The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death.

How a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.

Veteran Andy Chavez’s miraculous journey from coma to Wheelchair Games.

As ISIS retreats, new horrors emerge for a Sunni family.

The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.

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.

For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.

Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.

Kurdish revolutionaries helped the U.S. expel the Islamic State from its capital city. Will we soon abandon them?

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.

What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.

The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.

A sniper’s bullet and a long recovery.

The Mosul Dam is failing. A breach would cause a masssive wave that could kill as many as a million and a half people.

With the Kurdish pesh merga on the road to Mosul.

Life in Mosul.

Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.

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.

The daily life of Saddam Hussein.

Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

A former prostitute turned arctivist and her taxi-driver husband go undercover in Iraq’s brothels.

The system of organized sexual slavery at the heart of ISIS.

An interview with a man who organized suicide bombings for ISIS.

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.