Joseph Krauss

AJDABIYA, Libya --The hunt for a sniper began after a single shot echoed across thisdeserted Libyan town. It ended with a Libyan rebel falling wounded after a hailof bullets from his disorganised comrades.Ajdabiya has been all but deserted since an…

Nearly everyone who could read the Hebrew verses carved into the walls of Ezekiel's tomb left Iraq almost 60 years ago, but their memory is preserved in what is today a revered Muslim shrine.Between 1948 and 1951 nearly all of Iraq's 2,500-year-old…

SDEROT, Israel (AFP) – Abu Yusef has heard the roar of Israeli warplanes bombing his hometown in Gaza, but he supports the Jewish state as much as he did when he first became an informer on his fellow Palestinians."If it were up to me Israel would…

The green dump truck stood out against the brown mud brick homes and shops in the bustling market, and then in a flash everything was dust and blood and thunder.The Iraq war had just blown into one of the poorest and most isolated parts of the…

Joseph Krauss Agence France Presse SAMARRA, Iraq: On a dark street in the restive Iraqi town of Samarra a young man masked with a bandana and a baseball cap looks over his shoulder before pulling out an aerosol can and spray-painting a wall. A US…

SAMARRA, Iraq, 9 May 2007 — The day before he was killed in a bomb attack, Col. Jalil Al-Dulaimi was woken from his midday nap by four US soldiers who had come to encourage his efforts to create a local police force capable of bringing law and order…

Egyptian mini-bus driver, Emad el-Kabir, 21, whom police sodomized, filmed his torture and transmitted it to the cell phones of the victim's friends in order to humiliate him, looks on behind the bars inside a courtroom on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007…

SANAA, Yemen -- For 27-year-old Nabil Subaye, an independent freelance journalist, the last six months have been rough. Since writing a series of articles last summer accusing Yemen's longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh of grooming his son for…