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The article reports on three British teenage girls, Khadiza Sultana, Shamima Begum, and Amira Abase, who secretly left home and traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group, and discusses the social conditions of Muslim women and girls in Great Britain and other Western countries and the strategies used by IS to recruit them. Topics include identity and rebellion in teenagers and Muslim groups in Great Britain working to prevent Islamist radicalization.

The article discusses the public release of the identity of Mohammed Emwazi, a member of the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist organization who has been filmed executing prisoners and was referred to as Jihadi John by the press. Topics addressed include Emwazi's background living in West London after moving from Kuwait as a 6-year-old, as well as British intelligence agencies' awareness of Emwazi as a potential terrorist as early as 2009.

The article reports on two groups of medical students and young doctors who were recruited by former medical student Mohammed Fakhri al-Khabass from Middlesbrough, England of Palestinian descent, to join the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS), according to a report on July 17, 2015.