A man’s search for his kidnapped children in India and Nepal.

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

The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit​ has been nothing if not complicated.

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

Their entire lives, Alex and Tim Foley thought their mom and dad were typical, boring American parents. Then the FBI showed up.

On the rise of Marine Le Pen, France’s right-wing presidential candidate.

In the basement of the White House, in an office with no windows, an MFA grad named Ben Rhodes is telling the story of America’s foreign policy.

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

Four men stood on the edge of the Shenzhen Health and Family Planning Commission, threatening to jump in protest. They referred to themselves as “China’s 21st century eunuchs,” damaged by medically-dubious surgeries.

David Vincenzetti says his company, which sells spyware to world’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies, is helping to thwart terrorism. Others say it’s a danger to citizens, dissidents, and journalists alike.

What happened when two guys set out to convert their Colombian megachurch to Orthodox Judaism.

How 2-minute noodles became a half-billion dollar debacle for Nestlé in India.

How the government cleared the streets in advance of the 1988 Olympics.

They were florists working in Amsterdam’s largest flower market. They were also members of one of the most powerful arms of the Italian mafia. An investigation into how organized crime has gone global.

A brazen land grab in Zimbabwe and why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.

How war-crimes investigators captured top-secret documents tying the Syrian regime to mass murder.

Immigrant nannies leave their own children behind to care for others’.

Welcome to Wakaliwood, where a resourceful producer in the slums of Kampala makes action movies like Who Killed Captain Alex? Uganda’s First Action Movie for about $200 apiece.

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

For thousands of years, sailors in the Marshall Islands have navigated vast distances of open ocean without instruments. Almost nobody on Earth understands how they do it. And soon, the few people who do will be gone.

Most of the men were in their 60s and 70s, with heart conditions, diabetes, and replacement hips. They made off with millions in cash and jewels, only to give themselves up by not understanding how technology works.

Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.

Part 1 of “The Mastermind,” a serialized investigation of Paul Le Roux, who went from brilliant programmer to vicious cartel boss to highly protected U.S. government asset.

How the president thinks about America’s role in the world.

On a small section of land wedged between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil and the American who tried to claim it for himself.