Iason Athanasiadis was released, as you can read at the top of GlobalPost. Iason, a freelance journalist who had been writing for GlobalPost in Iran, was detained without charge for nearly three weeks by the Iranian government. He was picked up ...Read More
At GlobalPost, the most celebrated work our journalists do is ground truth. Being there on the ground for the story is what matters. And Iason Athanasiadis, a freelance writer and contributor to GlobalPost who was detained while working in Iran last ...Read More
KABUL – Enter the steel gates that lead to the courtyard and well-tended gardens of a faded, but still elegant manse where Nancy Hatch Dupree greets us on the steps. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="Photography by: Seamus Murphy"][/caption] For a moment, you ...Read More
ISLAMABAD – As the Pakistan International Airlines flight touched down here, I noticed that the in-flight screen featured the lush landscape of the Swat Valley with a promotional message: “Pakistan, heaven on earth.” Not exactly. And definitely not these days with a ...Read More
Cindy Kane is an extraordinary artist who is drawn to war. Like many foreign correspondents who can't quite explain what it is that pulls them in the direction of conflict, she set out to tell the story of the wars ...Read More
We needed this one. As a country that has too often found itself confronting the futility of its force in the post 9-11 world, the patient, well-executed US Navy mission that freed Captain Richard Phillips came as a welcome ending ...Read More
Teddy Roosevelt would have known what to do with these pirates. In his day he went after them with everything he had. In 1907, there was a famous naval standoff in which Barbary pirates held an American for ransom. It was a ...Read More
From our headquarters here at GlobalPost, the boom of the cannon from the USS Constitution just sounded. The ceremonial firing of the cannon happens every night at exactly sunset and it echoes across Boston harbor to Lewis Wharf where we ...Read More
As a foreign correspondent, I covered the Holy Land for many years. But then I came back to Boston to the true Promised Land: Fenway Park. And yesterday, opening day for the Red Sox, represents a kind of religious holiday ...Read More
Check out our ace on the global economy, Thomas Mucha, on NPR's Talk of the Nation which aired today. Tom, who is our Managing Editor for Correspondents, has been leading our outstanding coverage of the global economy and today he ...Read More
GroundTruth is written by Charles Sennott, the Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost. The blog is a way for GlobalPost to let you know what our correspondents all over the world are covering every day. It is a place where Sennott highlights the best work in the field by a stellar team of correspondents . 