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Mia Bloom

A masked Syria fighter stands in front of an American tank and some troops.

When the US pulls out of Syria, what happens to ISIS?

Global Politics

President Donald Trump closed out 2018 with the announcement that ISIS has been defeated. Analysts say otherwise.

Said and Cherif Kouachi, the gunmen who killed twelve people during their attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, are seen in an image from an amateur video shot in Paris January 7, 2015. The Kouachi brothers were the children of Algerian immigrants to Fr

Here’s what ISIS recruiters and sexual predators have in common

Conflict
Peter Slanar, principal of Vienna’s Higher Commercial Vocational School, looks at a news story about his former student Samra Kesinovic who joined up with ISIS in Syria.

Austria is trying to cut down on its increasing number of ‘jihadi brides’

Belief
Rise of ISIS panel

ISIS may disappear much faster than you expect

Conflict
A billboard displays a verse from the Koran that urges women to wear a hijab in the northern province of Raqqa in March. ISIS has imposed sweeping restrictions like this in areas where it has gained control.

A shy 19-year-old woman disappeared in Minnesota — and resurfaced in Syria

Belief
People gather at the site of an explosion on a trolley bus in Volgograd, December 31, 2013

What motivates women to commit acts of terror?

Conflict & Justice

What has the role of women been in the long simmering ethnic conflict in Chechnya and Dagestan. And why do we expect different things from men and women?

The World

Female suicide bombers

Global Politics

It was two female suicide bombers who reportedly detonated belts in Moscow yesterday. Female suicide bombers have struck there before. Professor Mia Bloom teaches at Penn State and is writing a book on female suicide bombers.