Newsweek Magazine

October 21, 2016 Issue

Features

Cover story World

The so-called caliphate may be losing ground in Iraq and Syria, but hardcore jihadis will keep fighting—there and in the West.

U.S.

When Kids Pull the Trigger, Who is Responsible?

Not the gun owners, says the NRA, which is fighting hard to keep it that way.

In Focus

Slaughterhouse

Aleppo, Syria—A Syrian civil defense volunteer carries the body of a child out of the rubble following a government airstrike on the rebel neighborhood of Karm Homad on October 4. Intense street battles erupted as Syrian government forces advanced against rebel fighters in the heart of the city after cease-fire talks between the U.S. and Russia broke down. Since the civil war began in Syria in 2011, over 400,000 people have been killed in the violence, with more than one in 10 Syrians killed or wounded, according to a February report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research.

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U.S.

How Trump Ditched U.S. Steel Workers in Favor of China

With their industries besieged by imports, key swing states were deprived of untold millions of dollars as Trump chose China.

World

What's Aleppo?

As Syrian and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held areas in Aleppo, Moscow residents seemed to respond with a collective shrug.

World

Women's Rights in Lesotho are Hanging by a Thread

The end of an American trade deal could be disastrous for Lesotho, and the country's female garment workers stand to lose the most.

World

Getting a Fecund Chance

More Israeli men are freezing their sperm before going off to war, and a growing number of parents are extracting semen from their loved ones after their deaths.