Marie Colvin was killed by a Syrian airstrike in 2012. As the humanitarian crisis in the last rebel-held province in Syria deteriorates, the U.S. embassy in Syria has commemorated the journalist Marie ...

What does it take to be a war correspondent? What kind of person is drawn to cover death and destruction, and why? Does the reporting make any difference? These questions are raised in “A Private War.

French judges have issued arrest warrants for former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and six top aides for the killing and wounding of a group of journalists during the Syrian civil war in 2012. Among ...

Update 11:15 a.m.: The Sunday Times has lifted its paywall on Colvin's final piece. Shocked by the news of the death of Anthony Shadid, a brilliant journalist and writer whose work glowed with his ...