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Islamic State

The Forever War Fought by America’s Allies

October 9, 2019

The Danger of Abandoning Our Partners

Joseph Votel and Elizabeth Dent

October 8, 2019

A U.S. soldier watches Syrian Democratic Forces raise a flag in the background.

Trump’s Gift to ISIS

October 7, 2019

A veiled woman looks back at the camera in the al-Hol camp in northern Syria.

Trump’s Sickening Betrayal

October 7, 2019

I Watched ISIS Videos, and Felt My Soul Diminished

September 24, 2019

A pickup truck drives on a dusty road toward structures in the distance.

Europe Has Turned Its Back on Its ISIS Suspects

July 5, 2019

Fighters in the Syrian Democratic Forces ride a pickup truck with Islamic State fighters held as prisoners near al-Shadadi town, in the Hasaka countryside of Syria, on February 18, 2016.

‘We Have Been Lazy on Hate’

Conor Friedersdorf

June 27, 2019

Graffiti that reads "I love ISIS" is seen in a damaged building in Marawi City, Philippines.

Why I Didn’t Tolerate Hairsplitting in War

June 11, 2019

A U.S. Marine with his back to the camera walks through the town of Nabuk in southern Afghanistan.

I Wrote to John Walker Lindh. He Wrote Back.

May 23, 2019

A corrections vehicle patrolled near the Federal Corrections Complex where John Walker Lindh was released from prison today

Why Baghdadi Risked a Video Appearance

Joshua A. Geltzer

May 1, 2019

The man assumed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears in a video released on April 29, 2019.