A kaleidoscopic hail of tracer fire swept across the alley — green, red, orange — casting a neon glow on the darkened streets of Mogadishu. Shell casings showered down from helicopters as Spc. Arthur ...

When you’re out of ammunition, you don’t want to get into a debate with your battle buddies about how to fix the situation, but that is apparently what happened to a foreign volunteer fighting in ...