‘caliphate’

What Islamic State police files can tell us about everyday life under the caliphate

What Islamic State police files can tell us about everyday life under the caliphate: It is not often that regimes wither away and leave behind troves of documents for posterity. It happened in Germany with the Nazi Third Reich and under the German Democratic Republic. Now, to an extent, we have similar evidence of life …

Its ‘caliphate’ largely gone, Islamic State plots another way forward

Its ‘caliphate’ largely gone, Islamic State plots another way forward: With the loss of almost all of its “caliphate”, the so-called Islamic State (IS) is widely assumed to be on the edge of defeat. That may be true on the ground in Syria and Iraq, but even there, the group shows signs of transforming into …

'caliphate'

What Islamic State police files can tell us about everyday life under the caliphate

Its ‘caliphate’ largely gone, Islamic State plots another way forward