An ISIS offshoot spreads terror in the Philippines by taking over the city of Marawi on the island of Mindanao in 2017. As the military tries to retake the city, a deadly siege ensues.
The kidnapping of a successful Iraqi party organizer suggests the government is powerless against militias.
Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.
The Kurds and the Shiite units have proven ISIL’s most effective opponents, but in Jalawla, the differences between the reluctant brothers in […]
In Bashir, a Shiite Turkmen town recently liberated from the “Islamic State,” tensions that could lead to a new conflict in Iraq […]
