You really are a terrorist? How Russias FSB recruits former ISIS fighters ? and tries to plant them in Ukrainian battalions, (with Lilia Yapparova), Meduza, May 2023
Priests Once Aligned With Russia Come Under Suspicion in Ukraine, (with Valerie Hopkins and Oleksandr Chubko), New York Times, 14 July 2022
The Kyiv unit patrolling the streets as law and order cracks under war (with Emma Graham-Harrison), The Guardian, 7 May 2022
Donetsk separatists desperate draft campaign empties streets of men (with Emma Graham-Harrison), The Guardian, 28 April 2022
Russia attacks infrastructure in western Ukraine to slow supply lines (with Emma Graham-Harrison), The Guardian, 27 April 2022
Russia using weapons smuggled by Iran from Iraq against Ukraine (with Bethan McKernan), The Guardian, 11 April 2022
Putin promotes Chechen leader with ties to murder of Kremlin critic (with Emma Graham-Harrison), The Guardian, 30 March 2022
Chechnyas losses in Ukraine may be leader Ramzan Kadyrovs undoing (with Emma Graham-Harrison), The Guardian, 22 March 2022
Revealed: how fake passports allow IS members to enter Europe and US (with Bethan McKernan), The Guardian, 31 January 2022
Revealed: life inside global villages of Islamic State jihadis in Afghanistan, (with Emma Graham-Harrison), The Guardian, 5 September 2021
How women of ISIS in Syrian camps are marrying their way to freedom, (with Bethan McKernan and Emma Graham-Harrison), The Guardian, 2 July 2021
From Russia with blood: the Chechens on Putins kill list Sunday Times, 21 March 2021
What to Do About the Children of the Islamic State, Foreign Policy, 25 November 2020
Foreign Fighters? Life After the Caliphate, Foreign Policy, 22 October 2020
Spending the Pandemic in an Iraqi Jail, Foreign Policy, 3 September 2020
The Iraqi Military Wont Survive a Tug of War Between the United States and Iran, Foreign Policy, 15 January 2020
The Worlds Most Dangerous Coronavirus Lockdowns Foreign Policy, 1 April 2020
The Year the Islamic State Lost Its Last Strongholds Foreign Policy, 27 December 2019
The Future of Iraqs Oil Is Russian (with Mohammed Hussein), Foreign Policy, 15 November 2019
Captives in ISIS Detention Camps Fear Calm Before the Storm (with Mohammed Hussein), Daily Beast, 18 October 2019
Iraq Confronts Its Own Prisoners Dilemma (with Sam Whitt and Dara Tahsim Assi), Article, Foreign Policy, 12 October 2019
The New Face of Terrorism in 2019 Article, Foreign Policy, Special New Year Issue, 1 January 2019
Islamic State Fighters Are Back, and This Time They Are Taking Up Arms With Shiite Militias (with Mohammed Hussein), Article, Foreign Policy, 15 October 2018, translated and reprinted in Alfajr News (in Arabic) and Rudaw (in Kurdish)
Putin Is Building a Bosnian Paramilitary Force (with Bogdan Zawadewicz), Article, Foreign Policy, 8 August 2018
The Bloody Split Within ISIS (with Ekaterina Sergatskova and Karam Al- hamad), Article, Foreign Affairs, 8 December 2017
ISIS’ Intelligence Service Refuses to Die (with Ekaterina Sergatskova and Karam Alhamad), Article, Foreign Affairs, 22 November 2017
The Lives of Foreign Fighters Who Left ISIS (with Ekaterina Sergatskova and Karam Alhamad), Article, Foreign Affairs, 27 October 2017
Will Former ISIS Fighters Help the Rohingya? (with Ekaterina Sergatskova), Article, Foreign Affairs, 23 September 2017
The Chechens of Syria (with Ekaterina Sergatskova), Article, Foreign Affairs, 9 September 2017
How Ukraine Reined In Its Militias (with Ekaterina Sergatskova), Article, Foreign Affairs, 1 August 2017
The Names of Jihad (with Karam Alhamad), Article, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2017
The Struggle Over Sinjar (with Mohammed Hussein), Article, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2017
Land Grabs in Iraq (with Mohammed Hussein), Article, Foreign Affairs, 10 April 2017
Cracks in the Islamic State (with Ekaterina Sergatskova), Article, Foreign Affairs, 15 February 2017
ISIS New Frontier (with Karam Alhamad), Article, Foreign Affairs, 1 February 2017; translated and reprinted in Aljazeera (in Arabic)
The New ISIS Insurgency (with Mohammed Hussein), Article, Foreign Affairs, 9 January 2017
The Overloaded Prisons of Iraq Article, Foreign Affairs, 1 December 2016 11. “Iraq After ISIS,” (with Mohammed Hussein), Article, Foreign Affairs, 3 November 2016
The Downfall of ISIS (with Mohammed Hussein), Article, Foreign Affairs, 26 September 2016; Translated and Reprinted in Arabi21; Ghad (Lebanon); Rasseen (Jordan)
What Would You Do If Your Neighborhood Turned Into a War Zone? Pod-cast, Boston Globe, 29 February, 2016
In Two Charts, This Is What Refugees Say About Why They Are Leaving Syria Now (with Karam Alhamad and Sam Whitt), Article, Washington Post, 28 September 2015
The Jihadi Who Came in From the Cold (with Ahmed Mhidi and Sam Whitt), Article, Foreign Policy, 10 August 2015
Ramadan in Syria (with Karam Alhamad and Sam Whitt), Article, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2015
Why Are fighters leaving the Free Syrian Army? (with Loubna Mrie and Sam Whitt), Article, Washington Post, 12 May 2014, Reprinted in POMEPS Briefing “Syria and the Islamic State”
Syria’s Democracy Jihad (with Rich Nilson, Loubna Mrie and Sam Whitt), Article, Foreign Affairs, 14 January 2014; Reprinted in “The ISIS Crises” edited by Gideon Rose
I Am Only Looking Up For Paradise (with Loubna Mrie and Sam Whitt), Article, Foreign Policy, 2 October 2014
Ukraine’s Do-It-Yourself War (with Valerie Hopkins), Article, Foreign Policy, 11 July 2014
Putin Is Behaving in Ukraine Like Milosevic Did in Serbia (with Maria Snegovaya), Article, The New Republic, 19 June 2014; Reprinted by KievPost (Ukraine), Russia Today (Russia), Chanel 9 (Israel)