Mogadishu

Twenty years later, the battle still echoes in America’s top policy circles. As the U.S. sets foot in Somalia again, men who fought in 1993 tell Daniel Klaidman what still haunts them.

Twenty years after Black Hawk Down and after more than a decade of fighting around the world, novelist Lea Carpenter considers the stories we tell about war—and how we struggle to shape meaning and narrative.

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She’s a doctor, a newlywed, a fighter of terrorists in Somalia, and a lover of American shower heads. The strange life of Dr. Deqo Mohamed.

As a war photographer, I witnessed unspeakable acts of violence. When I left that behind to photograph dancers instead, I realized I’d saved my sanity in the nick of time.