The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring.

He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.

Death, ISIS, and tourism in the Atlas Mountains.

The angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.

A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.

The corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa, the world’s most unequal country.

On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.

Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.

A visit to America’s leading trade show for state violence.

A conversation between the writers Nadifa Mohamed, who left Hargeisa, and Aleksandar Hemon, who left Bosnia.

Russia is dead set on being a global power. But what looks like grand strategy is often improvisation—amid America’s retreat.

“The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.”

A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.

Life in Mexico immediately after being forced to leave the U.S.

Lyra McKee’s last story.

The story of a young man from rural Ghana who bought a pair of secret camera glasses and got himself smuggled across the Sahara, to film crime and exploitation along the way.

Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing.

When Spanish authorities sentenced this provocative musician to prison for “glorifying terrorism,” his dedicated fans helped him make a daring escape across the border.

On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.

My wife is not a terrorist.

In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.

What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.

Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.

Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.

The Ceasefire Babies was what they called us. Those too young to remember the worst of the terror because we were either in nappies or just out of them when the Provisional IRA ceasefire was called. I was four, Jonny was three. We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us.