Islamic State isn’t actually winning in Iraq
The fall of Ramadi isn’t a disaster. It’s a chance to try and bridge Iraq’s sectarian divide.
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Adnan R. Khan
Adnan R. Khan has been on the ground for Maclean’s in some of the world’s most unfriendly places, from Pakistan to Iraq, writing about conflict, politics, society, and the occasional vacationing tips in Afghanistan. He claims to be based in a small cabin somewhere on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast though no one can definitively prove it.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and America’s tortured death penalty system
The U.S. participates in a ritual that every other advanced democracy has abandoned and justice is rarely served
Why Seymour Hersh’s story on Osama bin Laden’s death rings true
Adnan Khan explains why Hersh’s controversial story about the al Qaeda leader’s killing could be true—and demands our attention
Why targeted killings work against Islamic State
Groups like Islamic State and al Qaeda operate like cults, and that’s why assassinating their leaders works
At the Boston Marathon: ’Raising a middle finger to those brothers’
With one of the bombers facing the death penalty, the marathon went on defiantly but still different than before
Pakistan fights back
Inside the secular movement that’s fighting back against Pakistan’s militant Islamic preachers
Inside the triumph at Kobani, and the reality that awaits
Kurdish forces in Syria have turned the tide against Islamic State, but their ranks are becoming dangerously divided
Afghanistan’s new sheriff
President Ashraf Ghani is out to radically overhaul the badly divided country. Is it ready for him?
The man who made Islamic State the world’s most terrifying group
Adnan Khan on the rise of Islamic State, and how leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi went from virtual unknown to global threat
What 2015 holds for Islamic State
Chaos has been contained in Iraq. It could spell the beginning of the end of Islamic State.