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Personal narratives

Eye of the Drone

From statements made in February by the families of victims and survivors of a March 17, 2011, drone attack in the village of Datta Khel in the Pakistani region of…

A Head for the Emir

by William T. Vollmann,

Travels in Iraqi Kurdistan

The Master of Spin Boldak

by Matthieu Aikins,

Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police

Child’s play

by Harper’s Staff,

Bearing Arms

by Benjamin Busch,

The serious boy at war

Highway run

by Jake Silverstein,

Touring Mexico in a death-race revival

“Don’t Watch the News”

by Frederick Busch,

A Marine’s family lives from phone call to phone call

Machete season

by Jean Hatzfeld,Translated by Linda Coverdale,

Out of Iraq

by Adam Davidson,

The rise and fall of one man's occupation

Beyond Fallujah

by Patrick Graham,

A year with the Iraqi resistance

Chronicle of a War Foretold

by Charles Glass,

On the move with Ahmad Chalabi, the man who would be king