Resource April 29, 2019

Meet the Journalist: Saul Elbein

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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. Image courtesy of Wiki Commons. The Philippines, 2016.
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Caught between a rising China and a retreating United States, the Philippine government launches...

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ISIS fighters have left damage in their wake while trying to take hold of cities in the Philippines. Image by David Maurice Smith. Philippines, 2018.
ISIS fighters have left damage in their wake while trying to take hold of cities in the Philippines. Image by David Maurice Smith. Philippines, 2018.

In mid-2017, as ISIS fighters were falling back from their strongholds in Syria, an ISIS-linked rebellion led to the capture of a city on the other side of the world—in the Philippines. In Mother Jones, Saul Elbein talks about the surprising global nature of the world's most notorious terror group.

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