War in Afghanistan

Opinion: Obama has a hard sell on Afghanistan troop increase

Will Obama's vow to "finish the job" ring as hollow as "mission accomplished" did in Iraq? C.M. Sennott explores the perilous terrain of counterinsurgency based on his reporting in Afghanistan for the Special Report "Life, Death and the Taliban."

• Life, death and the Taliban: Blowback

• Life, death and the Taliban: War of ideas

• Life, death and the Taliban: Counterinsurgency

• Life, death and the Taliban: Funding the Taliban

• Are US taxpayers funding the Taliban?

• Are Pentagon contracts funding the Taliban?

• Obama's war

Crime and punishment

Guatemalan gangs: swagger, tattoos but no rules

With Guatemalan gangs in their infancy, heinous crimes — including rape — are accepted, and even encouraged.

• Malaysian model drinks beer, asks to be caned

• Belgium's prison break problem

Join Passport

Securing America’s northern front

Washington’s War on Terror is disrupting sleepy communities on the Canadian border, where some can’t buy gasoline without a passport.

• Grid leap forward

• Japan’s downward spiral

From the grave

Real-life CSI techniques go global

A Bosnia-based organization is a global leader in the science of identifying human remains using DNA.

• Opening the "death wells" of Turkey

• Digging up the dead

Special report

Special report: Silicon Sweatshops

Despite strict "codes of conduct," labor rights violations are the norm at factories making the world's favorite high-tech gadgets.

• Silicon Sweatshops: A promising model

• Silicon Sweatshops: Shattered dreams

• Silicon Sweatshops: Disposable workforce

• Silicon Sweatshops: The China connection

• What do you think about Silicon Sweatshops?

Brazil tries to preserve the Amazon through financial incentives

Save a tree and get money, a brick walkway and new metal roofs?

• What China expects from the Copenhagen climate talks

• Mexico goes green — or does it?

God squad

In Spain, some push to rid classrooms of religious symbols

Proposed ban stirs debate over religion in traditionally Catholic, but technically secular, Spain.

• Israelis riot, thanks be to God

• God's midfielder

Real trips

Spending the night in Paris' murky underground

Most of Paris' catacombs aren't open to tourists — but that doesn't mean no one visits them.

• Lebanese discover their own backyard

• War-zone tourism

Full Frame

Photo essays and conversations with photographers.

Full Frame: Family of man

The 21st-century family of man: photography as public diplomacy.

• Left behind in Tajikistan

• Africa's new narcostate

On Location videos

On Location: Tel Aviv

• Beijing: The Chinese on Obama

• Mexico City: Gangster chic

• Haryana: India's looming food crisis

• Tokyo: Blue light special

• Java: Murder 101

• Paris: Kinder, gentler strike season

• Beijing: Neighbor or narc?

• Cairo: Cough like an Egyptian

• Delhi: India's killer roads

Reviving Turkish baths

Afghanistan: Waiting for the dust to settle

Swordfighting at a chestnut festival

On Location: Mexico City — Gangster chic

Senegal's breakdancers take it to the beach