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Souhayla, a 16-year-old girl who escaped ISIS after three years of captivity, at her uncle’s home in Shariya Camp, Iraq. Credit Alex Potter for The New York Times

Freed From ISIS, Yazidi Women Return in ‘Severe Shock’

by Rukmini Callimachi | Jul 29, 2017 | Middle East

SHARIYA CAMP, Iraq — The 16-year-old lies on her side on a mattress on the floor, unable to hold up her head. Her uncle props her up to drink water, but she can barely swallow. Her voice is so weak, he places his ear directly over her mouth to hear her. The girl,...

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Indian police personnel. AFP PHOTO / NOAH SEELAM

How ISIS Guides World’s Terror Plots by ‘Remote Control’

by Rukmini Callimachi | Feb 8, 2017 | Features

Hyderabad, India — When ISIS identified a promising young recruit willing to carry out an attack in one of India’s major tech hubs, the group made sure to arrange everything down to the bullets he needed to kill victims. For 17 months, terrorist operatives guided the...

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Veiled women in Raqqa, Syria, in 2014. Early in the ISIS’s reign there, women could show their eyes and their hands. Soon, though, the terror group made an announcement calling for women to be enveloped in black cloth, with their hands, feet and eyes concealed. – Reuters

For Women Under ISIS, a Tyranny of Dress Code and Punishment

by Rukmini Callimachi | Dec 13, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

KHAZER CAMP, Iraq — By the time the jihadists had finished, not even a woman’s eyes were legal. Showing them was a punishable offense. The dress code imposed on the women of Mosul started soon after ISIS overran the city more than two years ago. It was carried out...

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Nusra Front fighters in Idlib Province, Syria, in 2015. In what analysts say is a calculated move to hide ties to Al Qaeda, the Nusra Front recently changed its name to the Levant Conquest Front. Credit Ammar Abdullah/Reuters

Muhaysini Says he Talked to Zawahri, Poses No Threat to the West

by Rukmini Callimachi | Nov 19, 2016 | Middle East

Washington- American officials accuse him of being part of the “inner leadership circle” of Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, most widely known as the Nusra Front, and of raising as much as $5 million for the terrorist group while signing up thousands of fighters. But...

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Harry Sarfo, a former ISIS fighter from Germany, inside the maximum-security prison in Bremen where he is serving a three-year sentence on terrorism charges. Credit Gordon Welters for The New York Times

How a Secretive Branch of ISIS Built a Global Network of Killers

by Rukmini Callimachi | Aug 5, 2016 | World

BREMEN, Germany — Believing he was answering a holy call, Harry Sarfo left his home in the working-class city of Bremen last year and drove for four straight days to reach the territory controlled by the ISIS in Syria. He barely had time to settle in before members of...