Atika Shubert, CNN: How ISIS controls life, from birth to foosball
(CNN) It has all the key points you'd expect on a birth certificate -- baby's weight, length and date of birth confirmed with an official insignia. The difference here is the governing authority's stamp: The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
It's one of many official documents relating to matters such as vaccination schedules, fishing methods and rent disputes in the areas now controlled by ISIS.
For ISIS sees itself as a government operating under a rule of law, even if the group is most often talked about for its barbaric punishment of anyone who resists or defies its medieval interpretation of that Islamic law.
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 21, 2015
Was ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi injured? -- Rowena Lindsay, CSM
Saudi calls time on Yemen bombing campaign: Time for politics? -- Dan Murphy, CSM
How the fall of Qaddafi gave rise to Europe's migrant crisis -- Dan Murphy, CSM
Cause behind African migrant flood has terrifying implications for the world -- Michael Werz and Max Hoffman, Reuters
Can Syria's Assad withstand latest battlefield setbacks? -- Nicholas Blanford, CSM
A Potential Game Changer for North Korea -- Sam Doo, Real Clear World
China's dream scenario for Asia -- Julian Snelder, The Interpreter
Euro or Drachma, Greece Must Finally Choose -- Bloomberg editorial
Why the Real Deadline for Greece Is July 20 -- David Powell, Bloomberg
One Hundred Years of Silence: Turks Slowly Take Stock of Armenian Genocide -- Ralf Hoppe, Spiegel Online
President Obama’s Failed Africa Policy -- Lionel Beehner, Cicero Magazine
Obama's Realism -- Paul R. Pillar, National Interest
A Nazi war crimes trial like no other -- CBS
Five ways to reboot NATO -- James Stavridis, Politico
What American foreign policy will look like in 2050 -- Kevin B. Sullivan, The Week
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