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Isis

The Deadly Business of War-Zone Medical Care

The work of Doctors Without Borders is in jeopardy.

Katrin Kuntz Der Spiegel Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Crime World

Chasing ISIS

The investigators tasked with finding jihadists embedded within Europe.

Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink

World

Present at the Creation

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

Music

The Pop Star of Jihad

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

World

First Come the Sweets, Then the Beheadings

How ISIS trains the children it captures.

Katrin Kuntz Der Spiegel Jul 2016 10min Permalink

Crime

The Orlando Killer: “Always Agitated. Always Mad.”

Who was Omar Mateen?

Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski, Alan Blinder, Mujib Mashal New York Times Jun 2016 Permalink

Crime Tech Media

#jihad

Why ISIS is winning the social media war.

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Brendan Koerner on the Longform Podcast

Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2016 Permalink

Politics World

Where Did ISIS Come From? The Story Starts Here.

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

World Media

Bearing Witness to the Rise of ISIS

The story of freelance journalist Anna Therese Day.

Gail Sheehy Jezebel Feb 2016 20min Permalink

Reprints Crime World

Once Upon a Jihad

Life and death with the young and radicalized.

Alex Perry Newsweek Jan 2015 55min Permalink

World

The Fight for Mosul

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

Luke Mogelson New Yorker Jan 2016 35min Permalink

World

Behind the Black Flag: The Recruitment of an ISIS Killer

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

World

ISIS Is a Revolution

An ethnography.

Scott Altran Aeon Dec 2015 40min Permalink

A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS' Backyard

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

World Religion

ISIS Women and Enforcers in Syria Recount Collaboration, Anguish and Escape

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

Crime World

Magical Thinking About ISIS

On the response to the Paris attacks.

Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2015 15min Permalink

Science World

The Doomsday Scam

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

World Religion

The Mystery of ISIS

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

World Religion

Mothers of ISIS

The stories of four women whose children joined the Islamic State.

Julia Ioffe Huffington Post Aug 2015 35min Permalink

ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape

The system of organized sexual slavery at the heart of ISIS.

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Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast

Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Aug 2015 Permalink

At War in the Garden of Eden

Visiting with the Christian fighters defending Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.

Jen Percy The New Republic Aug 2015 25min Permalink

Crime

ISIS and the Lonely Young American

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

Crime

Five Hostages

Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.

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Lawrence Wright on the Longform Podcast

Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jul 2015 1h25min Permalink

World

How Isis Crippled al-Qaida

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

Inside Baghdad's Brutal Battle Against ISIS

Even ISIS’s opponents are hard men who understand terror.

Matthieu Aikins Rolling Stone Mar 2015 25min Permalink

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