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Erik de Castro / Reuters The Bloody End of the Islamic State's Utopian Dream
“The fall of Raqqa this week completed the slow-motion demolition of the world’s only utopian movement worthy of the name.”
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP When Do We Get to Call Someone a Terrorist?
There’s a compulsion to keep mental ledgers of the jihadists and non-jihadists. But what can these statistics really tell us?
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Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun via Reuters Why Did the Islamic State Claim the Las Vegas Shooting?
Assessing the group’s puzzling statement
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Is It Unethical To Pose as an Alt-Righter?
A 25-year-old graduate student went undercover, yielding captivating footage of extremists—and a moral dilemma.
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Howard Burditt / Reuters The Foreign Places an Eclipse Can Take You
One of the great joys of an eclipse is when it pushes you out of your way.
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Reuters What We Still Don’t Know About the Islamic State’s Foreign Fighters
The biggest concern is what happens when they come back home.
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Stringer / Reuters Why Hasn’t ISIS Nuked America Yet?
There is plenty of reason to be confident that if ISIS could reliably and easily make a dirty bomb, they would do so.
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David Bathgate / Corbis What Does It Feel Like to Have a Slave?
Once, for five days, I found out.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Complies Perfectly With the Saudi Line
The intolerance of the president’s Riyadh speech was the intolerance sanctioned by the other Gulf states: anti-Shiism, with frankly sectarian overtones.
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Philip Montgomery His Kampf
Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.
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Ezra Acayan / Reuters The Thug Appeal of Rodrigo Duterte
Making sense of Trump’s White House invitation to the Philippine president
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Alex Wong / Getty What Sebastian Gorka Got Right About 'Radical Islam'
The White House counterterrorism adviser is so misguided in so many ways that some are reluctant to acknowledge when he has a point.
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Stoyan Nenov / Reuters The Coldhearted Folly of Trump's Proposed Immigration Order
The countries likely affected are not those whose nationals have actually perpetrated the most ghastly attacks on Western targets.
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Yagiz Karahan / Reuters ISIS Ends Its Separate Peace With Turkey
The group claims the Reina nightclub massacre—making its war of terror official.
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The American Climbing the Ranks of ISIS: An Update
The Texan jihadi's name differs, subtly, from the Islamic State's new spokesman's.
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Ian Wright The American Climbing the Ranks of ISIS
John Georgelas was a military brat, a drug enthusiast, a precocious underachiever born in Texas. Now he is a prominent figure within the Islamic State. Here’s the story of his long and troubling journey.
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Social Media Website via Reuters TV The ‘Caliph’ Speaks
As ISIS faces defeat in Mosul, its leader breaks a long silence to urge a fight to the death.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump and the Apocalypse
Is Rome really ISIS’s “ultimate trophy”?
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Stringer / Iraq / Reuters Why Global Religious Conflict Won’t End
As long as people interpret texts literally, religion will be a source of conflict.
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Reuters/The Atlantic 'What ISIS Really Wants': The Response
A survey of reactions to The Atlantic's cover story—from think tanks to jihadist Twitter
