Boys in Zinc
Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Svetlana Alexievich Granta Oct 2015 25min Permalink
A former prostitute turned arctivist and her taxi-driver husband go undercover in Iraq’s brothels.
Rania Abouzeid New Yorker Oct 2015 20min Permalink
The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.
Garance le Caisne The Guardian Oct 2015 20min Permalink
Struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide, Army officer Lawrence Franks went AWOL. Five years later, he reappeared as Christopher Flaherty, a member of the French Foreign Legion who served three tours in Africa. Then he was court-martialed.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Sep 2015 35min Permalink
One Marine battalion has had four members kill themselves in just the last year. The soldiers have jury-rigged a system of Facebook notifications and Google spreadsheets to try to stop it.
Dave Philipps New York Times Sep 2015 25min Permalink
While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Oct 2015 35min Permalink
Meet Britain’s “Batman of obscenity.”
Edward Docx The Guardian Sep 2015 30min Permalink
The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.
Zach Baron GQ Aug 2015 25min Permalink
The stories of four women whose children joined the Islamic State.
Julia Ioffe Huffington Post Aug 2015 35min Permalink
The system of organized sexual slavery at the heart of ISIS.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Aug 2015 Permalink
A physicist remembers working on the Manhattan Project.
Brian Merchant Motherboard Aug 2015 20min Permalink
Visiting with the Christian fighters defending Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.
Jen Percy The New Republic Aug 2015 25min Permalink
An interview with a man who organized suicide bombings for ISIS.
Christoph Reuter Der Spiegel Jul 2015 10min Permalink
Oskar Groening, an SS officer whose duties included counting confiscated money, describes his time posted to Auschwitz.
Editor’s note: At age 94, Groening was convicted yesterday of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to four years in prison.
Laurence Rees Politico Jul 2015 25min Permalink
Growing up Afghan in the era of the Afghanistan War.
Morwari Zafar Granta Jun 2015 20min Permalink
The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.
Shiv Malik, Ali Younes, Spencer Ackerman, Mustafa Khalili The Guardian Jun 2015 25min Permalink
Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. He was held in Guantanamo for years without charges. He was tortured. And earlier this month, after nearly 13 years behind bars, he was released on bail.
Michelle Shephard The Toronto Star May 2015 15min Permalink
From equipment that doesn’t fit to an ill-equipped VA medical system.
Kathryn Miles Boston Globe May 2015 15min Permalink
“The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account.”
Seymour M. Hersh London Review of Books May 2015 40min Permalink
Gregg Bemis is an 87-year-old retired venture capitalist who owns the salvage rights to the Lusitania. He’s determined to prove an alternate theory as to why the ship was attacked in 1915. Unfortunately, the Irish government isn’t so into his plan.
Richard B. Stolley Fortune May 2015 15min Permalink
Two brothers divided by Central African Republic’s civil war.
James Verini Slate Sep 2014 40min Permalink
He was one of Israel’s greatest spies. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.
Ronen Bergman The Atavist Magazine Apr 2015 1h10min Permalink
Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Mar 2015 45min Permalink
One man’s story.
Joshua Partlow Washington Post Mar 2015 10min Permalink
A reporter returns to My Lai.
Seymour Hersh New Yorker Mar 2015 30min Permalink