Expanding the caliphate: Seth G. Jones on ISIS’ South Asia strategy. Juan Cole on how the United States helped create the Islamic State: The Bush administration's mistakes after the invasion of Iraq helped the militant group rise. Elliot Ackerman on the rise of ISIS and the logic of fanaticism. Max Fisher on 9 questions about ISIS you were too embarrassed to ask. Erika Solomon and Ahmed Mhidi on Isis and the munitions trail. Inside the hunt for ISIS in Iraq: Hawre Khalid, a Kirkuk-based photographer, goes inside police raids as Iraqi authorities search for ISIS suspects in their city. Why do Islamist groups in particular seem so much more sadistic, even evil? A poll finds Muslims hate ISIL/Daesh. What form of “Islam” do these terrorists follow? The ISIS recruitment drive in Paris was a big success — meet the new Daesh-bags. While I find ISIS despicable in every other way, I strongly identify with its love of pickup trucks.
