The Mystery of ISIS

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The Mystery of ISIS

Anonymous

August 13, 2015 Issue

ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror

by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan

Regan Arts, 270 pp., $14.00 (paper)

ISIS: The State of Terror

by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger

Ecco, 385 pp., $27.99

The author has wide experience in the Middle East and was formerly an official of a NATO country. We respect the writer’s reasons for anonymity.
—The Editors

Reuters A still from a video released by ISIS on April 19, which appears to show the execution of Ethiopian Christians by members of Wilayat Barqa, an affiliate of ISIS in eastern Libya