In early 2011, the heart of the Muslim world roiled in protest, consumed with the upheaval of the Arab Spring. The governments of Tunisia and Egypt had already fallen; those of Libya and Yemen would soon follow. Watching the chaos from his hideout in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden sa…
From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and…
Trabajo periodístico llevado a cabo durante más de 10 años y en el que pone de manifiesto cómo el Estado Islámico y otros grupos terroristas se financian mediante los secuestros, el contrabando y ahora, además, el tráfico de refugiados y el éxodo de inmigrantes causado por la gu…
Dos de los mayores expertos americanos en violencia extremista y terrorismo analizan la génesis y evolución del Ejército Yihadista y del Estado Islámico, y señalan la posible forma de lucha para combatirlos.
The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Graeme Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group. We meet an Egyptian tailor who once made bespok…
"How did a group of religious fanatics, clad in black pajamas and armed to the teeth, manage to carve out a violent, fundamentalist "Islamic state" in wide swaths of Syria and Iraq? How did the widely celebrated revolution against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad descend into a move…
