Global

Ibrahim Amro / AFP / Getty

Nasrallah’s Folly

The Hezbollah leader escalated a fight that Israel was only too eager to wage. Now Israel claims to have killed him.

Andrej Vasilenko for The Atlantic

A Secret Diary of Mass Murder

As the Nazis performed executions deep in the Lithuanian woods, one local man took detailed, dispassionate notes. He was unwittingly creating one of the most unusual documents in history.

Illustration by Allison Zaucha / The Atlantic. Sources: Henry Horenstein / Getty; Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty; Getty.

That Time I Was a Russian Propagandist

The Kremlin’s information war in the West is reminiscent of the one it fought—and won—on the home front.

Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro*

The War That Would Not End

Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East