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El Shafee Elsheikh has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of four U.S. hostages captured by the Islamic State.

An Islamic State member is sentenced to life in prison in the deaths of hostages

4:20pm August 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

El Shafee Elsheikh, part of a group known as the "ISIS Beatles," is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State to be convicted in the U.S,, prosecutors said.

A photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office in January 2022 shows Allison Fluke-Ekren. Fluke-Ekren, 42, who once lived in Kansas, has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all

A U.S. woman pleads guilty to leading an all-female ISIS battalion

9:55am June 08, 2022

by Shauneen Miranda

Allison Fluke-Ekren admitted to operating an all-female ISIS military group and training women and girls on how to use explosive devices.

A jury convicted a British national El Shafee Elsheikh for his role in an Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago.

A member of Islamic State group known as 'Beatles' is convicted in Americans' deaths

2:53pm April 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

A jury convicted a British national for his role in hostage-takings that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, three of whom were beheaded.

Hassan Sham (pictured above) is one of 26 displaced persons camps in northern Iraq. Most of the residents are the wives and children of ISIS fighters — who say they are considered outcasts because of the stigma and are no longer welcome in their hometow

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A life in limbo for the wives and children of ISIS fighters

1:45pm March 15, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

Most of the residents of the Hassan Sham camp in northern Iraq feel like outcasts, with nowhere else to go. And conditions are getting worse as funding for food, education and health care dries up.

People check a destroyed house after a U.S. military operation in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, on Thursday. U.S. special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a successful, large-scale counterterrorism raid. Local residents and

What is known about the ISIS leader who died during a U.S. raid in Syria

12:31pm February 03, 2022

by The Associated Press

The leader of the Islamic State group who died during a U.S. raid overnight in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with almost no known photos, never appearing in public or in the group's videos.

Medical and hospital staff carry an injured man on a stretcher for treatment outside the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport after blasts Thursday. U.S. service members and Afghan civilians were among those killed and injured.

What We Know About ISIS-K, The Group Behind The Kabul Attack

1:18pm August 27, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

A regional Islamic State affiliate is a major rival to the Taliban in Afghanistan. The U.S. says ISIS-K has long planned attacks on its personnel in the country.

In this March 31, 2019, photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria.

World News

No Country Will Take Them: Alleged ISIS Widow With Kids The Latest Of Many In Limbo

8:48am March 26, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The case of a woman who reportedly married ISIS fighters and is now stuck in Turkey with her young children has become the subject of a diplomatic dispute between Australia and New Zealand.

Nofa Khudeda (left) and a neighbor in the village of Tel Qasab on the day Khudeda and her husband returned after six years in a camp for displaced Yazidis. Khudeda and her husband, Ali Edo, repaired and renovated the house, which had been looted by ISIS f

World News

With No Options, Displaced Iraqi Yazidis Return To Homes Destroyed In ISIS Fight

5:42pm December 03, 2020

by Jane Arraf

Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling to be home," says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived.

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Khaled Jamal Abdullah after running away from home to pledge allegiance to ISIS and join the militant group as a fighter. He had just turned 16.

Iraqi Family Identifies Their Son As ISIS Teen At Center Of Navy War Crimes Trial

12:25am October 30, 2020

by Jane Arraf

The name of the young ISIS fighter was not revealed in U.S. court proceedings, and the records are sealed. NPR has identified the fighter with the help of Iraqi officials and the teenager's family.

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A woman walks past a wrecked van near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha. Local residents and medical staff told NPR that noncombatant civilians who were in the van were injured and killed last year the night of the U.S. raid on the compound of IS

Pentagon Says 2 Men Killed In Baghdadi Raid Were Combatants But Offers Little Evidence

7:59pm October 27, 2020

by Daniel Estrin

After NPR reported claims of civilian deaths in the operation against the ISIS chief, Central Command says the men showed "hostile intent," but it found no weapons or signs they fired at U.S. forces.

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