AL-HAWL CAMP, Syria: The women say it was misguided religious faith, naiveté, a search for something to believe in or youthful rebellion. Whatever it was, it...
TAL KEIF, Iraq: The entire trial lasted just over half an hour. A gray-haired man was led into the defendant’s booth. He fidgeted as the judge read the...
KABARTO CAMP, Iraq: They made the captive children, malnourished and weak from hunger, fight over a single tomato. Then the Daesh (ISIS) militants told them,...
FALLUJAH, Iraq: Sgt. Ahmad Abdelaziz, with Iraq’s special forces, has been almost continually deployed fighting Daesh (ISIS) group ever since the militants...
BAGHDAD: To the first-time visitor, Baghdad might seem like a normal city. Well, almost normal: Pockmarked buildings and pervasive checkpoints serve as a...