Daesh

A general view of the Grand al-Nuri mosque during its reconstruction, in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 23, 2020.

Conflict & Justice

Documenting ISIS’ crimes is daunting. Coronavirus makes it even harder.

Jul 20, 2020

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.

A Belgian woman explains why she joined ISIS, and why she came back

Dec 15, 2016

Nouhad was sold to an ISIS fighter when she was 16.

This Yazidi woman escaped her ISIS captors in Mosul, but had to leave her infant son behind

Nov 8, 2016

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.

These men say they’re leaving Syria because they don’t want to fight anyone

Jan 13, 2016

Raqqa air strike

British watchdog group says Russian planes are killing Syrian civilians at an alarming rate

Nov 24, 2015

ISIS black and white flag

Exploring why some say we should call ISIS ‘Daesh’

Nov 17, 2015

Ibrahim Abdel Kader was executed in Turkey in late October. ISIS claimed responsibility.

Raqqa, being slowly slaughtered by ISIS long before French fighter jets attacked

Nov 12, 2015

Poster designed for Iran's anti-ISIS cartoon contest.

Iran hosts an anti-ISIS cartoon contest. What could go wrong?

May 28, 2015

ISIS? ISIL? The Islamic State? We really still can’t decide?

Sep 18, 2014