Murtaza Hussain

Murtaza Hussain is a journalist whose work focuses on national security, foreign policy and human rights. His work has previously been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian and Al Jazeera English.

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It’s Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars

Murtaza Hussain — 12:00 p.m.

At least half a million people have been killed in the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, a new study by Brown University researchers finds.

“Of Fathers and Sons” — a Startling Film Goes Inside a Generational Apocalypse in Syria

Murtaza Hussain — Nov. 18

A new documentary by Talal Derki explores the lives of extremists in Syria — their cruelties, failures, and hopes in a shattered country.

Rise of Europe’s Far Right Emboldens Serb Extremists and Threatens a Fragile Peace in Bosnia

Murtaza Hussain — Nov. 15

Two decades after a terrible war, Bosnia is confronted with a new generation of nationalist Serbs who want to change the country's borders.

“Still in Solitary Over Here in Baghdad”: A Forgotten American’s 14-Year Nightmare in Iraq

Cathy Scott-Clark, Murtaza Hussain — Oct. 28

Shawki Omar’s story began as an embodiment of the American Dream. Today, it shows how the so-called war on terror has turned sadistic and extralegal.

Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Has Been a Near Total Failure. Two New Books Look at Why.

Murtaza Hussain — Oct. 21

Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer are back — this time with dueling books about why U.S. foreign policy has utterly failed.

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