Syria’s civil war is the latest grisly chapter in more than a millennium of conflict

US women could be about to achieve a level of equality not all of them actually want, by becoming eligible to be drafted in a time of war

Afghanistan is a general disaster which touches everyone and was enabled by everyone

The leaked “Afghanistan Papers” tell a story of cover-ups at every level of America’s longest war. But can we really expect anything different?

This was not supposed to happen. Not in the year 2029. A nuclear war, millions dead, firestorms, irradiated cities. How did we get here?