Burrowing into both Afghan family life and the country’s convoluted politics, Åsne Seierstad's "The Afghans" follows three people over several decades, culminating in the dramatic first year of the ...

When it comes to dealing with two of the biggest current crises in the Muslim world – the devastation of Gaza and the Taliban ...

Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...

The US needs to forget nearly everything it has learned from fighting in the Middle East, the trainer told Business Insider.

In "The Last Sweet Bite," Michael Shaikh looks to those who are preserving their food and culinary traditions in the ...

Naturally, many people who lived in the lands the CIA had chosen to attack were killed just because they were present when an attack occurred. Over at the NSA, the budget was expanding almost as ...

While it is hard to quantify the program’s effect in absolute terms, its history offers valuable lessons for today, not least ...

There were booming sounds and then a clattering like a hailstorm on the roofs of the mess and the hospital ward.

Six weeks after the Continental Army was formed in 1775, George Washington made a declaration that has shaped the military ...

The novel "Brothers in Arms" features dozens of brothers who served in the war. One pair from the San Felipe Pueblo is ...

Thousands of Afghan interpreters, medics, engineers, logisticians and their families — men and women who risked everything to ...

“Pink Flamingos” has been censored all around the world. There were four offending scenes: the eating [expletive], the [expletive], the artificial insemination and the chicken [expletive]. That last ...