This volume presents eleven chapters of main political developments in several Middle East countries as told by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, ranging from reports about Israel's War of Independence to Civil War incidents in Lebanon, the upcoming of the fundamental Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the terror system of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is professor emeritus at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany.