In the Syrian city of Raqqa, residents have come to accept life under ISIS. In Iraq, the battle is raging to wrest Tikrit from ISIS control.
The world has been shocked by pictures and videos released on Sunday by Islamic rebels in Iraq. The images show a massacre. The rebels claim they shot dead 1700 prisoners. But are the images real?
Half-a-million Iraqis are believed to be on the road as Sunni extremists seize city after city in the north. The Iraqi army in the north appears to have collapsed in just 24 hours.
The New York Times' John Leland is in Baghdad with the latest on the bloody attack and what this means as the U.S. prepares to withdraw from the country.
For our Geo Quiz today follow the Tigris River. Producer Jake Warga talked with some soldiers there to find out what their lives are like and what music they listen to. Here's what one soldier from the 3rd Infantry Division says is high up on her iPod:
Foreign policy has been an important issue in the U.S. presidential race. But how do U.S. troops on the front lines see the race?
Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq in 1979. His rule was ruthless, his politics totalitarian, and his relations with neighboring countries notorious. Jeb Sharp chronicles Saddam Hussein's rise to power and the brutal tactics and clan politics he employed to stay there until his fall in April 2003.