Drew Hinshaw

The cargo ship was attacked on the Red Sea. The crew had three hours to try to save it—and themselves.

On the night of on Feb. 18, chief mate Mahmoud Gwealy awoke to a loud bang. It was a few minutes before 11 p.m., and the Rubymar’s crew would have barely three hours to decide whether and how to save their 563-foot-long ship.

Ten years after the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls became a global phenomenon, most are back home—and Nigeria’s epidemic of abductions is only getting worse.

Switzerland agreed to buy F-35 jet fighters to park on a remote runway. Then the U.S. zeroed in on the Wangs, who owned the rustic hotel next door.

Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, in which he and more than a dozen others jailed by the Kremlin were exchanged for Russians held in the U.S. and Europe, including a convicted murderer.

The effort to bring home The Wall Street Journal reporter and others unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate — his mother.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was turned over to U.S. officials in a choreographed handoff at an airport in Turkey on Thursday. He was among two dozen prisoners from at least six countries involved in an extraordinary swap. Among the others released: Russia received **Vadim Krasik

The prisoner swap–involving at least six countries and two dozen prisoners–was the result of months of secret diplomacy that entailed close coordination among the U.S. and some European allies and a complicated choreography to synchronize the movement of prisoners from multiple countries in order to

Putin romanticizes Moscow’s network of deep-cover operatives, but ethical questions abound.

Putin romanticizes Moscow's network of deep-cover operatives, but ethical questions abound.