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How did El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, wind up with the highest per capita murder rate on Earth?

These Muammar Gaddafi facts illustrate that this controversial Libyan leader is marked by both unparalleled successes and dramatic failures.

The U.S. has aligned itself with some truly brutal regimes in order to promote and protect its own interests. For thousands around the world, that alliance has proven fatal.

Concerns over racism are about to bring this centuries-old practice to an end.

Many of the security dilemmas the U.S. now faces stem from the CIA's actions abroad — here are a handful you should know about.

Big game hunters shoot an estimated 50,000 rare animals a year in Africa. What sort of person does this, how do they do it, and why?

The cost of education in the Islamic State is far worse than anything you could imagine.

The way we treat the dead says a lot about our values, and as you might anticipate those values are diverse.

During World War II, the Warsaw Ghetto was home to victims and criminals. The Jewish collaborators who worked for the Gestapo were both.