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The Jihadist from Phoenix

Eric Harroun claims to have joined up with an al Qaeda-linked group fighting in Syria’s brutal civil war. We tracked him down, but getting the truth was more difficult.

BY GREG TEPPER, ILAN BEN ZION | MARCH 22, 2013

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The best stories from around the world.

BY LAURA CLARK | MARCH 15, 2013

Order's Out

Tim McLaughlin writes to Victoria's Secret and readies for battle in Kuwait.

MARCH 14, 2013

Rolling Into Baghdad

Tim McLaughlin recalls the taking of the Diyala bridge and the toppling of Saddam's statue in Firdos Square.

MARCH 14, 2013

Living with PTSD

Tim McLaughlin discusses the Iraq war's personal toll, 10 years after the taking of Baghdad.

MARCH 14, 2013

‘Good Kills’

The bloody battle for the Diyala bridge.

BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 14, 2013

My Handwritten War

An eyewitness to history, from the 9/11 attacks to the toppling of Saddam.

BY TIM MCLAUGHLIN | MARCH 14, 2013

The Geopolitics of 'Girls'

How Lena Dunham explains the world.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | MARCH 13, 2013

The Toppling

How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war.

BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 12, 2013

The Rough Guide to Iraq

A journalist's strange journey on the road to Baghdad.

BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 12, 2013

The Iraq War That Might Have Been

Ten years on, newly published secret documents shed new light on potential turning points the United States missed.

BY MICHAEL R. GORDON, BERNARD E. TRAINOR | MARCH 12, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | MARCH 8, 2013

Armenia's California Dream

The unlikely candidate shaking up the country's political establishment.

BY EMIL SANAMYAN | MARCH 4, 2013

The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanistan

"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience."

BY VALI NASR | MARCH 4, 2013

State of War

FP surveyed more than 70 experts on today's global conflicts, with John Arquilla guiding us through the results.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | MARCH 4, 2013

Mad Libs: War Edition

FP asked more than 70 top military thinkers to fill in the blanks on the world's global conflicts -- from the drone wars to the budget wars.

MARCH 4, 2013

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The best stories from around the world.

BY LAURA CLARK | MARCH 1, 2013

Help Wanted: Must Be Infallible

A job description for the next pope.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 28, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

You Don't Know Chuck

Who said it: Sen. Hagel or the Shin Bet?

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Does Hollywood Have a Foreign Policy?

Tinseltown’s biggest films tend to be highly critical of American power, but also reinforce the idea that the rest of the world is a place best avoided.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The Little Search Engine That Couldn’t

How China’s Communist Party tried to compete with Google, and failed miserably.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Don't Fear the Migrants

What America really needs to worry about is when they stop coming.

BY FRANK JACOBS | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Speech by Numbers

A quantitative look at the last 12 State of the Union addresses.

BY TY MCCORMICK | FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Whoppers of the Union

Fact-checking a decade's worth of the president's big speech.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | FEBRUARY 11, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | FEBRUARY 8, 2013

What Richard III Can Teach Us Today

The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Can Shakespeare’s fallen tyrant help us set it to rights?

BY JOHN WATKINS | FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Doomsday Preppers

At a new center in Cambridge, a philosopher, an astronomer, and a software pioneer are looking for ways to save humanity from itself.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 4, 2013