For four decades, families in Afghanistan and Pakistan have seen near-constant war, oppression and suffering. How has political instability helped grow fundamentalist extremism and created a safe-havens for al-Qaeda?


An elite team of CNN journalists put their lives at risk to take viewers inside the world's most dangerous region.

CNN's Soledad O'Brien travels with 30 "global ambassadors" from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to South Africa with Malaak Compton-Rock's "Journey for Change" mission to mentor at-risk youth.
• Behind the Scenes: Out of Bushwick

• Soledad: We are in Africa! | Visit to a Shantytown | Return to Bushwick
• Kids' Notebooks: February | November to January | Aug. 3 | Aug. 4 | Aug. 6 | Aug. 9 | Aug. 10 | Aug. 19 | Aug. 24 | Sept. 22 | Oct. 15 | March
Special Report: Black in America 2008

CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta followed a mother, a writer, a student and a husband. Each an addict on a journey through recovery & relapse. Could their brain hold the key to addiction?


• Recovery high school for post-rehab teens
• Anti-addiction pills may turn rehab on its head
• Relapse a constant threat, author says
• Addiction's lure to the brain

Thirty years ago, 909 Americans were led to their death by the Rev. Jim Jones in a mass murder-and-suicide pact in a South American jungle, shortly after Jones' gunmen killed a visiting U.S. congressman and four others at a nearby air strip.

Of the nearly 1,000 church members who began the day in Jonestown that morning, only 33 survived to see the next day.

They lived through that day and night only by unfathomable courage, rooted in desperation and daring. And even 30 years later, many still feel the pain and the loss of those they had to leave behind.

CNN's Soledad O'Brien tells their story in a prime-time special, "Escape from Jonestown"

• Jim Jones' preaching style captivated followers
• Cyanide deaths plotted years before Jonestown
• CNN's Jim Polk remembers tragedy
• Children were first to die at Jonestown
• Leslie Wilson fled with baby through jungle
• Book excerpt: 'Slavery of Faith'
• Interactive: Jim Jones' sermons | FBI documents
• Rev. Jim Jones stockpiled cyanide
• Jerry Parks: 'You could feel death in the air'
• Lost in the jungle: Girl escapes after mother killed
• Final 45 minutes of Jonestown massacre
• Inside Jonestown | List of survivors
• Documentary full credits