Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan: In 2015, after Taliban skirmishes in the town of Sangin, Kharim Ahmad, an Afghan civilian, receives treatment from shrapnel wounds and other injuries at an emergency hospital.
A Senate subcommittee is looking at waste by a Pentagon task force. It would do well to review the reasons why a major hydroelectric power plant sits unfinished.
The Doctors Without Borders report sheds terrifying light on last month's airstrike.
From ISIS to the Christian right, three new books explore the modern urge to go back to an original, uncorrupted version of faith.
What makes women join the Islamic State? It's a complicated question that challenges our notion of feminism, culture, and religion, but it's crucial if we are going to defeat ISIS.
Prosecutors acknowledge they accepted a guilty plea from an Australian man under a law that was passed after his alleged criminal conduct, and that his conviction should not stand.
Movies like American Sniper have the ability to shape Americans’ real-world understanding of conflict with enemy groups. Is that a good thing?
While it's turned into a disparaging term, being a "truther" once meant you were the opposite of a liar.
A peek at Taliban educational philosophy.
It was a dark time in a long, drawn-out war. Afghanistan was festering with resentment. The Pentagon brass were desperate. It was the kind of last-ditch moment when authorities start throwing an era's weirdest ideas at its most hopeless bureaucratic mistakes.