Abandoned in Iraq: Inside Two Soldiers' Harrowing Escape
Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.
Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Aug 2016 25min Permalink
Why the war in Syria can only get worse.
Max Fisher New York Times Aug 2016 10min Permalink
He was just another coked-up agent (repping the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.
Evan Wright Vanity Fair Mar 2007 1h35min Permalink
Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion on national security. An investigation into whether it has worked.
Steven Brill The Atlantic Aug 2016 1h10min Permalink
A full-issue length, 42,000-word history of the dissolution of the Middle East, from the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago until present.
Scott Anderson New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 15min Permalink
Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
Madeleine Blais Tropic Jan 1979 20min Permalink
The Piano Man of Yarmouk fled the ruins of Damascus to a life of criss-crossing Germany playing songs about his old neighborhood to huge crowds. Because of refugee law, he is paid nothing.
Anne Barnard New York Times Aug 2016 Permalink
The daily life of Saddam Hussein.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic May 2002 40min Permalink
How ISIS trains the children it captures.
Katrin Kuntz Der Spiegel Jul 2016 10min Permalink
Can new, immersive film technology increase our empathy?
Abe Streep Wired Jul 2016 Permalink
Syrian orphans become child laborers in Turkey.
Claas Relotius Der Spiegel Jul 2016 25min Permalink
In the face of death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent two decades exhuming the victims of a “dirty” civil war. Now his work might help bring justice for their murders.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Jun 2016 10min Permalink
Over the past five years, the Syrian government has killed almost 700 medical personnel. Inside the race to spread medical knowledge as the Assad regime erases it.
Ben Taub New Yorker Jun 2016 25min Permalink
A former Ohio National Guardsman recalls being dunked on by LeBron James as a teenager — and how the James helped get him through the Iraq War.
Hugh Martin Grantland Jun 2014 15min Permalink
“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”
Phil Klay The Brookings Institute May 2016 35min Permalink
Did Afghan forces target the M.S.F. hospital?
A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.
Mark MacKinnon The Globe and Mail May 2016 30min Permalink
Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?
May Jeong The Intercept Apr 2016 25min Permalink
What happened to the Afghan timber worker after a 2005 battle was made into a book and feature film.
R.M. Schneiderman Newsweek May 2016 Permalink
On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.
Kelly McEvers Lenny Apr 2016 Permalink
Treasure hunters still scour Lower Silesia in search of legendary wartime riches.
Jake Halpern New Yorker May 2016 30min Permalink
Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.
Davy Rothbart GQ Apr 2016 20min Permalink
Why ISIS is winning the social media war.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2016 Permalink
The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.
Ben Taub New Yorker Jun 2015 35min Permalink
The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.
Matthew Cole, Jeremy Scahill The Intercept Mar 2016 15min Permalink