While reporting the war in western Libya, award-winning Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was seized by Gaddafi's militia. Here he describes two weeks inside the regime's brutal prison system.

Special report: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Afghanistan meets a growing community of part-time expat jihadists.

In the second of his special reports from Yemen, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad finds a population for whom the constant danger of tribal feuds is exacerbated by the presence of al-Qaida.

Dubbed an 'urgent security priority' by the US, Yemen has become a regional hub for al-Qaida. In the first of two special reports, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets the group's new fighters.

In the first of a series of exclusive reports in the run-up to next week's Afghan elections, award-winning correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets a group of Taliban in their mountain stronghold.

In a rare dispatch from war-ravaged Mogadishu, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad found a city daring to hope for a break from years of violence. Then the fighting resumed.

Exclusive report from a Taliban veteran's compound in Afghanistan and on the battlefield.

As a boy in Baghdad, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was taught that Iranians were the 'worms of the earth'. Now, 20 years after the Iran-Iraq war, he visits Tehran to seek out veterans, officers, dissidents and Islamists, to hear their stories. How does he feel today about his old enemy?