The Worst of All Horrors / Foreign Policy
These days, no one seems to have endured just one kind of life-jarring experience in the conflict areas of Iraq. The suffering is multilayered: trauma caused…
Doctors Without Scruples / Foreign Policy
High-ranking al Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah had apparently, at one point in his 12-year imprisonment by the United States, refused to drink fluids — or at…
Losing the Lonely War / Foreign Policy
Her hands showed every tendon, and her arms were like matchsticks. With a grayish tint to her face, Alma Abdulrahman, 27, spoke from a hospital bed…
A Tidal Wave of Trauma / Foreign Policy
There are as many guises of trauma as there are Syrians who have experienced the war still ravaging their country. The dead-eyed mask is common, often…
For Desperate Souls, A Last Chance No More
A suicidal New Yorker picks up the phone. He dials the number of the city’s oldest crisis-intervention hotline, HelpLine, in a last-ditch effort to save himself.…