An Iraq War veteran assuages his PTSD with bank heists.

On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.

The story of three peace activists — a drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter — who penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States.

Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?

On the drone strikes that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and his U.S.-born son.

A collection of war stories told by women who have seen combat while serving in the U.S. military.

The origin story of the C.I.A.’s covert drone war, which began with the 2004 killing of a Pashtun militant, the result of a secret deal for access to Pakistani airspace.

An conversation with Omar Hammami, via Twitter.

A war travelogue through Mali alongside French troops as a “place just like Afghanistan” descends into chaos.

Born with spina bifida, Noor al-Zahra Haider entered the media spotlight in 2005 after U.S. troops arranged her life-saving surgery in America. This is what happened when she returned to Iraq.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

The author tells the story of his kidnapping by militants in Syria.

Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.

On the legal and practical details of the drone strikes that killed New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki and later, accidentally, his sixteen-year-old Colorado-born son.

A history of how Tuareg separatists, jihadists seeking a “desert caliphate,” cigarette smugglers, and narcotraffickers have turned Northern Mali into “the globe’s most significant terrorist threat.”

“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”

How governments and private companies have engaged in digital arms trading by building a global black market for ‘zero day’ hacks.

A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

How PTSD spreads from returning soldiers to their families.

As NATO leaves, the Afghan National Army grapples with a resilient Taliban.

A reassessment of the calm, cool JFK.

An investigation into the death of a Canadian soldier in Lebanon.

How John Kiriakou, a public opponent of US torture policy, became the first CIA officer convicted of leaking classified information to the press.