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Photo above: Peter Bregg   ISIS’s fighters can be thrill-seekers running from trouble. I interview several ISIS fighters from behind bars.

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Photo above: Andrew Quilty In a rehearsal hall in downtown Kabul, 19-year-old Negin Khpolwak stands in front of the all-women symphony orchestra, her baton poised and with the nod of her head, she makes history as she begins her first performance as a conductor. On the outskirts of town, on the Omid-e-Sabz foothills that roll out of snow capped mountains, Zahra Naarin, 24, and Zakia Mohammadi, 21, are careening down …

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Photo above: Peter Bregg “Why should I tell you my story? I told it before and no one came to help.” Zinab, a 31-year-old Yazidi, was captured by Islamic State in Kocho, a village in Kurdistan, Iraq, on Aug. 3, 2014. That was the day the terror group invaded the ancient Yazidi homeland and began a reign of terror.  She was made a sex slave, endured constant rapes and beatings; …

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