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How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan. The convoy rumbled into the Taliban heartland, a white desert littered with stones. Over the loudspeakers at the local [...]

How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan. The convoy rumbled into the Taliban heartland, a white desert littered with stones. Over the loudspeakers at the local [...]

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Iranian officials have worried for years that other nations have been depriving them of one of their vital water sources. But it was not [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- For years, opium has been the monster too big to slay. One Afghan government after another has pledged to stamp out opium production and trafficking, only to [...]

TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Rania Mustafa's living room recalls a not-so-distant past, when the modest salary of a security guard in Lebanon could buy an air-conditioner, plush furniture and a flat-screen [...]

No season is as central to Indian life and lore as the monsoon. It turns up in ancient Sanskrit poetry and in Bollywood films. It shapes the fortunes of millions [...]

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The minivan sped along the Nile, weaving through the evening traffic. The bride sat up front in a pink dress, a sparkling purse on her lap and [...]

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Mongolians have long relied on folklore to explain how miserably cold their winters are. During the first of nine phases of winter -- each composed of [...]

Mr. Denton, a photographer for The New York Times, was with Iraqi counterterrorism forces as they began pushing toward Mosul last week. BARTELLA, Iraq -- Our convoy had already been [...]

SHEIKH AMIR, Iraq -- The Kurdish pesh merga forces started their advance by moonlight, in the early hours of Monday. East of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, columns of [...]

I accompanied Iraq's elite counterterrorism force and other units from the Iraqi military and the federal police into Falluja at the end of June, during the final days of their [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPALMYRA, Syria -- As my Hezbollah escort and I entered the modern city around Palmyra, we were greeted by the mangled body of an Islamic State fighter left to [...]