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Daniel Leal-Olivas / Getty Why ISIS Is So Good at Branding Its Failures as Successes
The Parsons Green attack shows that governments and media outlets keep falling into the propaganda traps being set for them.
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Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters How ISIS Survives the Fall of Mosul
Long after the city is back in the hands of the Iraqi government, it will continue to be a prop for the Islamic State—although an altogether different one.
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Rui Vieira / AP ISIS's Perverse, Bloody Interpretation of Ramadan
“What of the person who spends the sacred month ... oppressing people and killing innocents?”
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Trump's Immigration Order Is a Propaganda Victory for ISIS
The American president has reinforced the victimhood narrative at the core of the Islamic State’s recruitment pitch.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters The Obscure Theologian Who Shaped ISIS
Neither the Islamic State nor al-Qaeda would be where they are today without Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters 2016 Elections: ISIS Weighs In
Despite the seeming propaganda value of the campaign, the group has been strangely silent about it—until recently.
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Reuters How the Islamic State Is Spinning the Mosul Battle
As the group sheds territory, its propaganda wing has been forced to come up with a new storyline.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters How ISIS Weaponized the Media After Orlando
In the space of minutes, Omar Mateen transformed from an “ordinary” mass shooter into a global terrorist.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters ISIS Is Using the Media Against Itself
How a terrorist group effectively seized control over the coverage of its acts
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Why ISIS Propaganda Works
And why stopping it requires that governments get out of the way
