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Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / Getty Images The ‘Caliphate’ Is Gone. Where’s the ‘Caliph’?
As the war on the Islamic State moves into a new phase, its leadership tries to adapt.
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Ari Jalal / Reuters How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion
Those who went into exile have creatively adapted their rituals. Those who stayed have been just as innovative.
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Jane Roseburg / Reuters How Can America Hit ISIS 'Harder' When the Caliphate Is Gone?
The problem of responding to attackers without a state
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Delil Souleiman / Getty The Myth of the ISIS Female Suicide Bomber
She is almost entirely fictitious—so why are some people so keen to believe otherwise?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Full Transcript: Donald Trump Announces His Afghanistan Policy
“No place is beyond the reach of American might and American arms.”
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Jorge Silva / Reuters How Two Brothers Took Over a Filipino City for ISIS
The country has a history of separatist movements. But it had never seen an extremist takeover like this.
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Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Getty The U.S. Government's Fight Against Violent Extremism Loses Its Leader
The resignation of George Selim, a key Homeland Security official, may signal a shift away from treating the American Muslim community as partners in the struggle against radicalization.
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Reuters Is the ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi Dead?
This time his death was reported by the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which is typically seen as reliable.
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Reuters Is ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi Dead?
Russia says it’s investigating whether he was killed in an airstrike near Raqqa.
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Rob Dobi First He Became an American—Then He Joined ISIS
When the FBI discovered a network of Bosnian-Americans giving support to terrorists, they also discovered Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a U.S. citizen and a battalion commander in Syria.
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How Two Mississippi College Students Fell in Love and Decided to Join a Terrorist Group
In three short months, Jaelyn Young and Muhammad Dakhlalla found themselves at the center of America’s debate over radicalization.
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Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP / Getty Images ISIS Will Fail, but What About the Idea of ISIS?
Despite claiming responsibility for attacks like the one in London, the group is dying. It will retain the ability to inspire.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Steve Bannon's Would-Be Coalition of Christian Traditionalists
From American evangelicals to Russian Orthodox, they're united against Islam. Is that enough to overcome all that divides them?
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Matilde Gattoni The Monk Who Saves Manuscripts From ISIS
Why a Christian wants to rescue Islamic artifacts
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Shamila N. Chaudhary Ohio, Where Muslim and Christian Refugees Form 'Impossible' Friendships
“Here all kinds of Arabs can interact more openly.”
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Edel Rodriguez War Goes Viral
How social media is being weaponized across the world
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Odd Andersen / AP Three Arrested in Germany 'Could Have Been a Sleeper Cell'
The interior minister says the men had links to the ISIS team that carried out the November 2015 attacks in Paris.
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Reuters A New Phase in Russia's Military Role in Syria
The defense ministry says Russian fighter jets took off from Iran’s Hamdan airbase and struck ISIS targets.
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Francois Mori / AP The Men Who Killed a French Priest
Authorities identified both men who attacked a church as 19-year-olds who were on the country’s terrorist watch list.
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Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters The Latest Military Offensives Against ISIS
Forces in Iraq and Syria made gains Sunday in their attempts to recapture Islamic-State controlled territory.
