Inside ISIS: The making of a radical

He was a bright young Muslim living an idyllic Scandinavian life. What happened to the mind of Abu Tareq?

ISIS
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center))

The air was melting; it was a boiling October day in Raqqa, Syria, which the al Qaeda splinter group ISIS controls, claiming it as the first province of the Islamic State it is currently carving out of Syria and Iraq.

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