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People demonstrate outside the offices of IS demanding that they stop fighting with the rebels on January 6, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (Getty)

Homeward-bound Jihadists

When Westerners arrived in the caliphate, they would burn their passports, ceremonially rejecting their national identity, and brag of the act on Twitter. Now that theIslamic State, orISIS, has…

Jytte Klausen

A Generation Lost to War

Over 68.5 million people have been forcefully displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations.Close to 40 percent originate from the Arab…

Yasmine El Geressi
A child stands in queue in al-Hol camp which houses relatives of Islamic State (IS) group members, in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on March 28, 2019. (GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images)

The Unwanted Children of Al-Hol

While images of child soldiers bearing weapons and carrying out armed operations for militias can be shocking to the public eye, it is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the use of child soldiers can be…

Ali El Shamy

Returning ISIS Fighters

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Yasmine El Geressi
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