Paul Salopek

To people who stayed in either of the two battered buildings, it was a "horrible prison." Or "the darkest hole in the world." Or "the place I want to forget."...

The pace of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast picked up Sunday with the U.S. military in charge. So, too, did the pace of...

In its most forgiving outline, the love story of Liset and James Landeros has the ring of a fairy tale. Liset and James fell in love. They defied their parents--and...

Few visitors to this dirt-under-the-fingernails Yankee port, with its silent old smokestacks and shuttered downtown, would imagine that it once was a bustling capital of modern-day pirates. But I know....

Helena Kufumana makes a pathetic witch. Far from exuding wickedness, the 13-year-old schoolgirl is nervous and shy. Her "101 Dalmatians" cartoon T-shirt is grubby and doesn't fit. She swings her...

We are living in the house of a 100-year-old woman. True, she is actually 97. But she carries herself like 100--someone who walks the planet regally, in weary triumph, with...

A U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed and eight were wounded Thursday in an attack southwest of Baghdad, while two other American soldiers were apparently seized in an anti-coalition hot...

U.S. troops fired on a crowd of angry demonstrators Wednesday, killing two Iraqis, as an American on guard duty was shot to death elsewhere in the capital and the military...

U.S. forces conducted new raids and weapons searches in Baghdad and nearby towns and villages Monday after 10 soldiers were wounded, two seriously, in the latest ambushes on American troops...