Growing up Afghan in the era of the Afghanistan War.

Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. He was held in Guantanamo for years without charges. He was tortured. And earlier this month, after nearly 13 years behind bars, he was released on bail.

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection.

One man’s story.

A leading Guantanamo interrogator was once a Chicago police detective accused of police brutality.

What one sergeant says he saw before the alleged suicides of three detainees.

Untouched by Western journalists except in the presence of American troops, Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley was once the most violent part of the Afghan War.

Following the money and the opium in Afghanistan.

Inside the stronghold of Commander Pigeon, “collector of lost and exiled men.”

While war raged across Afghanistan, expats lived in a bubble of good times and easy money. But as the U.S. withdraws, life has taken a deadly turn.

The full text of a 20,000-word ebook on the interpreters who worked alongside American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their fates once they were no longer of service.

A grieving father looks for answers.

One man's transition from military to civilian life.

Previously: Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Last fall, a team of American Special Forces arrived in Nerkh, a district just west of Kabul. Six months later, amid allegations of torturing and murdering locals, the team was gone. Shortly after they left, the remains of 10 missing villagers were found outside their vacated base. An investigation into a possible war crime.

Each soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan generated around 10 pounds of garbage per day. Most of that trash—along with used equipment and medical supplies and other wastes of war—was burned in open-air pits, emitting a toxic smoke that many soliders blame for their poor health today.

Investigating the spike in Afghan-on-American military murders.

On the attempt to rehabilitate Afghanistan’s child jihadis.

After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.

After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.

On the India-Pakistan proxy war in Afghanistan.

On the drone strikes that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and his U.S.-born son.

The origin story of the C.I.A.’s covert drone war, which began with the 2004 killing of a Pashtun militant, the result of a secret deal for access to Pakistani airspace.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.