Charles Recknagel is standards editor for RFE/RL.
A Pashtun tribe in Pakistan has risen against a Taliban-allied militia it once felt forced to accommodate.
Under the Taliban, morality police patrolled Afghan weddings. Now a draft law threatens to bring the morality patrols back.
Japan says if you live 30 kilometers from its damaged nuclear reactor, you are safe. So, why are people worldwide so worried?
Why is it so difficult to make and keep peace in Pakistan's tribal areas? The case of Kurram Agency, where a key peace accord suddenly looks shaky, is instructive.
Rescue teams trying to secure Japan's earthquake-damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are finding the task is getting harder, not easier, with time.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi doesn't have many friends in the world. But he can count on Serbia's ultranationalists.
Everyone wants to put a label on the Libya operation. Some call it humanitarian intervention. Some call it imperialism.
The rebel leadership in Libya desperately wants other countries to recognize it as a government but only France has done so. Why?
Opposition organizers called for a day of protests in Saudi Arabia on March 11. The biggest protests were likely to be in oil-rich east of the country where a largely Shi'ite population has long felt discriminated against.
What are the world's options for containing the escalating conflict in Libya - and how ready is the international community to go beyond talk to action?
Oil prices are rising rapidly amid the unrest in Libya, a major oil exporter. And there is little sign they may come down again soon.
A major exhibition of traditional Central Asian ikat robes and fabrics is drawing visitors to Washington D.C.'s Textile Museum.
Egypt is not a big oil producer. But the crisis in Cairo has sent global oil prices sharply higher. Elsewhere around the region, stock prices have mostly fallen. Economic experts weigh in on why this is happening.
The Pakistani government hopes passions will cool following the assassination of Salman Taseer. That's not happening.
Afghans protest the alleged mistreatment of their countrymen in Iran, including the killing of migrants trying to cross the border. What's behind the shootings?
The water carriers of Aqibi Silo are hardly the only child laborers in Kabul. But the fact that they are missing school to deliver water that should be delivered by public utilities outrages the people of their neighborhood.
The killing of Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan's Punjab Province, has removed one of the country's staunchest opponents of religious extremism.
The Afghan Peace Council has sent a delegation to Islamabad for meetings with Pakistani officials. The visit is meant to build support in Pakistan for Kabul's efforts to hold reconciliation talks with the Taliban.
President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is a developing democracy. But does he mean democracy in the same way the West does?
A 45-year-old mother of two has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy. But the real danger Aasia Bibi faces may not come from her court case.
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