Greg Myre appears in the following:
The Elusive Quest For An Iranian Moderate
Monday, June 17, 2013
Ever since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, the U.S. has been in search of moderate Iranian leaders who could steer the country away from its hostile standoff with America.
To cite one famous example, President Ronald Reagan's administration secretly sold weapons to Iran in the mid-1980s in the belief it could ...
5 Things To Know About Syria's Rebels
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Now that President Obama's administration says it's prepared to arm Syria's rebels, this raises a question relatively few people can answer: Who exactly are these guys?
The rebels have been fighting President Bashar Assad's regime for about two years, and more than 90,000 people have died in Syria's civil war. ...
You Face A U.S. Legal Problem. Where Should You Run?
Monday, June 10, 2013
Let's say you are an American facing prosecution and you want to escape the long arm of the American law. Where's the best place to go?
Iceland, perhaps, and we'll get to that in a moment.
Edward Snowden, who faces potential prosecution after declaring that he leaked details of a ...
Breaking Down Obama's New Blueprint For Fighting Terrorism
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Ever since the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. search for a coherent counterterrorism strategy has revolved around three basic questions:
1. How do we locate suspected terrorists?
2. Once located, how do we go after them?
3. If captured, what do we do with them?
In a major speech at ...
Welcome to 'Parallels,' NPR's International News Blog
Monday, May 13, 2013
Here's the paradox with international news.
In our wired and rapidly shrinking world, there is no distant war, no isolated economic crisis and no social trend that observes national borders.
When a building collapses in Bangladesh, photos of the dead and grieving appear instantly. When a battle takes place in ...
Boston, Bombs And Lessons From Israel
Sunday, April 21, 2013
As reporters in Jerusalem a decade ago, my wife, Jennifer Griffin, and I covered more than 100 suicide bombings over several blood-soaked years. The carnage defined our lives as we raced to blast sites, interviewed battered survivors in emergency rooms and tracked down the extremists behind the deadly attacks.
Our ...
Boston Bombings Point To Growing Threat Of Homegrown Terrorism
Saturday, April 20, 2013
U.S. security officials have been warning for years that one of their biggest challenges is detecting homegrown terrorists — extremists who grow up in America, or have lived here for years, know the customs, speak the language, blend in easily and can fly below the radar of law enforcement.
As ...
In A Long And Bloody War, A Potential Breakthrough
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Kurdish rebels have been fighting for nearly three decades against Turkish forces in the southeast corner of that nation. But the most prominent rebel leader said from prison Thursday that it was time for a "new era" that includes an immediate cease-fire.
Abdullah Ocalan heads the Kurdistan Workers ...
Has The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Been Downgraded?
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Every American president since Harry Truman has wrestled with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to no avail. Yet they keep trying based on the notion that the Middle East will never be calm until there's peace between these protagonists.
But as President Obama heads to Israel and the West Bank, expectations could ...