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

A dispatch from a Russian town under siege by hungry bears.

When his father was murdered, Wasil Ahmad vowed revenge. He was 8 years old.

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

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

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”

“His goal is to stay in power another day, another year, and to deal with complications when—and if—they arise.”

Bobby Fischer unravels before the 1972 World Chess Championships, a.k.a. the “Match of the Century.”

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

As a nation unwinds, Leopoldo López, the opposition’s most prominent leader, sits under house arrest and contemplates what might still be possible.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

Rojava becomes the Spanish Civil War of modern times for a ragtag group of leftists revolutionaries.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?

How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.

The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.

Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.

When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

A new wife, a dead husband, and the arsenic panic that shook the Victorian world.

A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.

Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.

On the fraught relationship between Bolivia’s Evo Morales and the indigenous activists who support him.