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The article presents information on the psychological history of delivery driver Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel who ran over and killed hundreds of people using a cargo truck in Nice, France. Topics include Bouhlel's inclination for violence and alleged psychosis, accounts of his short temper, and the exploitation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) on emotionally unstable individuals. It also discusses how Bouhlel was a wife beater, womanizer, and obsessed with his appearance.

The article reports on the measures taken by the Iraqi Kurdish officials and the administration against the hundreds of suspected fighters who worked for the extremist group ISIS and who are arrive at checkpoints and are claiming innocence and begging for mercy. Many of such people are claiming that they were cooks in ISIS.

The article announces that the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.) wants to introduce an ethics policy that would prohibit psychologists from participating in any national security interrogations. The author explores how this would impact the U.S. government's ability to interrogate terrorist suspects and examines an investigation into the prior participation of psychologists in interrogation programs organized by the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) and Department of Defense.

The article discusses the background and personality of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a gunman who was killed after attacking the Canadian Parliament Building in Ottawa, Ontario, noting Zehaf-Bibeau's history of personal troubles and mental instability and his embrace of radical Islam. Topics addressed include concerns regarding the radicalization of terrorists in Western states, Zehaf-Bibeau's frustration over being denied a passport to travel to Syria, and his history of criminal activity and drug addiction.

The article discusses the possible motivations of brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev for bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, noting that both were U.S. residents. Topics include the Islamic beliefs of the brothers, their Chechen ethnic heritage, and similar cases of suspected terrorists Faisal Shahzad, Nidal Malik Hasan, and Najibullah Zazi.

The article focuses on the psychology of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two suspects in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, considering his previous tweets.

Edgar Ramirez, 'Carlos' How does it feel to throw yourself into playing a monster? Hard. After the shoot of Olivier Assayas's new drama, ''Carlos'' (Oct. 15), about Carlos the Jackal, the infamous revolutionary terrorist who cut a murderous swath across continents in the '70s and '80s, Edgar Ramirez, the 33-year-old Venezuelan actor, used a special physical and psychological therapy to rid himself of seven months of emotions, tics and attitudes that weren't his. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]