C.I.A.’s covert drone war, which began with the 2004 killing of a Pashtun militant, the result of a secret deal for access to Pakistani airspace.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

The author tells the story of his kidnapping by militants in Syria.

In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.

Chasing the embers of hedonism in Morocco and Tunisia, as Salafi mobs and new regimes wash over the brothels, beaches, and nightclubs of what used to be the Arab world’s most liberal cities.

In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.

Why Iran punished two leading AIDS doctors.

The rise of Israel’s far right.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

An investigation into the death of a Canadian soldier in Lebanon.

A trip to a grave in Damascus as shelling started in Homs.

Elegy for Aleppo.

An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.

The Syrian civil war crosses into Lebanon.

Life and death in an underground economy.

Zaranj: the bloody border of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

On living in Saudi Arabia.

A profile of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister.

Iran’s sex-obsessed old guard reacts to a state where “the majority of the population is young.… Young people by nature are horny. Because they are horny, they like to watch satellite channels where there are films or programs they can jerk off to.… We have to do something about satellite television to keep society free from this horny jerk-off situation.”

A clandestine meeting between Western journalists and Hezbollah fighters in a Beirut strip mall.