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Islamic State

Students gather to take a group picture during the library repat the University of Mosul in front of the theatre on Feb. 19, 2022.
Culture
After years of conflict and rebuilding, Mosul University’s Central Library marks new beginning  
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
Conflict
The Iran accord is going to change everything
Conflict
The US is killing more civilians in Iraq and Syria than it acknowledges
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
Civilians flee Mosul March 25 2017
Conflict
US-led strikes may have just killed dozens of civilians in Mosul
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
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
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 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
Conflict
The Islamic State is kicking out Christians
Conflict
True or false? 15 rumors about the Islamic State, fact-checked
Conflict
There are reports of the Islamic State executing dozens of Yazidis
Conflict
60 Seconds on Earth: What it’s like to be displaced by the Islamic State (VIDEO)
Conflict
Hundreds of thousands of minorities in Iraq are fleeing the Islamic State (PHOTOS)
Politics
This man has lost 63 relatives to the Islamic State
Conflict
Iraq’s Christians feel the US and the church have abandoned them
Conflict
How the US pulled off its humanitarian aid missions to the Yazidis
Conflict
This 84-year-old woman crawled on her knees to safety to escape the Islamic State
Conflict
No more Mr. Nice Islamic State
Conflict
Why is the Islamic State still so strong?
Conflict
Islamic State continues onslaught as US mulls military intervention
Conflict
On Location Video: The Yazidis who survived the assault on Sinjar
Conflict
‘If it wasn’t for the Kurdish fighters, we would have died up there’
Conflict
On Location Video: What the front-line fight against the Islamic State looks like
Conflict
What the fall of Raqqa might mean for those threatened by IS rule
Conflict
Captured by the Islamic State, these two Sinjar teens went through hell. Then they ran
Conflict
On Location Video: The Yazidi men and boys who survived an Islamic State execution