JERICHO, West Bank — History flows through the Jordan River, and also divides it. In the Hebrew Bible,...
Nov 10, 2014
War 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, 2014
Mitrovica, a city divided
MITROVICA, Kosovo — We came to the bridge in search of redemption. Not the religious kind, but the...
Jul 01, 2014
Why 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, 2014
Sarajevo 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
Returning to sites of Kosovo’s horrors, signs of healing and injustice
PRISTINA, Kosovo — In the Balkans, the 28th of June has resonated on the calendar through centuries of...
Jun 26, 2014
Kosovo’s ‘House of Cards,’ 15 years after liberation
PRISTINA, Kosovo — There were no big parades, no visible celebrations and hardly a public mention of the...
Jun 14, 2014
After a century of conflict, searching for peace in Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The footsteps of the assassin are marked near the bridge here where a...
Jun 12, 2014
Once enemies, a pastor and an imam wage peace in Nigeria
KADUNA, Nigeria — For years, they were out to kill each other. And they almost did. But now...
Mar 10, 2014
The quest to build an ‘early warning system’ to stop Nigeria’s Muslim-Christian violence
KADUNA, Nigeria — The waters of the River Kaduna swirl forward under a bridge that spans the long,...
Mar 10, 2014
Nigerians touched by communal violence talk in the absence of justice
KAFANCHAN, Nigeria — The highway from Kaduna wove through a maze of military checkpoints and then continued past...
Mar 10, 2014