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Dispatches from Baghdad Chris Elliott, a technical writer from Cambridge and weekend trumpeter, chronicled his band's week-long gig in the Iraqi capital. (January 2007)

In Iraq, 'it's us versus death' Since arriving in Iraq in early October, members of the 399th Combat Support Hospital, a Mass.-based Army Reserve unit, have become intimately familiar with the mass casualty call to action and the siren blare that warns of incoming shellfire. (December 2006)   Mission to heal  PART 1: The medics' battle  Preparation

Hezbollah fighter strove to be a martyr A glimpse of Rani Ahmed Bazzi's public and private faces tells the story of Hezbollah's battlefield strength, its fanaticism, its religious potency, and its deep cultural hold over Lebanon's Shi'ites. (December 2006)  AUDIO SLIDESHOW: The story of a Hezbollah "Martyr"

Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006 Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of 148 Shi'ites in the 1980s, sent to the gallows by a government backed by the United States and led by Shi'ite Muslims who had been oppressed during his rule. (December 2006) Includes photo galleries and NECN Video

Saving baby Mariam When Navy medic Chris Walsh met a baby named Mariam during a "routine" patrol in Fallujah, finding the bad guys suddenly became secondary. The child, just a few months old, had a rare condition in which the bladder develops outside the body, and she wouldn't live long without surgery. (December 2006)  PHOTO GALLERY: Mariam's team  AUDIO: Kevin Cullen on Hear & Now

Muslim voices rising in China On a recent Friday, the holy day of Islam, crowds swelled inside the antique Jame mosque, the largest in this ancient town in Xinjiang Province in the far west of China, home to the nation's small but restive Muslim minority. (November 2006)  China pipeline raises ethnic strife  Muslims living in the former East Turkestan

Life in Gaza steadily worsens A little more than a year after Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza Strip, nearly everything that was expected to improve for the 1.4 million Palestinians here has instead gotten worse. (October 2006)  Four Gaza lives made difficult  AUDIO: Fouad al-Amoudi  Khaled Abdel Shafi  AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Scenes from Gaza

The Long War: Five years after 9/11 A Boston Globe special report looks at security, families of the victims, and the hunt for Osama bin Laden five years after the deadly terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 people. (September 2006)  MULTIMEDIA: A Reporter's notebook  Hear Charles Sennott on WGBH's 'The World'  PART 1: Boston vulnerable despite millions spent  PART 2: Tragedy tears at a family's bonds  PART 3: Afghan role changing, quarry still elusive

Iranians debate parameters for a global role TEHRAN -- Behind Iran's defiant stance on its nuclear program lies an anxious debate over the country's role in the world. (September 2006)  Iranians pursue freedoms while shunning US influence (By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff, 8/30/06)  Iran looks to science as source of pride (By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff, 8/22/06)

Crisis in the Middle East Complete coverage of the Israel/Lebanon conflict, including the latest news, stories from today's Globe, and past coverage. (July 2006) Includes photo galleries, audio slideshows, NECN video, and graphics

Outlasting AIDS in Africa Across Africa, the continent's young and middle-aged are forced to fashion a way of life, and improvise a sense of the future, in an era shattered by AIDS. (July 2006)  PART 2: Hospice workers now agents of life  Audio slideshow  Photo gallery

At the front of Israel's culture war A five-part series Five Israelis were profiled as they prepared for a parliamentary election on March 28. At left, Benny Elon. (March 2006)

Struggles, and choice test Palestinian voters A four-part series The Boston Globe's Middle East co-bureau chief Anne Barnard examines the Palestinian elections, where voters faced the broadest range of political choices in their history. (January 2006)

For returning unit in Iraq, a battle with doubts Captain John McLaughlin's company of combat veterans has returned to Iraq, exchanging unalloyed enthusiasm for Operation Iraqi Freedom in the spring of 2003 for a mix of professionalism, resignation, and cynicism.   (January 2006)   Includes five audio slideshows

Oil in Africa The fate of Africa's crude oil reserves is important not just for Africans, but for Americans, who use millions of barrels of oil imported from Africa every day. In this three-part series, the Globe's Africa bureau chief, John Donnelly, examines the issue.  (October - December 2005)  Includes audio slideshow

Slow rebirth comes to a wounded land One year after a cataclysmic 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia caused waves up to 90 feet high that devoured coastal communities in 13 nations and killed more than 230,000 people, life across the wounded lands is undergoing a slow but vast rebirth. (December 2005)  Audio slideshow  GRAPHIC: Dealing with disaster

Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005 Pope John Paul II died at age 84 on April 2, 2005, ending one of the most influential papacies in the 2,000-year history of Christianity. This package recaps the days just before and after his death and looks back at an extraordinary life. (April 2005)   Includes photo galleries, video, graphics audio slideshow: Globe reporter Charles Sennott at The Vatican Audio slideshow: Globe reporter Michael Paulson from Rome

Armenians remember the horror The Armenian genocide saw mass killings by Ottoman Turks that led to the deaths of over 1 million between 1915 and 1923. Survivors share their memories in these excerpts.  (April 2005)  Includes three audio slideshows

Congo rising from chaos, isolation Congo has long been blessed by its gold and diamonds but cursed by those who have exploited them -- and brought war with them. Now, Congo has a slender chance to undo the devastation.  (July 2005)    Photos

Inside moderate Islam For millions of Muslims, Islam is not about living by a literal reading of the Koran. It's about finding the peaceful nexus between an ancient faith and modern ways. (May 2005)

Crossing Divides A Globe reporter and photographer spent one year traveling to remote regions on four continents. This is their account of the stark geographic and cultural divides they traversed. (September 2004 - December 2004)   Audio slideshow Includes photo galleries and maps Northern Ireland's uneasy peace It was an article of faith that the Good Friday agreement would tear down the walls dividing Catholic and Protestant Northern Ireland. But five years after the historic accord, the walls -- both literal and figurative -- have grown higher in many places. (July 2003)  Belfast  Finucane case  The future

Lives Lost: None of them had to die This section launched a yearlong effort by the Globe to feature stories on world health challenges and solutions that are within reach. (2003)  Overview Includes photo galleries Nuclear shadow Globe writers David Filipov and Anne Kornblut examined the most worrisome threat in an age of terror: the proliferation of nuclear weapons in dangerous nations. (June 2002)  Includes graphics Obstacles to peace Globe writer Charles Radin studies the roadblocks standing in the way of a lasting peace in the Middle East. (June 2002)