The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
When American and Iraqi soldiers were exposed to leftover chemical munitions from Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran, the Pentagon kept silent.
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War
Whoever Saves a Life
Seven days with Syria’s first responders.
Interview: I Was A Separatist Fighter In Ukraine
A conversation with one of Russia’s “little green men”: a twenty-four-year-old recruited to fight in Eastern Ukraine.
The Interpreters
On the interpreters who worked alongside American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their fates once their services were no longer needed.
The Hunt for Boko Haram
How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim north and Christian south resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.
