A Street Fight Turns to a Gunbattle, and
Sectarian Tensions Increase
June 22, 2007

Religious and political tensions are soaring in Lebanon as violence increases. The last month has seen fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants and a number of assassinations. Meanwhile, political deadlock continues to polarize the population. Correspondent Ben Gilbert reports on the growing divisions among the peoples of Lebanon.

Student Elections in Lebanon Reflect
Larger Divisions
November 17, 2006

Political factions in Lebanon have become more polarized since Hezbollah gained new power in its war with Israel. Correspondent Ben Gilbert reports from Beirut on a political quagmire in the making, and its reflection in university student elections.

Iraqi military food scandal
July 17, 2006

Another food-related scandal has its grip on the Iraqi government. Lawmakers there are investigating contractors who provide food and other life support services to the Iraqi military. Ben Gilbert reports.

An Eye for an Eye: The dead do tell
stories--of abduction, torture,
execution--And it's not just the
insurgents who are on a killing streak
February 12, 2006

Death here comes in many ways: by sniper fire, suicide bomber, roadside explosives. By military shootouts. None, however, is as personal, as chillingly intimate, as the killings by sectarian assassins and gangsters whose victims, mainly civilians, turn up daily along Baghdad's streets, floating down the Tigris River, or placed in shallow ditches on the city's outskirts.

Iraq's Mean Streets: U.S. forces battle
on In the heart of insurgent territory
May 21, 2006

The war in Iraq seems to be everywhere and nowhere all at once, judging from the daily score card of car bombings, kidnappings, and attacks against oil pipelines and whatever else presents a target of opportunity. But if there's a front line in the fight between American forces and insurgents, it runs straight through Ramadi's devastated downtown.

Unexploded cluster bombs in Lebanon
continue to kill and maim
October 25, 2007

Israel's war with Hezbollah ended 14 months ago, but people in Lebanon are still suffering the consequences of that conflict. Civilians are being killed and maimed by unexploded cluster bombs. Correspondent Ben Gilbert reports from Beirut.