The story of freelance journalist Anna Therese Day.

Life and death with the young and radicalized.

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

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.

An ethnography.

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.

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.

On the response to the Paris attacks.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.

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

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

A New York lawyer’s attempt to secure an American aid worker’s release from ISIS.

An Islamic State senior commander reveals the terror group’s origins.

More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.

“The Jihad route leads from Tunisia via Tripoli into Turkey and on to Syria. Thousands have followed the path into Syria, and only a few have returned.”

Those who survived tell the story of twenty three ISIS hostages’ shared months of brutal captivity before some were ransomed and some executed.

ISIS vs. the Kurds.