Agreement to hand over border towns comes after more than 700 Isis affiliates escape camp

In his new book, “Attention Servicemember,” Ben Brody recounts being sent to a Rotary Club luncheon near Fort Stewart, Georgia, to present a slide show of pictures he had taken as an Army combat photographer in Iraq. Brody’s mandate overseas had been “to photograph the war in a way that justified its existence and exaggerated its accomplishments.”

How a terrible but little-known conflict continues to shape and blight a nation

Ramadan Romih, the heavyset manager of the White House Net, an Internet café up the street from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his shop, smoking a large tobacco water pipe.

The Cairo-based photographer Moises Saman has been covering the Arab Spring and its repercussions since the revolution’s inception. “The past two years in Egyptian politics have been like a turbulent soap opera, playing out on the streets of Cairo for all the world to see,” he told me.

President Francois Hollande says French troops are taking part in operations against Islamists in northern Mali.

Child soldiers in Syria are involved in shelling, airstrikes, and sniping. They've also been subject to arbitrary arrest, torture and rape, as reported by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry..

Former president and ex-interior minister to face new trial for complicity in killing of protesters in 2011 uprising.

Photographs from Vietnam in 1963, when America was escalating its involvement in a conflict that would, in time, come to define an era.

The photo shows the bomb's mushroom cloud split into two distinct portions, one on top of the other.

A local photographer got more than he bargained for when he bought an antique camera unknowingly loaded with vintage photographs of the World War I era.

More than 80 people have been killed by two blasts in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, activists and officials say. The explosions reportedly struck an area between the University of Aleppo's halls of residence and the architecture faculty on the first day of exams.

Human rights advocates question whether US-manufactured ammunition and helicopters were used against civilian protesters.

Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong.

Innocence" lay for 11 hours in the rubble of a building flattened by an aerial bombing Saturday until neighbors dug her out alive.

Breaking North Korea News, Opinion, Culture & Curiosities + Professional, Academic & Student resources on North Korea / DPRK

Britain's Prince Harry has acknowledged that he killed Taliban insurgents on his latest tour of duty in Afghanistan as a crew member of an Apache attack helicopter.

Escalating tensions among China, Japan and the U.S. could ignite armed conflict -- and sink the global economy.

North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country.

Forty years after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, LIFE.com revisits one of the most indelible, searing photographs made during the long, divisive war in Vietnam.