List of Islamic State articles
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U.S. President Donald Trump salutes during the presidential inaugural parade in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump Is Pushing America’s Special Forces Past the Breaking Point
America has never had more counterterrorism raids — and less of a counterterrorism strategy.
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GettyImages-692193102crop The Islamic State’s Shock-and-Bore Terrorism
The "caliphate" has figured out how to make committing acts of terror easy. It's also made them boring.
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alnuri From the Rise of the Caliphate to the Fall of Mosul, One Family’s Journey
Residents of this shattered city initially welcomed the Islamic State, but the honeymoon was short. The damage left behind will take generations to heal.
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TOPSHOT - Iraqi forces deploy in the Bajwaniyah village, about 30 kms south of Mosul, on October 18, 2016 after they liberated it from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces were making gains on the Islamic State group in Mosul in an offensive US President Barack Obama warned would be a "difficult fight". / AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) Iraqi Forces Carry Out Revenge Killings Against ISIS Suspects
As Iraqi forces gain upper hand, Sunni Muslims become the victims of further sectarian crimes.
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A flag of the autonomous Kurdistan region flies as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position to monitor the area from their front line post in Bashiqa, a town 13 kilometres north-east of Mosul on August 16, 2014. Kurdish troops backed by US warplanes launched a bid to recapture Mosul dam, Iraq's largest, from Islamic State jihadists, a senior Kurdish military official said. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) Iraqi Kurds Want America as Their Divorce Lawyer
Kurdish leaders are trying to persuade the United States to broker a potentially explosive split between Erbil and Baghdad.
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Maarik Al-Tawaiha (C) is led out of court following his trial, for the killing of three American military trainers outside an army base last year, on July 17, 2017, in the Jordanian capital Amman. The military court in Amman found 39-year-old Tawaiha guilty of shooting the trainers as they waited to enter the King Faisal base at Al-Jafr in southern Jordan on November 4. / AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images) Jordanian Soldier Who Killed Three Green Berets Gets Life Sentence
With no ties to terrorist groups, the motive for the attack remains unknown.
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04_mosul hospital and hotel_8july2017_wv2_digitalglobe_wm copy Mosul, Before and After, in Satellite Images
Aerial photographs of seven sites in Mosul from 2015 and now illustrate the extent of the city's destruction.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets US President Donald Trump prior to the start of the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 7. Leaders of the world's top economies will gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / IAN LANGSDON (Photo credit should read IAN LANGSDON/AFP/Getty Images) Is This the End of ISIS?
The Islamic State has lost the battle for Mosul. Raqqa will be next to fall. But is the so-called caliphate dead — and who are the winners?
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets US President Donald Trump prior to the start of the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 7. Leaders of the world's top economies will gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / IAN LANGSDON (Photo credit should read IAN LANGSDON/AFP/Getty Images) Rational Security on The E.R.: The “Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Quit Sniffing Glue” Edition
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were all smiles at their first meeting, but the latest Russia revelations are rocking the White House.
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A picture taken on July 1, 2017, shows the black flag of the Islamic State (IS) group moving in the wind near the medical complex in the Shifa neighbourhood, on the west bank of Mosul, on July 1, 2017, where they are battling some of the last members of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in the city. / AFP PHOTO / Fadel SENNA (Photo credit should read FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images) What Comes After ISIS?
The jihadi group's defeat in Mosul and Raqqa is about to usher in a new era — and new conflicts — across the Middle East.
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books_all The Bookshelf: FP Staffers Review the New Releases
Just in time for the holiday break, FP returns to reviewing new and upcoming titles on all aspects of international affairs.
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An image grab taken from a July 2014 propaganda video showing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi addressing Muslim worshippers at a mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Can the Islamic State Survive If Baghdadi Is Dead?
Rumors are swirling that the Russians may have killed the ISIS leader. But lopping off the head won’t kill the snake.
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GettyImages-694085720 Islamic State Revenues Down 80 Percent from 2015
A new report says the caliphate’s days are numbered.
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spyer1 Trump Is Tripping Over Iran and Russia’s Red Lines in Syria
Moscow and Tehran know what they’re fighting for. Does Washington?
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ypg I Fled the Islamic State’s ‘Caliphate’ in Raqqa — But Fear Its Liberators
The Arab residents of my hometown are trading their jihadi tormentors for Kurdish rulers they don't entirely trust.
