You are here: Homepage Tag the military Articles Photography | Ukraine War and a bit of peace The Kyiv photographer Vic Bakin portrays Ukrainian soldiers at home, far from the front line, in his photographic work “Hell Was Full” By Ole Witt 05/07/2026 These young women had been kidnapped by a group of Boko Haram members as young teenagers. Today they live in freedom in Maiduguri Photo: Getty Images Conflict | Nigeria Schools under attack For ten years, Boko Haram has been kidnapping people in northern Nigeria, including countless schoolchildren. But why are authorities so powerless? By Eromo Egbejule 11/11/2024 One of Sudan’s many protests: back in May 2019, thousands of people demonstrated in Khartoum demanding that the country’s military government relinquish control Photo: David Degner/Getty Images Politics | Sudan A state held hostage Politicians, the military, investors: in Sudan, key players are fighting over power and money. On how violence is flaring up again in a state that just won’t settle down By Stella Gaitano 10/25/2023 In the mountains of Azerbaijan Photo: Noémi Kiss Frozen conflict | Azerbaijan Far from the front For years the remote villages in the Caucasus have served as recruiting grounds for militias fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. Notes from a journey through the Azerbaijani hinterlands. By Noémi Kiss 04/01/2021 Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (1st, R) visits the site of avalanches on April 8, 2012, where some 135 people including 11 civilians are trapped on the Siachen Glacier mountains in northern Pakistan Photo: IMAGO / Xinhua Above The highest conflict in the world Indian and Pakistani troops have been facing off on top of a glacier for 30 years. By Prateek Joshi 01/07/2019 Heroes Do it like Lei! The much-hyped soldier Lei Feng has been dead for over fifty years but to this day, the Communist Party of China continues to tout him as a moral role model. By Falk Hartig 05/02/2018
Photography | Ukraine War and a bit of peace The Kyiv photographer Vic Bakin portrays Ukrainian soldiers at home, far from the front line, in his photographic work “Hell Was Full” By Ole Witt 05/07/2026
These young women had been kidnapped by a group of Boko Haram members as young teenagers. Today they live in freedom in Maiduguri Photo: Getty Images Conflict | Nigeria Schools under attack For ten years, Boko Haram has been kidnapping people in northern Nigeria, including countless schoolchildren. But why are authorities so powerless? By Eromo Egbejule 11/11/2024
One of Sudan’s many protests: back in May 2019, thousands of people demonstrated in Khartoum demanding that the country’s military government relinquish control Photo: David Degner/Getty Images Politics | Sudan A state held hostage Politicians, the military, investors: in Sudan, key players are fighting over power and money. On how violence is flaring up again in a state that just won’t settle down By Stella Gaitano 10/25/2023
In the mountains of Azerbaijan Photo: Noémi Kiss Frozen conflict | Azerbaijan Far from the front For years the remote villages in the Caucasus have served as recruiting grounds for militias fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. Notes from a journey through the Azerbaijani hinterlands. By Noémi Kiss 04/01/2021
Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (1st, R) visits the site of avalanches on April 8, 2012, where some 135 people including 11 civilians are trapped on the Siachen Glacier mountains in northern Pakistan Photo: IMAGO / Xinhua Above The highest conflict in the world Indian and Pakistani troops have been facing off on top of a glacier for 30 years. By Prateek Joshi 01/07/2019
Heroes Do it like Lei! The much-hyped soldier Lei Feng has been dead for over fifty years but to this day, the Communist Party of China continues to tout him as a moral role model. By Falk Hartig 05/02/2018
