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Bollywood actresses from left, Siddhi Idnani, Yogita Bihani, Sonia Balani, Adah Sharma and producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah during a press conference for the movie "The Kerala Story" in Mumbai, India, May 17, 2023.
Media
Is the fictional film ‘The Kerala Story’ cautionary or propaganda?
people walking down the street in a devastated area of the city
Conflict & Justice
4 years later, the legacy of ISIS prevents these Iraqi children from going to school
A three-image combo of stills taken from CCTV footage shows Kadiza Sultana, left, Shamima Begum, centre and and Amira Abase going through security at Gatwick airport
Justice
Reports show British teenager was allegedly trafficked to ISIS by Canadian agent
Soldiers with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces check a house in Hassakeh, Syria, Jan. 25, 2022. After breaking into the prison late Thursday, ISIS militants were joined by others rioting inside the facility that housed over 3,000 inmates, including
Youth
Three months after ISIS attacked a prison in northeast Syria, the fate of at least 100 child detainees remains unclear
A Kurdish security officer escorts Alexanda Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh
Justice
Former ISIS member is found guilty in US federal court
Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers hold a position in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Jan. 27, 2022.
Conflict & Justice
A prison battle in Syria puts the spotlight on the plight of child detainees
Two women are shown hugging each other with the entrance and red-lettered sign of the Bataclan concert hall in the background.
Justice
Emotions raw before Paris trial for ISIS carnage
Two men are shown sitting on a sofa with Alexanda Amon Kotey on the left, wearing a blue sweatshirt.
Extremism
British national pleads guilty to role in terror beheadings
Afghan people are seen near the building where insurgents were hiding during an attack to the prison in the city of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
How will the Taliban interact with militant groups like ISIS-K and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?
Several people are shown standing around a bombed out car, chared from the explosion.
Top of The World
Rockets targeting Kabul airport intercepted
A group of military personel are shown carrying a flag-drapped coffin and walking toward US President Joe Biden and other cabinet officials.
Conflict
US military flies out evacuees in waning hours of withdrawal
A larger crowd of people are shown crammed up against large cement barriers with barbed-wire on top.
2 suicide attacks outside Kabul airport
Several military officers are shown in a line, and heavily armed, walking on an open tarmac area with mountains in the distance.
Top of The World
Explosion outside of the Kabul airport
In this Aug. 30, 2019 photo, Layla Taloo visits the Ninewa Palace Hotel, where she was once brought by her Islamic State militant captor in Mosul, Iraq.
Critical State
Sexual violence in conflict: Part I
A group of men are shown carrying a casket on their shoulders drapped with a blanket.
Top of The World
ISIS claims killing of 3 women media workers in Afghanistan
Two people carry luggage down a bombed out street in Mosul.
Critical State
Civilian decisions in conflict: Part I
An Afghan security person is shown holding a large rifle pointed up and wear a helmut and other military-grade equipment.
Top of The World
Hundreds missing after Afghanistan prison attack; Iran’s underreported coronavirus death toll; 90 minute COVID-19 test in Britain
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.
A row of brick shelters are shown amidst a sandy desert location with three people walking in the distance.
Top of The World
Court rules Shamima Begum can return to Britain for appeal; Russian hackers accused of trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research; Privacy Shield ruled invalid
A poster depicting the former government adviser and political analyst Husham al-Hashimi, who was killed by gunmen, is seen in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, July 8, 2020.
Global Politics
Iraqi security expert’s assassination in Baghdad has left many in shock
A group of men stand in a row in green grass under a blue sky.
Critical State
It’s time for the US to rethink Huntington’s philosophy: Part II
An Afghan nurse observes newborn children who lost their mothers during an attack at a hospital, in Kabul, May 13, 2020.
Extremism
Shocked Afghans ask why perpetrators targeted a maternity hospital and a funeral 
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu speaking at a press conference.
Conflict & Justice
Europe is ‘terrified’ ISIS fighters will go free if repatriated
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is shown in a black shawl and turbine speaking into a microphone.
Conflict & Justice
Trump says ISIS leader Baghdadi dead in US raid
fire
Conflict & Justice
Does the chaos in Syria help ISIS?
An image distributed by ISIS militants on social media purports to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
I’m one of hundreds of archaeologists exiled from Syria who’s mourning what the war is costing us
Can Social Security Be Saved?
Full Episode
A crowd of older women are shown with their hands folded in prayer
Conflict & Justice
Sri Lanka blasts were revenge for New Zealand mosque killings
woman wearing military fatigues holds a gun
Thousands of ISIS fighters sit in prison. Kurdish leaders call for a special tribunal.
Lydie Maninchedda's daughter Julie is shown in a black and white portrait photograph of her when she was a child.
Conflict & Justice
Should France repatriate the children of ISIS fighters?
Two women wearing black veils walk outside past a sign with Arabic text.
The women of ISIS are more than just brides
Civilians walk in a line in the desert.
ISIS militants continue to surrender, but US military warns of a resurgence
Black plumes of smoke are shown rising up and to the left of the photo with bombed out buildings below in Baghouz, Syria.
Conflict & Justice
Some ISIS jihadists surrender in eastern Syria but an unknown number remain
A man in combat fatigues is captured in a YouTube video screen grab
An American family is helping those left behind in Syria as ISIS withdraws
US troops are shown in the near ground with a helicopter flying in the background.
Conflict & Justice
US committed to pulling foreign forces out of Afghanistan
A masked Syria fighter stands in front of an American tank and some troops.
Global Politics
When the US pulls out of Syria, what happens to ISIS?
US troops driving armored vehicles are show driving on a road patroling near the Turkish border in Hasakah, Syria, 2018.
US eyes complete withdrawal of troops from Syria
Passengers walk on a platform before boarding a train to Fallujah.
Development
Iraq gets on board with new rail service to Fallujah through former ISIS territory
This is a combined composition with two portraits: Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad on the left and Denis Mukwege on the right.
Congolese doctor, Yazidi activist win Nobel Peace Prize for combating sexual violence
Al-Hurra
Combating Extremist Ideology Since 9/11
Full Episode
Trump-Russia Summit Fallout Continues As Putin Gets Invite to D.C.
Full Episode
Mythmaking and MS-13: Americans in Fear of an Exaggerated Threat
Full Episode
The Yarmouk Palestinian camp near Damascus, Syria, April 28, 2018.
Conflict
Palestinian refugees bear the brunt of Syria’s new battle against ISIS
Merger Mania: Corporate Consolidations Promise Lofty Returns, Can They Deliver?
Full Episode
A man points left to a car that shows the impact of a bomb blast in Kabul.
Conflict
Blast at election center in Afghan capital kills dozens
Author Asne Seierstad
Books
The journey of two sisters into the Syrian jihad, and a father’s efforts to rescue them
Arts, Culture & Media
Compounding the Paris Tragedy, a Blow to Culture
A court artist drawing shows Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects in the 2015 ISIS attacks in Paris, in court during his trial in Brussels, Belgium.
Conflict
‘Judge me’: Paris suspect refuses to answer Belgian court
Two men are covered in dust from an explosion. One has blood on his face, the other has his head wrapped in bandages and he is on a cell phone as others help support him as he walks.
Conflict
At least 95 dead after ambulance attack in Kabul
St. Shmuni Church in Bartella, Iraq, shows damage sustained while the town was under ISIS control for two years.
Conflict
ISIS turned this young Iraqi Christian into an atheist
Members of the Iraqi security forces stand guard as Ameen Mukdad, a violinist from Mosul who lived under ISIS's rule for two and a half years, performs at Nabi Yunus shrine in eastern Mosul.
Conflict
It’s not just territory. ISIS is losing ground online too.
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
A group of men wearing camouflage clothing and FBI vests stand next to an armored car outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel in the pre-dawn light.
Conflict
There’s no evidence linking the Las Vegas attack to ISIS. So why did the group claim responsibility?
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?’