The grisly fate of more than 16,000 soldiers and civilians during the First Anglo-Afghan War serves as a timeless lesson in hubris and bad leadership

This staff sergeant became the first living US Army veteran of the Iraq War to receive the Medal of Honor, following fierce close-quarters combat during the Second Battle of Fallujah

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Harrowing images reveal civilians being killed, starved and forced from their homes, living each day in fear amid Sudan’s civil war

Conflict photography has been manipulated in a range of ways since the medium began, as Hilary Roberts reveals in her new book. She talks to David Clark