Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.

Why the war in Syria can only get worse.

He was just another coked-up agent (repping the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.

Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion on national security. An investigation into whether it has worked.

A full-issue length, 42,000-word history of the dissolution of the Middle East, from the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago until present.

Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

The Piano Man of Yarmouk fled the ruins of Damascus to a life of criss-crossing Germany playing songs about his old neighborhood to huge crowds. Because of refugee law, he is paid nothing.

The daily life of Saddam Hussein.

How ISIS trains the children it captures.

Can new, immersive film technology increase our empathy?

Syrian orphans become child laborers in Turkey.

In the face of death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent two decades exhuming the victims of a “dirty” civil war. Now his work might help bring justice for their murders.

Over the past five years, the Syrian government has killed almost 700 medical personnel. Inside the race to spread medical knowledge as the Assad regime erases it.

A former Ohio National Guardsman recalls being dunked on by LeBron James as a teenager — and how the James helped get him through the Iraq War.

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”

Did Afghan forces target the M.S.F. hospital?

A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.

Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?

What happened to the Afghan timber worker after a 2005 battle was made into a book and feature film.

On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.

Treasure hunters still scour Lower Silesia in search of legendary wartime riches.

Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.

Why ISIS is winning the social media war.

The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.

The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.