ISIS vs. the Kurds.

On the trail of Austin Tice and the late James Foley, freelance journalists who were kidnapped in Syria in 2012.

On the coast of Abu Dhabi, gilded outposts of the Louvre, the Guggenheim and New York University are being built by foreign workers who cannot leave and are paid half of what they were promised.

Accused of being part of a terror cell at age 12, Gitmo’s youngest prisoner recounts his life

“You Palestinians can never see the fucking big picture.”

A trip to the capital of Yemen.

A profile of Afghanistan’s outgoing president.

The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.

Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.

Inside Harun Yahya, which promotes a “sexed-up Disney version of Islam,” publishes a 800-page creationist atlas, runs a surreal TV station, and has films it members in orgies that often include high-ranking politicians.

Iraq, ten years later: Sectarian assassins, posing as bodyguards, are baffled by an egg-laying rabbit. Translated by Jonathan Wright.

"The rabbit had been with us for a month and I had already spent two months with Salsal in this fancy villa in the north of the Green Zone. The villa was detached, surrounded by a high wall and with a gate fitted with a sophisticated electronic security system. We didn’t know when zero hour would come. Salsal was a professional, whereas they called me duckling because this was my first operation."

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

How the Syrian president stays in power.

The fight to vaccinate children in the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of an attempt to eradicate polio worldwide.

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.

A pair of undercover journalists, a boatload of refugees, 200 miles of ocean and a journey that has claimed more than a thousand lives.

A family’s journey from Armenia to Syria and back again.

How citizen journalists are covering the war.

On driving (and walking) in the Middle East – from Syria to Lebanon, across Saudi Arabia to Dammam, in a taxi through war-torn Beirut.

Translation of an exclusive interview with Syrian President Bashar al_Assad:

“Have they not realised that since the Vietnam War, all the wars their predecessors have waged have failed? Have they not learned that they have gained nothing from these wars but the destruction of the countries they fought, which has had a destabilising effect on the Middle East and other parts of the world? Have they not comprehended that all of these wars have not made people in the region appreciate them or believe in their policies?”

How a Peace Corps volunteer turned a high school basketball squad into Afghanistan’s national team.

How a corporate network engineer became one of Aleppo’s most prolific weapons manufacturers.

An inside account of the Egyptian leader’s last day in power.