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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 Iraqi soldier carries a displaced child from Ramadi on the outskirts of Baghdad on May 19, 2015.
Conflict
As ISIS seeks revenge in Ramadi, a US veteran fears for his Sunni allies there
An armed motorcade belonging to members of Derna's Islamic Youth Council, consisting of former members of militias from the town of Derna, drive along a road in Derna, eastern Libya October 3, 2014.
Conflict
This man got a glimpse of life under ISIS control — in Libya
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
Militant Islamist fighters hold the flag of ISIS while taking part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province in this June 30, 2014 file photo.
Economics
Oil prices have collapsed, but oil-rich ISIS says it’s still in the black
Music
How ISIS uses catchy, violent tunes for propaganda
A masked man speaking in what is believed to be a North American accent in a video that Islamic State militants released in September 2014.
Conflict
ISIS taunts the West in its latest beheading video
Aleppo's Umayyad mosque in northern Syria. The 8th century structure is labelled "in danger" on UNESCO's list of culturally significant heritage sites.
Conflict
ISIS is waging another war — on culture and history
Suited up for the news, a cartoon by Slovakian cartoonist Marian Kemensky.
Arts
An international cartoonists’ conference shows off the artists’ wit and predictive power
Turkish soldiers stand at a position on the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc on September 24, 2014.
Conflict
Turkey prepares to shift course and take military action against ISIS
Displaced women from the minority Yezidi sect. ISIS is increasingly subjecting women to rape, as well as forced conversions and marriage.
Belief
Some Yazidi women who have escaped ISIS barbarism aren’t hopeful for their futures
This satirical t-shirt was one of many images posted on Twitter under the hashtag #MuslimApologies
Belief
Frustrated Muslims are ‘sorry for algebra’ and many other things
A general view of the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq's largest, in 2009. Today it's being held — barely — by Iraqi forces against ISIS fighters.
Conflict
As the US bombs ISIS oil in Syria, militants lay siege to Iraq’s biggest refinery
Islamic State
Conflict
ISIS? ISIL? The Islamic State? We really still can’t decide?
A man purported to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the miltant group ISIS, during what would have been his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet.
Media
ISIS has mastered high-end video production in its new propaganda wing
Global Politics
Why the ‘Yemen model’ may not work in Iraq — or Yemen
The Iraq War in 2004, captured by Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner
Conflict & Justice
New photos from Iraq trouble photographer who covered the last war
The Iraq War in 2004, captured by Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner
Conflict & Justice
New photos from Iraq trouble photographer who covered the last war