exclusive
SYSTEMATIC ABUSE
Boys as young as 13 rescued from detention camps say they were forced to try to impregnate dozens of ISIS women, since there are no men in the camps.
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., is an adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE). She has interviewed over 800 violent extremists and terrorists, their family members and supporters in various parts of the world including Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Europe, U.S., Canada, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, Gaza and the West Bank. She is the author of several books, including Talking to Terrorists and ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate and Homegrown Hate: Inside the Minds of Domestic Violent Extremists. Follow @AnneSpeckhard
‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’
Jennifer Wenisch has finally been jailed for her role in the death of a 5-year-old enslaved Yazidi girl, who died of thirst after being chained outside in the “scorching heat.”
exclusive
GOING HOME
The Tennessee-born child has spoken for the first time since being rescued last month.
HEADING HOME
U.S. forces used to keep the prisons, the prisoners, and their guards secure in Syria—until Trump pulled the plug on America’s allies in the fight against ISIS. Now, watch out.
VEILED THREAT
As the Turks and Syrians close in from opposite directions, these women and their children don’t expect much sympathy, but they don’t want to die.
KILLING FIELDS
The Kurds are not entirely defenseless. They’ve been preparing for what they had long anticipated—a possible betrayal by their closest ally, the United States.
BOOM!
A single rocket landed inside Baghdad's Green Zone near the U.S. embassy on Sunday night. An Iraqi counterterrorism officer tells The Daily Beast an Iran-backed militia fired it.
MARTYR MADNESS
Whatever the actual extent of the terror group’s involvement in the carnage, it knows the images and ideology of martyrdom it demonstrates will serve its cause.
exclusive
HOLD YOUR BREATH
A prisoner now in Baghdad, the young scientist is still proud of what he did developing chemical weapons for ISIS. When will they be used? He doesn’t know, doesn’t seem to care.
exclusive
‘ISIS 2.0’
Jailed jihadis are being released, others are returning to Europe to face prison time, and still others have never been known to police and wait to be mobilized.