The Children of ISIS
Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?
Iraq War
After Years in Guantanamo, Ex-Detainees Find Little Solace in Uruguay
One man’s story.
Inside Baghdad's Brutal Battle Against ISIS
Even ISIS’s opponents are hard men who understand terror.
To Live and Die in Gitmo
What one sergeant says he saw before the alleged suicides of three detainees.
Isis: The Inside Story
An Islamic State senior commander reveals the terror group’s origins.
In and Out of Time in Iraq
An essay on PTSD.
Iraq: The New War
A 2003 essay that foreshadows the emergence of the Islamic State a decade later – an insurgency incited by American policy in Iraq during the early days of the war.
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.
Casualties of War
A couple’s only son is killed in Iraq.
The Interpreters
The full text of a 20,000-word ebook on the interpreters who worked alongside American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their fates once they were no longer of service.
Remember His Name
The life and death of Pat Tillman.
What We Left Behind
On the future of Iraq.
The Interpreters We Left Behind
The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Man in the Bomb Suit
Embedded with a U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad.
The story that inspired The Hurt Locker.
Rumsfeld's War and Its Consequences Now
A political history of Donald Rumsfeld.
Ring of Fire
Each soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan generated around 10 pounds of garbage per day. Most of that trash—along with used equipment and medical supplies and other wastes of war—was burned in open-air pits, emitting a toxic smoke that many soliders blame for their poor health today.
The War of Rape
Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.
A Soldier's Wife
A year and a half with Candace Desmond-Woods, whose husband, and Iraq war veteran, suffers from PTSD and alcoholism.
Michael Hastings' Dangerous Mind: Journalistic Star Was Loved, Feared and Haunted
The life and death of a reporter.
In Iraq, the Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn't Work, Except to Make Money
How a con man named James McCormick sold $38 million worth of phony bomb-detection devices to Iraqi authorities.
The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero
After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.
The Call of Battle
After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.
How A War Hero Became A Serial Bank Robber
An Iraq War veteran assuages his PTSD with bank heists.
In the Crosshairs
On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.
Iraq's Baby Noor
Born with spina bifida, Noor al-Zahra Haider entered the media spotlight in 2005 after U.S. troops arranged her life-saving surgery in America. This is what happened when she returned to Iraq.
