Azam Ahmed

Karen Rodriguez was kidnapped by Mexico’s Zeta cartel. Her mother would stop at nothing to find out exactly what happened to her.

In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country’s war on drugs.

A Times investigation uncovered a brutal campaign enacted by U.S.-backed forces during the war in Afghanistan.

The end of the war in Afghanistan and the fall of its government allowed us to reach previously inaccessible records, places and people, documenting the bloody history of a key American ally.

How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan.

Mullah Osman Jawhari led one of the deadliest assaults on American forces in Afghanistan, a battle that came to symbolize the war itself.

Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.

Trump blamed Biden. Biden blamed the Afghan military. Our investigation found that the U.S. unwittingly laid the groundwork for the Taliban’s victory long ago.

The United States killed its own allies, sabotaging itself in a part of Afghanistan where it never needed to be.

The funicular line, one of three in Lisbon, is a popular tourist attraction.