"I decided to be the one to show what was really going on in Vietnam. Here was something of profound importance. My goal was to present every aspect of the war in a digestible way between two covers of a book."

“It’s not actually the dead, the physical destruction, that takes the toll: It’s this sense of this endless cycle. It’s hard to go and watch the similar sort of circumstances play themselves out over and over again.”

"While covering the war in Lebanon, bombs and missiles were exploding around us, but you never saw who was launching them. It was different from all the wars I had covered before. This might be the way future wars look."

“I’m embedded with the Americans in Iraq. As a Westerner, there is no more access to the insurgent’s side. I don’t claim to have any overview. History made my choice—it’s fine!”

As his first order of business, President Obama, signed executive orders to close Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and end the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program.

Christopher Anderson covered the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel from its first days. In this story he gives a look behind the frontlines of the war through pictures and sound that he recorded in the field.

On April 3, 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces had launched an assault on Jenin refugee camp, home to some 14,000 Palestinians. At least fifty-two Palestinians were killed and more than a quarter of the camp's population were left homeless. Larry Towell photographed the aftermath.