EditorialA Pashai militiaman keeps watch for Islamic State fighters in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan, on Feb. 15, 2019. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialJan Bibi, left, 40, lost her husband, who was a militiaman in the fighting in Malestan, now resides at Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi's house in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 20, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialA militiaman votes at a polling station in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times)