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Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters The Dilemma Facing Ex-Muslims in Trump's America
How to challenge Islam while defending its adherents
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Travel Ban Will Not 'Help' ISIS Recruitment
The trope posits an overly simplistic understanding of jihadist radicalization, and demeans Muslims in general.
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Joe Raedle / Getty ISIS in the Caribbean
Trinidad has the highest rate of Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere. How did this happen?
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Fadi Al-Assaad / Reuters What’s the Right Way to Think About Religion and ISIS?
The debate over Islam’s role echoes earlier arguments about ideology in human affairs.
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Maciej Toporowicz / Getty The Jihad Will Be Televised
The sinister narcissism of ISIS and its lone-wolf emulators
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Charles Platiau / Reuters What If Some Suicide Bombers Are Just Suicidal?
Dying for a cause—minus the cause
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Martin Meissner / AP Is There Any ‘Logic’ to Suicide Terrorism?
One theory holds that such attacks are a response to territorial losses. But maybe there's no strategy behind them at all.
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Reuters Flemming Rose: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
How the man behind the Danish cartoons crisis thinks about free speech, 10 years on
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Ali Hashisho / Reuters Reborn Into Terrorism
Why are so many ISIS recruits ex-cons and converts?
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SITE / Reuters The Shadow of Jihadi John
Is martyrdom about the afterlife? Or fame in this life?
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Reuters The Challenge of Jihadi Cool
ISIS’s countercultural appeal is real. And it must be taken seriously.
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Khalil Hassan / Reuters Yes, ISIS Is Winning the ‘War of Ideas’
The Paris attacks showed how even fringe appeal to a “microscopic minority” can do massive damage.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters The Pre-Terrorists Among Us
Is it possible to stop terrorism before it happens?
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Reuters / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Cyber Activists Who Want to Shut Down ISIS
Somewhere in Europe, a man who goes by the name “Mikro” spends his days and nights targeting Islamic State supporters on Twitter.
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Pascal Rossignol / Reuters ‘I Am Strange Here’: Conversations With the Syrians in Calais
“We have breakfast, we smoke, we laugh, we joke, we eat again, and after that in the night we have a try [at escaping to England]. Every night.”
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Lefteris Pitarakis / AP Pilgrims to the Islamic State
What Westerners migrating to ISIS have in common with Westerners who sympathized with communism
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Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters What Motivates Terrorists?
It’s an important question. But is it the best one to be asking?
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Reuters / FBI The Zoolander Theory of Terrorism
Jihadists are often portrayed as brainwashed dupes. They're not.
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SITE Intel Group/Reuters Terrorism With a Human Face
Mohammad Emwazi didn't look like the killer who became Jihadi John. Why is that so surprising?
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Reuters Why It’s So Hard to Stop ISIS Propaganda
It requires telling a better story. And the U.S. hasn't come up with one yet.
