The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?

The story of an aviator-adventurer draws a journalist into a reflection on his own family’s history of flight.

An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

A PR company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.

A legend hangs on.

In 1993 a black teenager in London was randomly stabbed to death by a gang of white youths. Twenty years later, they would be at the center of the trial of the decade.

On Witanhurst, the dilapidated London mansion whose ownership is cloaked in mystery.

A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."

On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.

Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?

Published on the eve of Iran’s 2009 presidential election and subsequent protests, a look at the booze-fueled, hijab-less underground party scene in the capital.

Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.