The apex predator is back along New England’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

The hunt for an elusive Somali militant illustrates why Al Shabab, despite a decade of American covert action, are at their strongest in years.

It all happened so fast.

As the pandemic assails Brazil, the virus is taking an exceptionally high toll on the Amazon region.

Six years after its last famine, another is about to tighten its grip on Somalia. South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen are also at risk.

Conflict has spread to even peaceful areas, and government-backed militias burn down villages, drive millions from their homes, and massacre and gang-rape civilians.

An estimated $20 million or more has feverishly changed hands during parliamentary elections that will culminate in the selection of the president.

Witnessing firsthand this volatile zone, first with the Iraqi Army and then with units of the Iraqi Federal Police.

With a willing commander, a Times correspondent and photographer set off down a highway strewn with the charred remains of vehicles destroyed in suicide bombings.

Mr. Gilkey was the first civilian American journalist killed in Afghanistan during the 15-year-long Afghan conflict.

Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, just around the corner from the Bataclan theater, reflects the civic pluralism and street life that the attackers loathed and feared.

Less than a year after driving out the Islamic State, residents of the Kurdish border town in northern Syria are trying to rebuild homes and lives amid rubble.

The police are gone, and militias have flourished, snarling traffic with checkpoints.

Of the many perils Yemen’s civilians have faced during six months of war, none has been as deadly as the airstrikes by a Saudi-led military coalition.

Despite the costs and risks, migrants continue to traverse a country where warring militias have become the only law.