Leading up to the official launch of the GroundTruth Project, we were already a go-to source for insight...
Jan 12, 2015The 100-year story behind Boko Haram and Nigeria’s conflict
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, 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, 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, 2014War reporting in the time of the Islamic State
Correspondent James Foley’s execution by the Islamic State forces sober reflection on the perils of front-line coverage. BOSTON...
Aug 22, 2014Mitrovica, a city divided
MITROVICA, Kosovo — We came to the bridge in search of redemption. Not the religious kind, but the...
Jul 01, 2014Why World War I still matters, 100 years after it began
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — One hundred years ago, on the morning of June 28, 1914, a slight,...
Jun 26, 2014Sarajevo struggles to process its history of war
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The stairs that lead to the History Museum were cracked and crumbling and...
Jun 26, 2014