Matthieu Aikins

Matt Aikins wins two News and Documentary Emmys for his New York Times investigation into Kabul.

Siddharth Kara’s “Cobalt Red” takes a deep dive into the horrors of mining the valuable mineral — and the many who benefit from others’ suffering.

After barring girls from high school — and harboring an Al-Qaeda leader — the regime now risks jeopardizing the billions of dollars of global aid that still keeps Afghans alive.

As borders tighten and people find new ways to cross them, the shortest distance between two points is rarely a straight line

It’s been six months since the Taliban took over. For starving and displaced Afghans, the situation is dire – and the West’s obligation to help is stronger than ever

After the U.S. withdrawal and with their country’s economy collapsing, countless Afghans are trying to escape. Who does the West consider worthy of saving?

Every year thousands of migrants and refugees flee their home countries, risking their lives to find safe haven. Many do not make it. The myriad difficulties migrants face is reflective of the deep inequalities and violence that persist across borders.

As the U.S. withdrawal approached, analysts thought it would be months before the Taliban brought the fight to Kabul. Instead, to the shock of the world, the Afghan capital fell in a matter of hours. This is the story of why it happened and what came after — by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

We owe the countries we’ve invaded and bombed more than such a narrow lens of the world, a lens we’ve created.

A journey into one of the most remote and dangerous countries in the world.

As the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria beats a bloody path to the gates of the capital, the hard men of the city are fighting back with their own reign of terror.