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ISIS

News about the terrorist group that has inspired or carried out deadly attacks across the globe.

Here’s the US military dog that helped take down ISIS leader Baghdadi

By Alex Ward

“Jackpot”: Inside the US military raid to kill ISIS leader Baghdadi

By Alex Ward

Trump’s Baghdadi press conference shows how he ruins even his best moments

By Alex Ward

What Baghdadi’s death means for ISIS

By Alex Ward

Lindsey Graham is leading a Senate bill to punish Turkey with crushing sanctions

By Alex Ward

This filmmaker spent months interviewing neo-Nazis and jihadists. Here’s what she learned.

By Sean Illing

Trump just declared ISIS’s caliphate 100% defeated. But ISIS still remains.

By Alex Ward

The fight over whether ISIS recruit Hoda Muthana is a US citizen, explained

By Dara Lind

Lindsey Graham: Pulling troops from Syria is “the dumbest fucking idea I’ve ever heard”

By Alex Ward

The Pentagon says ISIS is “well-positioned” to make a comeback

By Jennifer Williams

The Pentagon admitted it will never know how many civilians it has killed fighting ISIS

By Alex Ward

The US spent months battling ISIS in Mosul. At least 9,000 civilians were killed in the crossfire.

By Alexia Underwood

An atheist Muslim on what the left and right get wrong about Islam

By Sean Illing

On the ground in Iraq, the war against ISIS is just getting started

By Elise Knutsen

Candidate Trump promised to stay out of foreign wars. President Trump is escalating them.

By Yochi Dreazen

America’s former envoy to Afghanistan: the war can’t be won

By Sean Illing

Iraqi forces just retook Mosul from ISIS. These photos show what they found.

By Gabriele Micalizzi

US envoy on the battle to retake ISIS's capital: “They will die here in Syria”

By Jennifer Williams

There is no rational justification for Trump’s travel ban

By Zack Beauchamp

ISIS just blew up the 842-year-old mosque where it announced its caliphate

By Jennifer Williams

A terrorism expert on why Trump's anti-Muslim posturing makes us less safe

By Sean Illing

Trump just made a major, risky move against ISIS

By Alex Ward

Trump says he'll destroy ISIS. His budget would make that a lot harder.

By Ilan Goldenberg

The US says it won’t talk to terrorists. An American woman and her children are paying the price.

By Yochi Dreazen

The grand global political lesson of the moment: we have no idea what's possible

By Sean Illing

Trump’s “Muslim ban” is a huge gift to ISIS

By Jennifer Williams

Turning back Syrian refugees isn't just wrong — it helps ISIS

By Zack Beauchamp

How America's "war on terror" was (unwittingly) designed to last forever

By Sean Illing

Berlin and Ankara: a tale of two terror attacks

By Jennifer Williams

Meet Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, the Iran hawk that will run Trump's Pentagon

By Yochi Dreazen

On the ground in Mosul: why the worst-case scenarios are coming true

By Jane Ferguson

Michael Flynn, Trump’s new national security adviser, loves Russia as much as his boss does

By Yochi Dreazen

4 foreign policy crises that could erupt under President Trump

By Zack Beauchamp, Yochi Dreazen, and 1 more

Horrifying video shows the “smoke-filled hell” ISIS has left in its wake outside Mosul

By Jennifer Williams

More US troops just died in Afghanistan. Clinton and Trump are ignoring it.

By Yochi Dreazen

ISIS leader Baghdadi just issued his first statement in almost a year

By Jennifer Williams

Donald Trump and ISIS are pushing the same weird conspiracy theory

By Jennifer Williams

Trump’s idea for a “sneak attack” on ISIS in Mosul isn’t actually possible

By Yochi Dreazen and Jennifer Williams

No, Donald, ISIS won’t "take over" America if Hillary wins

By Jennifer Williams

Did ISIS plan, inspire, or have no role in the Minnesota attack? The answer matters.

By Jennifer Williams