Nick Turse

Nick Turse is a senior reporter for The Intercept, reporting on national security and foreign policy. He is the author, most recently, of “Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan” and the New York Times bestseller “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.” He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and Harpers, among other publications. He has received a Ridenhour Prize for investigative reporting, a Military Reporters & Editors Association Award for Best Overseas Coverage, and a Deadline Club Award for Reporting by Independent Digital Media. Turse is also a fellow at the Type Media Center.

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Responders at the Veterans Crisis Line call centre in Canandaigua, New York, work at their stations on June 4, 2019 - Between 2008 and 2016, more than 6,000 veterans -- many of them gun-owners -- killed themselves each year, amounting to some 20 deaths a day, according to a report last year from the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The Veterans Crisis Line was launched in 2007 with a staff of 14; it now has more than 900 employees, with three call centers across the country, director Matt Miller told AFP. Forty years after the hell of Vietnam and 17 years after US troops first intervened in Afghanistan, "there is a lot more awareness" about veterans' needs, said Marcelle Leis, who heads the Dwyer Project after 20 years in the Air National Guard. (Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP) (Photo credit should read GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images)

The Navy Promised to Do More to Prevent Veteran Suicides. It’s Failing at the Most Basic Measure.

Nick Turse

- Aug. 17, 2022

Most Navy websites do not comply with regulations to promote the Veterans Crisis Line, an internal audit found, as officials take unprecedented steps to prevent suicide in the military.

TOPSHOT - A girl walks through the site where the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) mistakenly bombed the Rann Internally-Displaced Peoples (IDP) camp in northeastern Nigeria near the Cameroonian border on July 29, 2017.On January 17, 2017 the Rann Internally-Displaced Persons (IDP) camp was bombed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), injuring hundreds of people, killing dozens of civilians and at least six humanitarian workers, in the mistaken belief that the large congregation of people was a Boko Haram militant gathering. / AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNIS (Photo credit should read STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Played Secret Role in Nigeria Attack That Killed More Than 160 Civilians

Nick Turse

- July 28, 2022

The 2017 bombing of a displaced persons’ camp was termed a “U.S.-Nigerian” operation, according to a document obtained by The Intercept.

Fort Eustis first responders seal off chemical gear during a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives exercise at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, April 27, 2021. Multiple agencies coordinated to quickly and safely respond to the simulated threat.

Army Bases Shockingly Unprepared for Chemical, Biological Attacks

Nick Turse

- July 9, 2022

Documents say safety shortfalls likely exist across the Army, which operates chemical weapons storage facilities and a research institute that works with lethal pathogens.

U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers observe as Nigerien armed forces service members fire their weapons with the assistance of Illumination rounds during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 9, 2017. Flintlock is a Special Operations Forces exercise geared toward building interoperability between African and western partner nations. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Zayid Ballesteros)

How the Pentagon Uses a Secretive Program to Wage Proxy Wars

Nick Turse, Alice Speri

- July 1, 2022

Exclusive documents and interviews reveal the sweeping scope of classified 127e operations.

Merrick Garland, US attorney general, speaks during a news conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Units of Glencore Plc are pleading guilty to bribery charges as part of a sweeping settlement with authorities in the US and UK to resolve corruption probes that have hung over the commodities giant for years. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Voices

U.S. Vows to Hunt Russian War Criminals — but Gives a Pass to Its Own

Nick Turse

- June 25, 2022

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced investigations of war crimes committed in Ukraine. But America has a surplus of its own unpunished atrocities.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- AUGUST 30, 2021: Ramal Ahmadi far right, leans on another person as he weeps outside their home after his family was killed after a vehicle in their home was targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an U.S. drone strike that was supposed to be targeting ISIS-K suicide bombers, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Pentagon Must Do More to Mitigate Civilian Harm, Says House Armed Services Committee Chair

Nick Turse

- June 20, 2022

Proposed requirements are a major improvement, but experts say they still fall short.

Drone Wars

Civilian Victim of U.S. Drone Strike Starts GoFundMe to Save His Legs — and His Life

Nick Turse

- May 18, 2022

Because of a broken civilian casualty compensation system, the U.S. military never made a payment to Yemeni drone strike survivor Adel Al Manthari.

U.S. Didn't Expect Major Explosions When an ISIS Bomb Factory Was Bombed

Nick Turse

- Apr. 8, 2022

Military documents reveal a flawed "collateral damage estimate" before an airstrike that killed scores of Iraqis in 2015.

Drone Wars

U.S. Airstrike Killed 11 Libyan Civilians and Allies, Human Rights Groups Say

Nick Turse

- Apr. 3, 2022

A criminal complaint filed Friday accuses a former commander at a U.S. air base in Sicily of murder.

Even After Acknowledging Abuses, the U.S. Continued to Employ Notorious Proxy Forces in Cameroon

Nick Turse, Alice Speri

- Mar. 9, 2022

An exclusive document sheds light on a classified Special Operations partnership with a Cameroonian unit implicated in atrocities.

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The Navy Promised to Do More to Prevent Veteran Suicides. It’s Failing at the Most Basic Measure.

U.S. Played Secret Role in Nigeria Attack That Killed More Than 160 Civilians

Army Bases Shockingly Unprepared for Chemical, Biological Attacks

How the Pentagon Uses a Secretive Program to Wage Proxy Wars

U.S. Vows to Hunt Russian War Criminals — but Gives a Pass to Its Own

Pentagon Must Do More to Mitigate Civilian Harm, Says House Armed Services Committee Chair

Civilian Victim of U.S. Drone Strike Starts GoFundMe to Save His Legs — and His Life

U.S. Didn't Expect Major Explosions When an ISIS Bomb Factory Was Bombed

U.S. Airstrike Killed 11 Libyan Civilians and Allies, Human Rights Groups Say

Even After Acknowledging Abuses, the U.S. Continued to Employ Notorious Proxy Forces in Cameroon

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The Navy Promised to Do More to Prevent Veteran Suicides. It’s Failing at the Most Basic Measure.

U.S. Played Secret Role in Nigeria Attack That Killed More Than 160 Civilians

Army Bases Shockingly Unprepared for Chemical, Biological Attacks

How the Pentagon Uses a Secretive Program to Wage Proxy Wars

U.S. Vows to Hunt Russian War Criminals — but Gives a Pass to Its Own

Pentagon Must Do More to Mitigate Civilian Harm, Says House Armed Services Committee Chair

Civilian Victim of U.S. Drone Strike Starts GoFundMe to Save His Legs — and His Life

U.S. Didn't Expect Major Explosions When an ISIS Bomb Factory Was Bombed

U.S. Airstrike Killed 11 Libyan Civilians and Allies, Human Rights Groups Say

Even After Acknowledging Abuses, the U.S. Continued to Employ Notorious Proxy Forces in Cameroon

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