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Thomas Gibbons-NeffThe writer is a Ukraine correspondent for NYT and a former Marine infantrymanLeave the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium and turn west onto rougher roads, where dead trees and twisted...

Thomas Gibbons-Neff The writer is the Kabul bureau chief and a former Marine infantrymanAn array of mostly unremarkable items stretched across two wooden tables on the far side of a cramped workshop...

The white speedboat pulled close to the riverbank in eastern Ukraine and disgorged a half-dozen Ukrainian soldiers carrying their rifles, their packs and the look of exhaustion that comes from days on...

The Ukrainian sergeant slid the captured Russian rocket launcher into the centre of a small room. He was pleased. The weapon was practically brand-new. It had been built in 2020, and its thermobaric...

There was a mass grave that held 300 people, and I was standing at its edge. The chalky body bags were piled up in the pit, exposed. One moment before, I was a different person, someone who never knew...

Half an hour before midnight on March 28, the first artillery shell I ever heard screeched above the tiny roof that sheltered my colleagues and me. Our newly formed team had recently arrived in...