“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”
How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.
Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.
And I fear what it has become.
A profile of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who “may be the only reliable voice of caution left in an administration inching closer to the brink.”
In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine—and a foot soldier in Russia’s information war.
An Afghanistan love story.
A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.
Why are we still involved?
Finland shares an 833-mile border with an aggressive and unpredictable neighbor––Russia. North of the Arctic Circle, the author trained with the elite soldiers who will be on the front lines if this cold feud ever gets hot.
Steve Acheson finds a different form of protest.
A Marine veteran of the Iraq War on battle and faith.
Orange County’s first serial killer in 25 years stalked homeless men.
An on-the-ground investigation reveals that the U.S.-led battle against ISIS — hailed as the most precise air campaign in history — is killing far more Iraqi civilians than the coalition has acknowledged.
Kurdish revolutionaries helped the U.S. expel the Islamic State from its capital city. Will we soon abandon them?
Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?
Bill Brookman has traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous places to disarm militias and negotiate with gangs. Bill Brookman is a clown.
How two veterans with PTSD turned a Canadian military town into a medical-marijuana hub.
Noorullah Aminya was once a valuable ally to the American military. Then, with the Taliban going after his family, he attempted to defect and spent three years in federal detention. To be granted asylum, he needed to convince a judge that the Taliban rule Afghanistan in full. Which would mean America has lost the war.
The lives of six people who survived the atomic bomb.
When Isis rounded up Yazidi women and girls in Iraq to use as slaves, the captives drew on their collective memory of past oppressions – and a powerful will to survive.
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.
Four American rock climbers are kidnapped by guerillas in Kyrgyzstan.
What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.
Boko Haram has abducted thousands of children and trained them as soldiers. Four survivors tell their story.
