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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
Christianne Boudreau lost her son Damian to ISIS. Now she's offering support to parents who've also lost their children to jihadi extremism.
Conflict
‘They look at our children as monsters, and they’re not,’ argues mom of ISIS fighter
Ilwad Elman and her mother Fartuun Adan created the Elman Peace and Human Rights Center in Mogadishu.
Conflict
A Mogadishu-based mother and daughter team say youth can be brought back from religious extremism
An Islamic State fighter gestures from a vehicle in the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after the Islamic State fighters took control of the area in October.
Conflict
The so-called Islamic State looks bleak to outsiders, but supporters see it as ‘liberating’
A man in Tokyo's Ginza district reads an extra edition of a newspaper, which reported ISIS' claim to have beheaded Japanese journalist Kenji Goto on February 1, 2015.
Conflict
The ‘ultra-violent death cult’ at the heart of ISIS
Christianne Boudreau and her son Damian Clairmont who died fighting for an extremist group in Syria.
Justice
Christianne Boudreau lost her son when he went to fight with ISIS. Now she’s doing something about it.
Families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul arrive at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Arbil.
Conflict & Justice
Why some residents of Mosul see a silver lining in the jihadi takeover
Families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul arrive at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Arbil.
Conflict & Justice
Why some residents of Mosul see a silver lining in the jihadi takeover
Conflict & Justice
The number of global jihadis is increasing, but Americans aren’t necessarily less safe