In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

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

The U.S. military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.

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.

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.

Boko Haram, climate change, predatory armies, and extreme hunger are converging on a marginalized population in Central Africa.

A case of mistaken identity leads to the prosecution of an ordinary Eritrean for human smuggling.

Every year, thousands of teenagers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.

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.

How war-crimes investigators captured top-secret documents tying the Syrian regime to mass murder.

The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.