Editor’s Note: It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 14 years since Extortion 17 was brought down in the Tangi Valley, southwest of Kabul, in Afghanistan. What follows is a listing of common myths and ...

Amid this waiting, a devastating new blade of extortion has descended. With the election approaching, extortion has taken on a new variant—beyond all imagination. There is no distinction between small ...

A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations. A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a ...