
Two Soldiers
Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.
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Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.
Dan Baum New Yorker Aug 2004 30min Permalink
The author and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Then Kamaran was captured by ISIS.
Sebastian Meyer Guernica Mar 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.
Adam Ciralsky Vanity Fair Jan 2010 25min Permalink
How a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad The Guardian Dec 2019 25min Permalink
Veteran Andy Chavez’s miraculous journey from coma to Wheelchair Games.
Nick Davidson Truly*Adventurous Nov 2019 20min Permalink
Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.
Chris Jones Esquire Mar 2008 1h5min Permalink
How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.
Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Apr 2012 30min Permalink
Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.
Jennifer Percy Smithsonian, Epic Jan 2019 30min Permalink
Published across three consecutive issues and later adapted into the book (and mini-series) Generation Kill, the story of bullets, bombs and a Marine platoon at war in Iraq.
Evan Wright Rolling Stone Jul 2003 1h55min Permalink
The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.
C.J. Chivers New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 45min Permalink
A Marine veteran of the Iraq War on battle and faith.
Phil Klay The American Scholar Dec 2017 20min Permalink
In October, Iraqi forces set out to retake Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities and ISIS’s biggest stronghold in the country. It would take them nine months and cost thousands of lives.
James Verini New York Times Magazine Jul 2017 45min Permalink
A sniper’s bullet and a long recovery.
Brian Mockenhaupt Esquire Apr 2006 35min Permalink
The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.
Lisa DePaulo GQ Jun 2005 25min Permalink
A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.
Jennifer Percy The New Republic Nov 2016 25min Permalink
Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Aug 2016 25min 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
The daily life of Saddam Hussein.
Mark Bowden The Atlantic May 2002 40min 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
Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.
Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Mar 2016 25min Permalink
On Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who pushed America to war. Chalabi died on Tuesday at the age of 71.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Jun 2004 40min Permalink
The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.
Zach Baron GQ Aug 2015 25min Permalink
Visiting with the Christian fighters defending Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.
Jen Percy The New Republic Aug 2015 25min Permalink
Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Mar 2015 45min Permalink