A year and a half with Candace Desmond-Woods, whose husband, and Iraq war veteran, suffers from PTSD and alcoholism.

Life inside Za’atari, a camp for Syrian refugees just across the Jordanian border, where “the dispossession is absolute. Everyone has lost his country, his home, his equilibrium. Most have lost a family member or a friend. What is left is a kind of theatrical pride, the necessary performance of will.”

A history of humanitarian intervention.

“At first, there is only a little sound, a metallic ping, almost a click.”

The life and death of a reporter.

A briefing on drone warfare.

A profile of lawyer Jacques Vergès, who died yesterday after decades spent defending war criminals, terrorists and dictators.

On the attempt to rehabilitate Afghanistan’s child jihadis.

Team America voyages to Jordan’s King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center to compete against top-seeded China and other squads in challenges based on counter-terrorism scenarios.

How a corporate network engineer became one of Aleppo’s most prolific weapons manufacturers.

On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.

How a con man named James McCormick sold $38 million worth of phony bomb-detection devices to Iraqi authorities.

Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?

The story of the attack that killed U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, told from the persepctive of the security agents there to protect him.

After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.

After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.

How Russia consistently undermines the U.N. in order to keep a multi-billion dollar monopoly on the sales of helicopters and airplanes.

On the India-Pakistan proxy war in Afghanistan.

Inside the growth of intelligence contracting.

On living in Syria as an Alawite loyalist.

“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”

How General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, became the most powerful intelligence officer in U.S. history.

Tracing a secretive cyber-war’s battles and casualties.

In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.