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ISIS

Can Social Security Be Saved?
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Two women wearing black veils walk outside past a sign with Arabic text.
The women of ISIS are more than just brides
Al-Hurra
Combating Extremist Ideology Since 9/11
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Trump-Russia Summit Fallout Continues As Putin Gets Invite to D.C.
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Mythmaking and MS-13: Americans in Fear of an Exaggerated Threat
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Merger Mania: Corporate Consolidations Promise Lofty Returns, Can They Deliver?
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Arts, Culture & Media
Compounding the Paris Tragedy, a Blow to Culture
Syrian Democratic Forces fighters dance along a street in Raqqa, Syria, on Oct. 18, 2017.
Conflict
Raqqa liberated from ISIS: ‘My city is now ruined and burned down’
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) celebrate the defeat of ISIS in Raqqa, Syria.
Conflict
A Raqqa resident asks why militia had to destroy his city to liberate it
Iraqi security forces advance in military vehicles in Kirkuk on Oct. 16, 2017.
Conflict
US allies turn their US guns on each other in Iraq
Captives suspected of being Islamic State militants are seen southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq.
Conflict
Nearly a thousand ISIS fighters choose surrender, not martyrdom, in Iraq
Lucas Chapman in Rojava, Syria.
Conflict
For some Americans, the conflict in Syria is ‘the Spanish Civil War of our time’
A convoy of ISIS fighters and their families begin to depart from the Lebanon-Syria border in Qalamoun, Syria, on Aug. 28, 2017.
Conflict
The US bombs path of ISIS convoy in Syria after a controversial withdrawal deal
Yazidi rebaptism ceremony in Iraq
Conflict
Photos: Yazidi women undergo a rebirth ceremony after ISIS enslavement
Fighting continues in Syria, where Kurdish troops from the People's Protection Units are facing down ISIS militants in Raqqa, Syria.
Conflict
Is Syria ‘the war of our time, a humanitarian test of our time?’
A boy, displaced from fighting in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, walks in the desert near the village of Karama, east of Raqqa, July 1st 2017
Conflict
What to do with captured women and children of ISIS?
A surfer falls from his board while riding after sunset in Cardiff, California.
Books
The radicalization of a surfer dude
A view of part of western Mosul, Iraq, on May 29.
Conflict
Were high civilian casualties in Mosul unavoidable?
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS
Conflict
Syrian rights monitor says ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead
Iraqi Federal Police celebrate in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq on July 8, 2017.
Conflict
Iraq’s prime minister declares victory against ISIS in ‘liberated’ Mosul
Mourners carry the coffin of a member of Iraqi security forces, killed during clashes in Mosul.
Conflict
ISIS is cornered in Mosul’s Old City. Militants are using everything they’ve got to hold on.
A boy is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in Tehran, Iran.
Global Politics
Trump’s barbed condolences land with a thud in Iran
Car bomb in Baghdad
Conflict
ISIS bombs an ice cream shop in Baghdad
Marawi residents are evacuated from their city in the southern Philippines on May 24, 2017.
Conflict
The truth about those ISIS-style flags waving in the Philippines
A woman in London's Trafalgar Square at a vigil for the victims of an attack on concert goers in Manchester Arena.
Conflict
The possible motives behind the Manchester attack
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) stand near US military vehicles in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria, April 29, 201
Conflict
Trump authorizes Pentagon to directly arm Syrian Kurds in fight against ISIS
A member of ISIS waves the group's flag in Raqqa, Syria in June 2014.
Conflict
An FBI translator married the ISIS fighter she was spying on
Children play with a kite at a shelter for displaced Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, northern Iraq.
Conflict
Years after US Iraq intervention, Yazidis are still seeking safety on a mountain
Tow trucks move the beer truck that crashed into the department store Ahlens after plowing down the Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 7, 2017.
Conflict
ISIS has detailed instructions for carrying out truck attacks. They’re pretty horrifying.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir
Trump’s approach to the Middle East
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A displaced Iraqi woman, who fled from clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq
Conflict
ISIS has found a new, deadly use for human shields in Mosul
Some former Islamic State fighters, like this captive Abdel Rahman in Kirkuk, say if they hadn't agreed to join ISIS they would have been killed.
Conflict
Sitting across from ‘the Ghost of ISIS’
Lina Shahab is recovering in a hospital in Erbil, northern Iraq, after surviving an airstrike in Mosul.
Conflict
‘I saw everything burning’: Iraqi survivors of a suspected US coalition airstrike speak
Iraqi rapid response members fire a missile against ISIS militants in Mosul, Iraq, on March 11.
Conflict
US says ISIS fighters are ‘trapped’ as Iraq retakes a third of western Mosul
The Marines deploying in Syria reportedly have M777 howitzers, seen here with artillerymen at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.
Conflict
US Marines are deploying to fight ISIS in Raqqa, Syria
Black and white flag on roof of building
Conflict
Everyone has an opinion about Donald Trump, including ISIS recruits
Protesters from Amnesty International USA and other organizations rally outside the White House to demand the closure of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, on Jan. 11, 2016.
Conflict
#33. @realDonaldTrump What are your specific plans for Guantanamo? #100Days100Qs
Aleppo
Conflict
A timeline of the Islamic State’s gains and losses in Iraq and Syria
Iraqi soldiers inspect the remains of the Tomb of Prophet Yunus, destroyed by Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq, January 28, 2017.
Media
What’s the battle to retake Mosul like? This documentary takes you there.
Capt. Khatoon Khider, left, commander of the all-female Yazidi Sun Brigade, with her sister, Aliya, in a home near the city of Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Sept. 24.
Conflict
These Yazidi sisters took up arms to take revenge against ISIS
Riyad al-Jaboury, an Iraqi English teacher, with his birds in his yard in Hamam al-Alil, northern Iraq.
Conflict
ISIS forced this Iraqi teacher to change all his lessons — ‘it became all about death’
Zikra Younis, right, and her daughter Huda at the Khazer camp for displaced people. The camp is east of the Iraqi city of Mosul, where they escaped from last November.
Conflict
This Iraqi woman escaped ISIS and a bad marriage, all for the love of her children
A child holds bullets picked from the ground, in Rounyn, a village located about 15 kilometers north of Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur, Sudan, on March 27, 2011.
Conflict
For Sudan, breaking ties with its radical past is a ‘delicate balancing act’
Kerawa Cameroon Boko Haram
Conflict
Cameroon has been using witchcraft to fight Boko Haram
Iraqi soldiers gather during a battle with ISIS militants, north of Mosul, Iraq, December 30, 2016.
Conflict
A New Year’s report card for ISIS
Laura Passoni took her four-year-old son to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS and realized quickly she'd made a terrible mistake. "From that moment I did everything to try to leave so that my son wouldn’t become a terrorist,” she says.
Books
A Belgian woman explains why she joined ISIS, and why she came back
Iraqi special forces intelligence agents check men's IDs in the search for Islamic State fighters in Mosul, Iraq on Nov. 27.
Conflict
What happens to ISIS fighters when they are captured
Future of the ACA, Trump’s Business Interests, The NSA reacts to Russia
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A group of kids play in the Mosul
Conflict
Civilians fleeing Mosul face a deadly journey to freedom
Iraqi men at a barber shop in the Intisar district of Mosul
Conflict
ISIS jailed and beat up this Iraqi barber for giving the wrong haircut
Nouhad was sold to an ISIS fighter when she was 16.
Conflict
This Yazidi woman escaped her ISIS captors in Mosul, but had to leave her infant son behind
A US armed forces member stands near a military vehicle, north of Raqqa, Syria on Nov. 6.
Conflict
US-backed forces launch assault on ISIS ‘capital’ in Syria
A group of Mosul exiles set up al-Ghad radio station to reach people in their city under ISIS control. The station manager says it's also helping people in the city communicate with one another.
Media
This Iraqi radio station reaches people in Mosul who risk their lives to call in
A newly displaced man carries a boy at a check point in Qayyara, east of Mosul, Iraq on Oct. 26.
Conflict
UN says ISIS is marching thousands into Mosul as human shields
A police cadet injured during the attack on the Police Training Center lies in bed in a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan.
Conflict
Attackers kill dozens of sleeping cadets at Pakistani police academy in Quetta
A woman and her child, having fled Qayyarah, arrive at a front line position.
Conflict
Life under ISIS is ‘endlessly frightening and endlessly tedious’
U.S. Terror Threats, Mexico’s Missing, Trotsky in New York
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Syria ceasefire
Conflict
Syria ceasefire seems to be holding — for now
IS spokesman and head of external operations Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is pictured in this undated handout photo, courtesy the U.S. Department of State.
Conflict
Who was Abu Muhammad al-Adnani and what does his death mean for ISIS?
Turkish tanks driving toward Karkamis on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey, on Aug. 27.
Conflict
US allies are fighting each other in northern Syria. Here’s why.