Steve Coll in The New Yorker on Iran In his State of the Union, President Obama stated he would "take no options off the table" to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. "There is reason to ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Steve Coll about the parallels between Iraq and Iran when it comes to discussions of a potential war due to an adversarial country's weapons program. Will the ...

The rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the 20th century, and its repercussions have already marked the 21st. It's also a story that has never fully been told till now: ...

Steve Coll, managing editor of The Washington Post, discussed the developments in Central Asia that led to the 2001 terrorist attacks in Dodds Auditorium on Monday. In a lecture titled "The Roots of ...

Apple has challenged Exxon Mobil as the biggest American company, but Exxon Mobil deals with fuel for the energy that powers the world's economy — including Apple computers. Now it's become a sort of ...

Now that Osama bin Laden has been killed, al Qaeda watchers are going to have to start paying attention to his likely successor, Ayman al-Zawahri. The Egyptian-born surgeon and longtime Al Qaeda no. 2 ...