Comments from Muslims, analysts and Obama ahead of his speech in Cairo. ...more

June 4, 2009

A suicide car bomber targeting a convoy of foreign troops exploded about 200 yards outside the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least four Afghan bystanders as people entered the compound for a Thanksgiving Day race. ...more

November 28, 2008

Afghan police say a suicide car bomb has exploded about 200 yards outside the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in an attack against an American convoy. ...more

November 26, 2008

An elderly couple from a rural Southern province in China visit the big city of Beijing for the first time. There, in the Imperial Gardens, they see something they have only heard about: Westerners. ...more

August 2, 2008

What's rising faster than gas prices this summer? Americans' worries about them. ...more

July 24, 2008

Huddled in the gym locker room of the Hotel Serena with five other women, Suzanne Griffin could hear the explosions and gunfire - so close that it chipped away the ceiling above her. ...more

January 15, 2008

Chaos begets peace. At least it does at the Parbawatiya Buddhist Center in Safety Harbor. These days, members of the center are building a 940-square-foot environmentally friendly meditation hall on their property at Sixth Avenue South in Safety Harbor. They are also remodeling their present building. ...more

December 28, 2007

The Dec. 13 Tribune editorial about violating free speech on the University of Florida campus was spot-on. ...more

December 20, 2007

Recently I found myself at lunch with members of the Tampa Bay community, discussing the topic of Islam and the West. As an American and a Muslim, I am in an interesting position to discuss the issue. ...more

November 19, 2007