Raqqa

A girl attends her first class at a school in Hazema in north Raqqa, Syria.

In Syria, all girls want is safety and school

October 19, 2017
Conflict

Some Syrian parents are marrying off their young daughters to protect them from the ravages of war, but these girls yearn for an education.

In Syria, all girls want is safety and school
Fighting continues in Syria, where Kurdish troops from the People's Protection Units are facing down ISIS militants in Raqqa, Syria.

Is Syria 'the war of our time, a humanitarian test of our time?'

August 24, 2017
Conflict
Is Syria 'the war of our time, a humanitarian test of our time?'
Laura Passoni took her four-year-old son to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS and realized quickly she'd made a terrible mistake. "From that moment I did everything to try to leave so that my son wouldn’t become a terrorist,” she says.

A Belgian woman explains why she joined ISIS, and why she came back

December 19, 2016
Books
A Belgian woman explains why she joined ISIS, and why she came back
Few individuals have gotten close enough to the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Jurgen Todenhofer is one of them. He embedded with ISIS for 10 days in December of 2014.

Meet the man who spent 10 days with ISIS and lived to tell about it

April 9, 2016
Conflict
Meet the man who spent 10 days with ISIS and lived to tell about it

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