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Islamic State

Children play in a mud puddle in the section for foreign families at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria on March 31, 2019.
Displacement
Thousands of children are stranded at a camp in northern Syria. Who will repatriate them?
Two women wearing black veils walk outside past a sign with Arabic text.
The women of ISIS are more than just brides
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
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 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
Car bomb in Baghdad
Conflict
ISIS bombs an ice cream shop in Baghdad
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.
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
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
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
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 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 TSA agent wears a black ribbon over his badge during a memorial service for a slain colleague.
Books
How the fight against terrorism has transformed America since 9/11
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.
Turkish army tanks and Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters make their way in the Syrian border town of Jarablus on Aug. 24.
Conflict
Turkey sends more tanks into Syria to fight ISIS — and to block US-backed Kurds
Twitter and terror
Conflict
Twitter cuts off 235,000 accounts in terror crackdown
Conflict
Corsica says no to the burkini
Souad Hamidi, 19, removes the niqab she said she had been forced to wear since 2014, after U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces took control of her village in northern Syria from Islamic State fighters on June 9, 2016.
Conflict
ISIS is losing its so-called state, so it’s shifting its message
​Iraqi soldiers reload a weapon during clashes with Islamic State militants on the outskirts of Makhmour, south of Mosul, Iraq.
Conflict
What it’s like to find your name on an ISIS hit list
A Brazilian soldier stands guard outside the 2016 Rio Olympics Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 21.
Conflict
Ten arrested in Brazil after online chatter about attacking the Rio Olympics
Nice attack
Conflict
Jihadist group claims it inspired Nice truck attacker
A member of the Nusra Front climbs a pole where the al-Qaeda-affiliate's flag was raised at a central square in the northwestern Syrian city of Ariha, in Idlib province, after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the area on May 29, 2015.
Conflict
The other Islamic state: al-Qaeda is still fighting for an emirate of its own
Aviation ordinancemen organize 1000 pound MK-83 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) bombs on their racks on the flight deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in this archival photo taken in the northern Persian Gulf March 18, 2003.
Conflict
The US is dropping bombs quicker than it can make them
An employee works at strengthening the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, in February 2016.
Conflict
Mosul Dam could be scarier than ISIS
ISIS black and white flag
Fighting ISIS At Home & Abroad
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Young migrants and refugees walk through a town in northern Serbia toward the Hungarian border. There's a fear that young men like these might bring violence with them.
Conflict
These men say they’re leaving Syria because they don’t want to fight anyone
ISIS black and white flag
Culture
Exploring why some say we should call ISIS ‘Daesh’
People observe a minute of silence at the Trocadero in front the Eiffel Tower to pay tribute to the victims of the series of deadly attacks on Friday in Paris, France, November 16, 2015.
Conflict
Why did the attackers target France?
Ibrahim Abdel Kader was executed in Turkey in late October. ISIS claimed responsibility.
Conflict
Raqqa, being slowly slaughtered by ISIS long before French fighter jets attacked
The "Colonel," 48, looks out at a small village outside Kirkuk littered with homemade bombs from ISIS militants. He team has to clear away IEDs set by ISIS militants, but they have little equipment to do the job.
Conflict
Kurdish bomb experts defuse IEDs on a shoestring
Militant Islamist fighters hold the flag of Islamic State (IS) while taking part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province in this June 30, 2014 file photo.
Conflict
In Iraq, the battle against ISIS rages — in Syria there is little resistance
Jihadi John
Conflict
Who is Jihadi John — and why will so many people be happy if he is dead?
A Jordanian protester cries during a march after Friday prayers in downtown Amman February 6, 2015.
Conflict
Jordanians rally against the Islamic State
Veiled women sit as they chat in a garden in the ISIS-controlled province of Raqqa in northern Syria.
Conflict
In ISIS-held territory, the Great Satan is the beauty shop
Policemen who fled Mosul train in a camp near Erbil to try to take their city back from ISIS.
Conflict
The men who ran from ISIS in Mosul say they’re ready to take the city back
Freed Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg stands outside the Home Office with his father, Azmat, after delivering a petition in London on March 14, 2005.
Justice
Former Guantanamo detainee says the UK rejected his offer to help save an ISIS hostage
Rise of ISIS panel
Conflict
ISIS may disappear much faster than you expect
Jordan Matson's profile picture on Facebook
Conflict
A veteran from Wisconsin explains why he joined the fight against ISIS
The view across the Kawar Gosk refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Northern Iraq.
Conflict
Refugees who have escaped ISIS will soon have to battle winter weather