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Jihad

The Convert

The story of Tania Joya, the ex-wife of a jihadist from Texas.

Abigail Pesta Texas Monthly Oct 2017 30min 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

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

World

My ISIS Boyfriend

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

Margarette Driscoll Sunday Times of London Mar 2015 10min Permalink

Crime

From Amateur to Ruthless Jihadist in France

Chérif and Saïd Kouachi’s path to the Paris attack at Charlie Hebdo.

Rukmini Callimachi, Jim Yardley New York Times Jan 2015 Permalink

Boys and Girls

On the attempt to rehabilitate Afghanistan’s child jihadis.

Andrew O'Hagan London Review of Books Aug 2013 15min Permalink

‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview with a Hunted American Jihadist

An conversation with Omar Hammami, via Twitter.

Spencer Ackerman Wired Apr 2013 15min Permalink

World

When the Jihad Came to Mali

A history of how Tuareg separatists, jihadists seeking a “desert caliphate,” cigarette smugglers, and narcotraffickers have turned Northern Mali into “the globe’s most significant terrorist threat.”

Joshua Hammer New York Review of Books Mar 2013 20min Permalink

Crime

Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist

How one woman is monitoring the jihadi network from a home office in Montana.

Jack Hitt Wired Oct 2007 20min Permalink