A conversation with one of Russia’s “little green men”: a 24-year-old recruited to fight in Eastern Ukraine.

In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”

A grieving father looks for answers.

How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.

How an anti-government militia grew on a U.S. Army base.

On America’s combat canines and their handlers.

How the famed war photographer covered D-Day.

A dispatch from the Central African Republic.

The life and death of Pat Tillman.

On the future of Iraq.

One man's transition from military to civilian life.

Previously: Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast.

An execution in war-torn Cuba.

Dick Cheney and the political history of warrantless surveillance.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Embedded with G4S, the world’s largest private army.

Embedded with a U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad.

The story that inspired The Hurt Locker.

Why do Syrian civilians in a Turkish camp live in relative luxury?

With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.

Investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.

An Israeli journalist’s six years of conversation with Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday.

From her deathbed, the author’s mother revealed a secret she had kept for 60 years: her true love was not his father, but a man named Angus Zahrt. On his ensuing search for the full story.

Capt. Stephen Hill became famous when he came out as a gay soldier during a 2011 GOP presidential debate. Here’s how he got to that point, and what happened after.

How the Syrian president stays in power.