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Meet al Qaeda’s Hostage Negotiator

TALK IS CHEAP

The man who says he got Peter Theo Curtis and many Yazidi women released from Nusra and ISIS captivity talks to The Daily Beast.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Oct 19, 2015

Turkey’s ‘Oz’ for British Journalists

War on Media

The prison Vice News’s gonzo journalists were sent to on bullshit ‘terrorism’ charges was the closest thing to a supermax.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Sep 04, 2015

ISIS Bombs Turkey

Blowback

Ankara’s “wait-and-see” policy with respect to the jihadist army ended last month, and now it’s almost certainly been hit with its first planned terrorist attack.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Jul 20, 2015

The Gateway to ISIS's Caliphate

Border Town Blues

Only a small border gate manned by Turkish gendarmerie separates NATO country from Jihadistan—and locals are sick of ISIS’s two-way traffic through it.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Jul 03, 2015

Uncovering ISIS’s Mass Graves

In Iraq, these terrible trenches are all that remain of men, women, and children murdered by ISIS.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Mar 19, 2015

Iraqi Teen Escapes ISIS

Yusuf Sayman tells CNN Newsroom's Brook Baldwin the story of a teenager who was captured by ISIS, tortured for information, and who eventually escaped.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Aug 07, 2014

The Teen Who Escaped ISIS

Kidnapped!

ISIS abducts boys, breaks them down, forces them to betray their families, then hopes to recruit them into its ranks. Classic brainwashing. This time it didn’t work.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Aug 04, 2014

East Ukraine’s Internal Refugees

TRAPPED

Brutal fighting between pro-Russia separatists and the Ukrainian army in Sloviansk has prompted a mass exodus of city residents—and many have no idea when they’ll be able to return home.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Jun 10, 2014

Syrian Refugees' Crisis

Desperate

Refugees brace for the oncoming winter in Lebanon’s makeshift camps, as thousands more have poured across the border in recent days due to heavy fighting.

Yusuf Sayman | Published Nov 21, 2013

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