How to understand ISIS: Malise Ruthven reviews The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East by Marc Lynch and ISIS: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges. Where are ISIS’s foreign fighters coming from? The U.S. still has no idea what to do with captured ISIS fighters. How do you stop a future terrorist when the only evidence is a thought? Rukmini Callimachi investigates. Have scientists discovered an algorithm that could thwart ISIS? Colin P. Clarke and Chad C. Serena on the problem with trying to destroy the Islamic State: “The fracturing of a terrorist organization often causes the emergence of new, and in some cases more violent, splinter organizations”. Is the U.S. war against ISIS illegal? A U.S. Army captain sues the White House in federal court to find out.
Emile Nakhleh: “I worked in the CIA under Bush. Obama is right to not say ‘radical Islam’. Avoiding the phrase isn’t ‘politically correct’. It’s strategic”. Donald Trump’s brain trust has some ideas about how to fight terrorism. Tierney Sneed and Lauren Fox on why some jihadists consider Donald Trump to be the perfect enemy: “His anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, and anti-Muslim rhetoric totally validates ISIS claims that Muslims are unwelcome in Europe and the U.S., and that they would be better off living in its so-called caliphate”.
ISIS has lost many of the key places it once controlled. Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet go inside ISIS, quietly preparing for the loss of the “caliphate”. Ahmed Rashid on ISIS, the cornered beast.
