Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.
A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.
A non-fiction comic on the evolution of military and civilian style amid the ‘forever war.’
An American mercenary, who did security for Trump rallies, attempts a amphibious coup along the Venezuelan border.
A hundred and fifty years ago, slightly more, a strange notion: the dead could be counted. In the Civil War, in the lush fields of the South, Americans first, as a culture, began to imagine death in numbers. Rosters of soldiers, as well as lists of war casualties, were not common practice in the mid-nineteenth century. Many officials feared responsibility for the dead by numbering or naming them, and military leaders felt an accurate count might embolden their enemies.
A Ranger graduate breaks down an ordeal that shapes some of the nation’s finest soldiers.
In an excerpt from her book, the late Northern Irish journalist joined a search for a missing youth.
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.
A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.
Behind the scenes, a small team of FBI agents spent years trying to solve a stubborn mystery — whether officials from Saudi Arabia, one of Washington’s closest allies, were involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. This is their story.
Iranian operative Qassem Suleimani has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Bashar al-Assad’s war in Syria.
In Aug. 2008, the U.S. military called in an airstrike on its own security guards in Afghanistan. Dozens of children were killed.
Marine commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected.
The Navy installed touch-screen steering systems to save money. Ten sailors paid with their lives.
On the death of a young reporter named Christopher Allen and the state of conflict journalism.
An unlikely Army wife tries to come to terms with her husband’s calling.
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress during the war in Afghanistan. They were not, and they knew it.
How a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.
Veteran Andy Chavez’s miraculous journey from coma to Wheelchair Games.
Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.
After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis—many of them children—are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.
As ISIS retreats, new horrors emerge for a Sunni family.
An oral history of the war in Afghanistan.
How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.
Was Samantha Sally a prisoner or a conspirator?
