Nick Turse

Burkina Faso has endured poverty, drought, hunger, and coups. Now experts fear that Covid-19 could decimate entire settlements of the country's displaced.

Almost every federal agency has warned about shortages — and some have offered specific and sobering estimates of need — for the better part of two decades.

Whether the U.S. healthcare system buckles like Italy’s “really depends on how vigorously and promptly we do social distancing,” Dr. Tom Frieden said.

Abdi Farhan Mahmoud, 13, was on his way to school when a U.S. missile struck a mini-bus taxi he was riding in, decapitating him, his father said.

Trump and some pundits have flirted with border closures but health experts say the key is dealing with the coronavirus inside the country.

A formerly secret map from AFRICOM shows a network of 29 U.S. military bases that stretch from one side of Africa to another.

Airwars found that between 71 and 139 civilians have been killed in Somalia since 2007, far exceeding AFRICOM’s official count of two dead.

Military personnel interviewed civilian witnesses in just 21.5 percent of investigations, "severely compromising" their effectiveness.

Closing borders in the face of Ebola, experts say, is the worst possible response and only encourages unauthorized border crossings.

“We’re not getting answers to basic questions, like who the U.S. has killed and why it hasn’t better protected civilians.”