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Originally published in Vice Magazine, January 28, 2013
William Wold seemed fine [...]

GRAPHIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES VISIBLE When a thirteen-year-old Afghan boy named Habibullah caught his arms in a flour mill they were nearly shredded from his body. The only hope to save both his [...]

On the streets of Fallujah, Iraq in 2004, veteran journalist Kevin Sites interviewed William Wold (Video link, starts at 23:00), a young Marine emotionally charged from combat, who had killed six [...]

Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War By Kevin Sites (Harper Perennial; 295 pages; $15.99 paperback) When soldiers discuss their [...]

MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images A US Army soldier attached to 2nd platoon, C troop, 1st Squadron (Airborne) ,91st U.S Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team operating under the NATO [...]

Journalist Kevin Sites reported from Afghanistan when the United States invaded in 2001, and he has been back a handful of times. With U.S. and NATO troops scheduled to withdraw next year, Sites [...]

Author and Producer Kevin Sites and his new book Swimming With Warlords: A Dozen Year Journey Across the Afghan War Award-winning backpack journalist and author Kevin Sites traded a high profile [...]

Journalist Kevin Sites joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “Swimming with Warlords,” which finds him returning to Afghanistan 10 years after his first visit in 2001.   [...]

Even before a much-touted fall offensive in Kandahar Province, the United States suffered its deadliest month yet in Afghanistan with 66 Americans killed in July. GlobalPost’s Kevin Sites looks [...]

Video: Afghan security contractors undermine the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — When a commercial convoy hauling supplies for U.S. and NATO bases came under attack from [...]

A report originally filed for Global Post concerning the advent of summer (2010) and the NATO offensive to push the Taliban out of their strongholds in Kandahar and Southern Afghanistan.

EXTREMELY GRAPHIC IMAGES: VIOLENCE, WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND DEAD BODIES. NOT NOT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that [...]

VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES: VIOLENCE, WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND DEAD BODIES. NOT NOT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that [...]

GRAPHIC IMAGES: VIOLENCE, WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND DEAD BODIES. NOT NOT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends [...]

At the table with the patient with the leg wound, Staff Sgt. Ben Swob, part of the newly arrived group notices the injury site is beginning to bleed again—heavily. He decides, unilaterally, to [...]

WARNING: SOME GRAPHIC MEDICAL PROCEDURES DEPICTED U.S. Combat Medics mostly from 3.2 Cavalry and newly deployed to Afghanistan, surround the gurneys, five or six per victim, as if they were [...]

After six hours on the road, Afghan National Army soldiers wave down the convoy and tell them about what they believe is a bomb in an abandoned building near the roadside. Staff Sgt. William [...]

After six hours on the road, Afghan National Army soldiers wave down the convoy and tell them about what they believe is a bomb in an abandoned building near the roadside. Staff Sgt. William [...]

In Afghanistan, war is increasingly waged by robots, unmanned aircraft and remote control. In this video a soldier based at Ghundy Gar, a dusty hillside combat outpost in the Zhari district of [...]

In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics — they share the truth about their wars. For each of them it means [...]

MSNBC.com’s exclusive feature-length documentary “The Umbrella Movement” reflects on the hopes, clashes, symbols, guardians, memories and frustrations of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests with [...]

As a journalist for NBC News, Kevin Sites made his first trip to Afghanistan in October 2001, crossing the Amu Darya River at night, traveling with Northern Alliance fighters as they toppled the [...]

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This is the powerful opening montage to the documentary “A World of Conflict” which follows reporter Kevin Sites on his journey to cover every major war zone in the world in one year. [...]

This is Chapter 2 – Somalia, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the [...]

This is Chapter 3 – The Congo, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In [...]

This is Chapter 4 – Uganda, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the [...]

This is Chapter 5 – Iraq, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the [...]

This is Chapter 6 – Lebanon & Gaza, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, [...]

This is Chapter 7 – on Kinneret, a suicide bombing survivor, in the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in [...]

This is Chapter 8 – Iran, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the [...]

This is Chapter 9, The Beslan School Massacre, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, [...]

This is Chapter 10, Afghanistan, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the [...]

This is Chapter 11, Gulsoma, Afghan Child Bride of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, [...]

This is Chaper 12, Nepal and Kashmir, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In [...]

This is Chapter 13, Sri Lanka, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot [...]

Chapter 14, Israel-Hezbollah War The war between Israel and Hezbollah shook the landscape in the Middle East. Kevin Sites covered the crisis for a month, from both sides of the divide. He [...]

This is Chapter 15, Credits, of the documentary “A World of Conflict” in which reporter Kevin Sites covers every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot [...]

Journalist and author Kevin Sites discusses the motivations and intentions behind his hot zone war coverage project which is now a book by Harper Perennial.

Before Virginia Tech, before Columbine, there was Paducah. Watch the video & read the whole story on http//hotzone.yahoo.com

Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist [...]

In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics—they share the truth about their wars. For each of them it means something [...]

Girls and Guns… cockfighting… extreme martial arts… Jason Atkins aims to show the most extreme sports on the net.

Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy is on a mission to cover every homicide that occurs in L.A. County this year. Her tally so far? Over 700.

Halloween fanatics meet your guru. Tom Nardone is putting the fear back on the faces of jack-0′-lanterns with a little help from pyrotechnics and power tools. No more “cutesy” [...]