ISIS fighters seem to be trying to sell sex slaves online Joby Warrick, The Washington Post May 28 2016 Image: A Yazidi who had been held by ISIS militants as a slave for several months sits in a tent outside Duhok, Iraq. Two different ISIS captives recently appeared to be offered for sale on Facebook. (Alice Martins/For The Washington Post) The woman is young, perhaps 18, with olive skin and dark bangs that droop onto her face. In the Facebook

Reshaping the post-Ottoman order: America must get the politics right David Ignatius, The Washington Post  May 23 2016 Image: Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather after a training session at a firing range in northern Syria on May 21. (Robert Burns/Associated Press) A tour of the war zones in Iraq and Syria with the top U.S. commander ends, appropriately enough, here in Turkey, the strongest power in the region and the place where the

  Obama Exploring How to Prosecute Islamic State for Genocide:   The administration declared two months ago that ISIL is committing genocide. Now comes the hard part. Nahal Toosi, Politico  26 May 2016 Image: Kashmiri demonstrators hold up a flag of ISIL during a demonstration against Israeli military operations in Gaza in Srinagar in 2014. | Getty The Obama administration, having declared two months ago that the Islamic State is committing

Al Qaeda Turns to Syria, With a Plan to Challenge ISIS ERIC SCHMITT, The New York Times May 15 2016 Image: The Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a 2011 image provided by the SITE Intelligence Group. He seemed to clear the way this month for Qaeda figures to use the group’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, to form an emirate there. Creditvia Agence France-Presse — Getty Images    WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda’s top leadership in Pakistan,

‘That is Not the Son I Raised’: How a British Citizen Became One of the Most Notorious Members of ISIS Adam Goldman and Souad Mekhennet, The Washington Post 24 May, 2016 Image:Then-15-year-old El Shafee Elsheikh, right, seen with his mother and younger brother Mahmoud. (Family photo) The last member of the group of British jailers who supervised the torture and killing of Western hostages held by the Islamic State has been identified as a 27-year-old

The New Coalition to Destroy the Islamic State David Ignatius, The Washington Post 23 May, 2016 Image: A female fighter from the Kurdish People Protection Unit (YPG) poses for a photo on the front line in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on September 4, 2015. (Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images) NORTHERN SYRIA The raw Sunni recruits in crisp camouflage uniforms, popping off rounds at the firing range at a U.S. training camp here, illustrate

How Kosovo Was Turned Into Fertile Ground for ISIS Carlotta Gall, The New York Times 23 May, 2016 PRISTINA, Kosovo — Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store. The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and blamed for spreading Wahhabism —

The U.S.’s Show of Power Against the Islamic State David Ignatius, The Washington Post 23 May, 2016 Image: Iraqi government forces monitor a street in the western town of Rutba after they recaptured it from the Islamic State group. (Moadh Al-Dulaimi/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) BAGHDAD Amid hedgerows of computer screens in the joint operations center that runs the war against the Islamic State, Marine Brig. Gen. Bill Mullen explains the complex

On the Ground in Aleppo: Bloodshed, Misery and Hope Declan Walsh, The New York Times    12 May 2016 Image: A civilian evacuated a baby on Friday from a site that had been hit by airstrikes in a rebel-controlled area of Aleppo, Syria. Inhabitants of the city carry on with work and school despite fighting that has killed more than 200 civilians in the past week. Credit Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters    ALEPPO, Syria — On the edge of Aleppo’s

The militants next door: Tunisia sees its sons join the Islamic State in neighboring Libya — and then return to attack SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, The Washington Post  14 May 2016 Image: Young men hang out in a cafe in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia. A lack of jobs in the city means many are vulnerable to Islamic State recruiters. (PHOTOS BY LORENZO TUGNOLI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST ) ben guerdane, tunisia — The families arrived at the cemetery in the night carrying