Yassin al-Jassem, pictured on the cover, was told by Islamic State rulers that if he gave his son to them to fight, they would pay for his 2-year-old grandson’s operation to remove a deadly brain tumor. Yassin chose to escape instead. Looking out on a bleak expanse of the Jordan desert, he told a Washington Post reporter, “I am never going back to Syria. It’s not my Syria anymore.” (Photo by Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post)