The Deadly Business of War-Zone Medical Care
The work of Doctors Without Borders is in jeopardy.
The work of Doctors Without Borders is in jeopardy.
Katrin Kuntz Der Spiegel Sep 2016 20min Permalink
The investigators tasked with finding jihadists embedded within Europe.
Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink
The story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by someone still on the inside.
Harald Doornbos, Jenan Moussa Foreign Policy Aug 2016 15min Permalink
The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.
Amos Barshad The Fader Aug 2016 Permalink
How ISIS trains the children it captures.
Katrin Kuntz Der Spiegel Jul 2016 10min Permalink
Who was Omar Mateen?
Why ISIS is winning the social media war.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2016 Permalink
Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.
Neil Swidey The Boston Globe Mar 2016 25min Permalink
The story of freelance journalist Anna Therese Day.
Gail Sheehy Jezebel Feb 2016 20min Permalink
Life and death with the young and radicalized.
Alex Perry Newsweek Jan 2015 55min Permalink
A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.
Luke Mogelson New Yorker Jan 2016 35min Permalink
Since the Syrian rebel leader Hassan Aboud joined ISIS, taking with him fighters and weapons, he has been behind a sprawling mix of battlefield action and crime.
C.J. Chivers New York Times Dec 2015 Permalink
An ethnography.
Scott Altran Aeon Dec 2015 40min Permalink
On a thin sliver of land called Rojava where “rules of the neighboring ISIS caliphate ha[ve] been inverted,” a Kurdish Syrian college trains its future autonomous leaders.
Wes Enzinna New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 30min Permalink
They were cousins who grow up in Raqqa amidst parties, beaches, even bikinis. They married ISIS fighters to protect their families, then became morality policers.
Azadeh Moaveni New York Times Nov 2015 Permalink
On the response to the Paris attacks.
Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2015 15min Permalink
Bomb makers—including ISIS—have been on a quest to obtain red mercury, a weapon reputed to be powerful enough to “create the city-flattening blast of a nuclear bomb.” They haven’t found it yet. That might be because it doesn’t exist.
C.J. Chivers New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 20min Permalink
How a tattooed video store clerk with a history of drinking and drug use ended up at an Islamic self-help class leading to the birth of ISIS.
Anonymous New York Review of Books Aug 2015 15min Permalink
The stories of four women whose children joined the Islamic State.
Julia Ioffe Huffington Post Aug 2015 35min Permalink
The system of organized sexual slavery at the heart of ISIS.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Aug 2015 Permalink
Visiting with the Christian fighters defending Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.
Jen Percy The New Republic Aug 2015 25min Permalink
An isolated 23-year-old Sunday school teacher living with her grandparents makes a new group of friends online who mail her chocolates and cash.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Jun 2015 Permalink
Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jul 2015 1h25min Permalink
The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.
Shiv Malik, Ali Younes, Spencer Ackerman, Mustafa Khalili The Guardian Jun 2015 25min Permalink
Even ISIS’s opponents are hard men who understand terror.
Matthieu Aikins Rolling Stone Mar 2015 25min Permalink