The road to the Tree of Life in Bahrain feels like a wrong turn, with one long stretch of the Sakhir Desert folding into another. When the 32-foot Persian mesquite tree finally appears, about 25 miles ...

As U.S. forces continue long deployments overseas, the children who follow them are learning to build lives far from home.

At the beach, a young man wearing a faux Givenchy T-shirt and skinny jeans stands on the back of a horse. With one hand, he reaches for the reins on the stallion, whose legs are partially submerged in ...

Deborah Wilson of Winston-Salem, who has been a fourth-grade teacher in Bahrain for the past year and a half, has been mostly holed up since the protests began in the country last week. She lives in ...