Heng on ISIS’s Growth in Asia

Men got haircuts and shaved their beards. Women lit up cigarettes and burned their niqabs. Residents of Manbij, Syria, who had lived under the Islamic State for nearly two years, came out onto the streets and celebrated, shedding tears of joy. “May God destroy them. […]

La publication de nouveaux documents jusque-là classifiés jette une lumière crue sur la façon dont la NSA envisageait son avenir dans les années 2000. Et ces documents présagent de l’ampleur des moyens de surveillance qui allaient être mis en œuvre. Après huit ans d’attente et […]

The Karamlesh village meeting begins the traditional way, with Christian prayers led by a priest, murmured and sung, lingering in the evening air. But the meeting’s not in the actual village of Karamlesh. It’s 40 miles away in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, on […]