The City of Broken Men
Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.
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Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.
Devin Friedman GQ Jul 2008 30min Permalink
A prescient take on what the US invasion of Iraq would mean for both countries.
James Fallows The Atlantic Nov 2002 40min Permalink
The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Paul Solotaroff Men's Journal Apr 2014 20min Permalink
A reporter makes it his mission to track down all 42 members of a platoon after their service in Iraq.
Christopher Buchanan Frontline May 2010 45min Permalink
A decorated Iraq war veteran with PTSD kills his brother and himself after a high-speed chase near the Grand Canyon.
William Finnegan New Yorker Sep 2008 30min Permalink
A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.
Luke Mogelson New Yorker Jan 2016 35min 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
In the early years of the Iraq war, the U.S. military developed a technology so secret that soldiers would refuse to acknowledge its existence, and reporters mentioning the gear were promptly escorted out of the country. That equipment—a radio-frequency jammer—was upgraded several times, and eventually robbed the Iraq insurgency of its most potent weapon, the remote-controlled bomb.
Noah Shachtman Wired Jun 2011 25min Permalink
Movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to connect with viewers, but video games on the topic have broken sales records.
Kurdistan is the safest and most stable region in Iraq and at the center of its modern history is Amna Surak Prison, ground zero for both a genocide and an uprising.
Christopher Watt Maisonneuve Jul 2008 15min Permalink
How an Iraqi expat conned the United States, without ever once being interviewed by an American official, into making the case that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. “Believe me, there was no other way to bring about freedom to Iraq.”
Helen Pidd, Martin Chulov The Guardian Feb 2011 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
What if soldiers from ‘Kill Team’ (and others who have murdered innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq) aren’t simply the “few bad apples” that military writes them off as?
Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine Apr 2011 1h15min Permalink
In trailers just minutes from the Vegas Strip, Air Force pilots control predators over Iraq and Afghanistan. A case study in the marvels—and limits—of modern military technology.
Robert Kaplan The Atlantic Sep 2006 10min Permalink
In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it—or rather, so much less.
Alex von Tunzelmann Guardian Jul 2021 20min Permalink
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.
Katie Drummond The Verge Oct 2013 Permalink
“Unfortunately, after having spent 33 hours over the course of a year interviewing Mr. Rumsfeld, I fear I know less about the origins of the Iraq war than when I started.”
Errol Morris New York Times Mar 2014 50min Permalink
400,000 Wiki-leaked reports that confirm the minute-by-minute misadventures of a “military at war with its own inner demons” in the unforgiving terrain of Iraq.
Spiegel Staff Der Spiegel Oct 2010 35min 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
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
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.
In January 2009, a U.S. platoon came under rocket attack in Iraq. Two years later, how the event changed the soldiers’ lives.
Daniel Zwerdling, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Mar 2011 40min Permalink
From the Tower of Babel to the birthplace of Abraham, from Saddam’s ruined palaces to fortified blast-proof checkpoints, a diary from a nine-day, eight-night tour of Mespotamia/Iraq.
Saki Knafo GQ Apr 2011 20min Permalink
An acquaintance dies in Iraq and a writer investigates. “How did Michael come to inspire such loyalty? And how did he come to die on the floodplain of the Euphrates? I looked closer and saw they were the same.”
Thomas Lake Atlanta Magazine May 2009 35min Permalink
He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her. No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.
Nadya Labi Wired Aug 2007 15min Permalink