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A year after the liberation of Mosul, Iraq's boys find themselves in a series of dead ends.
Should the U.S. retaliate after the latest deadly airstrike in Syria?
A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.
An Iraqi man walks past a prosthetic leg in a residential area in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, on March 13th, 2018.
Haji Ali, Iraq: A view of the village—which has been ravaged by battles against ISIS—through one of its destroyed buildings.
An expert on the region makes five predictions about what's in store for the area in the next year.
A series of attacks against U.S. and Russian backed forces in recent days suggests that ISIS is still very much a threat.
Chechen military involvement in the fight against ISIS is unprecedented.
The terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt was potentially motivated by extremist groups viewing Sufi religious practices as a threat to their intolerant worldview.
First Washington went after the nuclear deal, now it wants Iran-backed defenses against ISIS out of Iraq.
Protesters hold placards during the annual Ashura march in Marble Arch on October 1st, 2017, in London, England.
How many civilian casualties is the U.S. willing to face in order to accomplish its goal of defeating ISIS?
A new study shows that terrorists judge morality based solely on outcomes.
President Trump approved the plan, designed to reclaim a Syrian city from ISIS.
Discrimination and isolation can send troubled immigrants on a search for personal significance, which can lead them to radical groups.
Coordinated bombings in Brussels may have been in the works for some time, aided by an underworld where crime and extremism blur together.
An expert weighs in on the Islamic State's cycle of violence.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are playing right into ISIS's hands.
The president made non-proliferation a centerpiece of his administration. What happened?
Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr demonstrates that Riyadh is able to act with growing impunity in the Middle East. It also signals a potentially dangerous shift in American-Saudi relations.
Five years on, researchers weigh in on how we got from Tunisia and the Arab Spring to where we are now.
After Paris, Colorado Springs, and San Bernardino, can the American public come to grips with the skewed nature of our fear of terrorism?
A new paper identifies the Westerners finding their way to Iraq and Syria—and how great a threat they pose, and what should be done to stop them.