They didn’t look like killers. Sitting in a littered courtyard in the fading light of day, I met...
Dec 31, 2014In Northern Ireland, breaking the silence on World War I
BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Like shrapnel embedded in an old wound, memory eventually works its way to the...
Dec 30, 2014Remembering a century-old Christmas truce after a year full of war
One hundred years ago today, the cold, wet and shattered troops that faced each other in the trenches...
Dec 24, 2014Ukraine’s familiar fight for a national identity
Editor’s note: This analysis is part of a Special Report called “The Eleventh Hour: Unlearned lessons of World...
Dec 10, 2014In Jerusalem, recent violence is measured by a long history
JERUSALEM — One hundred years on, and the trench lines are still there, carved with shovels and pickaxes...
Nov 19, 2014Golan Heights Druze sit precariously between Syria and Israel
MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — Wearing the traditional dress of a religious Druze — pleated, baggy black trousers...
Nov 12, 2014How World War I made combat even more terrible
"It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.” ― Erich...
Nov 11, 2014The borders of the Middle East are being redrawn by force (VIDEO)
KHANAQIN, Iraq — A wind-swept hilltop of parched, brown earth provided as good a vantage point as any...
Nov 10, 2014In the West Bank, World War I never ended
JERICHO, West Bank — History flows through the Jordan River, and also divides it. In the Hebrew Bible,...
Nov 10, 2014Why World War I is so often forgotten in America
ST ANDREWS, Scotland – In this town known primarily for golf and Scotland’s first university, there is a...
Nov 09, 2014