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Young American girl whose mother joined ISIS and died has been rescued
An 8-year-old girl who was born in America and grew up under ISIS rule has reportedly been rescued from a Syrian camp and is now waiting to hear whether she can return to the United States. Aminah Mohamad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on December 8, 2011 to an American woman and an Iraqi father.
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New Charges Derail COVID Release for Hacker Who Aided ISIS
A hacker serving a 20-year sentence for stealing personal data on 1,300 U.S. military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. The new charges have derailed plans to deport him under compassionate release because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why isn’t the media covering Turkish President Erdogan’s ties to ISIS
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pitched his tent at New York’s glitzy Peninsula Hotel this week, where he will be dining (but not wining) American Muslim leaders
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Mattis: ISIS will surge back after Trump's Syria withdrawal
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis said ISIS "will resurge" in Syria, in his first public comments following President Donald Trump's withdrawal of troops from the region. "I think Secretary of State Pompeo, the intelligence services, the foreign countries that are working with us have it about right that ISIS is not defeated. We have got to keep the pressure on ISIS so they don't recover," Mattis said in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" set to air Sunday.
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They fought alongside the US for five years to be bombed by US NATO ally
Like thieves in the night US forces withdrew from their positions, without explanation, processes, discussions, or leaving behind people to monitor the area.
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ISIS claims Sri Lanka attacks; official says bombings were retaliation for Christchurch assault on Muslims
The Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a series of bombings at churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday that killed 321 and injured 500. The group made the claim through its Amaq News Agency. Its statement, two days after the deadly attacks, came after a senior government official said the bombings were "in retaliation" for mass shootings at two mosques in New Zealand last month.
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U.S. has spent $6 trillion on wars that killed 500,000 people since 9/11, a report says
The United States has spent nearly $6 trillion on wars that directly contributed to the deaths of around 500,000 people since the 9/11 attacks of 2001. Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs published its annual "Costs of War" report Wednesday, taking into consideration the Pentagon's spending and its Overseas Contingency Operations account, as well as "war-related spending by the Department of State, past and obligated spending for war veterans’ care, interest on the debt incurred to pay for the wars, and the prevention of and response to terrorism by the Department of Homeland Security."
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How Trump Betrayed the General Who Defeated ISIS
General Mazloum Kobani Abdi led the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, forging an unlikely partnership between scrappy local militias and élite U.S. Special Forces. Then the President withdrew the American troops.
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ISIS has lost its final stronghold in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces says
ISIS has lost its final stronghold in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces announced Saturday, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist group in 2014. The coalition of Kurdish and Arab soldiers backed by US, British and French special forces said it defeated ISIS and fully liberated Baghouz in eastern Syria.
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ISIS bride Hoda Muthana's family files lawsuit against Trump
The father of a woman who traveled from her home in Alabama to marry an Islamic State fighter filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration as part of an effort to get her and his 18-month-old grandson returned to the United States.
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IS teenager to lose UK citizenship
Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, is to lose her UK citizenship. Whitehall sources said it was possible to strip the 19-year-old of British nationality as she was eligible for citizenship of another country. Her family's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said they were "disappointed" with the decision and were considering "all legal avenues" to challenge it. Ms Begum, who left east London in 2015, had said she wanted to return home.
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Life under ISIS led these Muslims to Christianity
Four years have passed since the Islamic State group's fighters were run out of Kobani, a strategic city on the Syrian-Turkish border, but the militants' violent and extreme interpretation of Islam has left some questioning their faith. A new church is attracting converts. It is the first local Christian place of worship for decades.
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'ISIS terrorists' called murdered Scandinavians the 'enemies of God'
Suspected ISIS terrorists branded two Scandinavian women the 'enemies of God' as they filmed themselves decapitating one of the tourists in Morocco. Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, were found dead near the village of Imlil in Morocco's High Atlas mountains on Monday.
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U.S.-backed fighters in Syria capture last town held by ISIS
U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters captured the last town held by the Islamic State group on Friday, after days of intense battles in the militants' single remaining enclave in eastern Syria, activists said. The fall of Hajin is a blow to the extremists. The town was their main stronghold in the last pocket of land they control in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. ISIS still holds some villages nearby.
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Inside the Hunt for the World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist
How a British hacker joined ISIS’s top ranks and launched a deadly global cyber plot.
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ISIS chief Baghdadi's youngest son 'is killed in Russian airstrike'
ISIS mastermind Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's youngest son has been killed in a Russian airstrike, it has been claimed. Baghdadi's son died in a bombing raid on a 'terrorist hideout' in a Syrian village on September 22, according to an Iraqi commander.
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British 'pharmacist who joined IS' detained
A British man who says he is a pharmacist from Birmingham has been detained in Syria on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State group. Kurdish forces captured Anwar Miah in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour a month ago. A video of his capture has surfaced on Twitter and shows Mr Miah saying he has lived in Syria for nearly four years.
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Iraq sentences senior ISIS leader to death
A court in Baghdad sentenced to death a senior Islamic State figure and former deputy to its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Ismail Alwaan al-Ithawi was sentenced on Wednesday, September 19 to death by hanging, said Judge Abdul Sattar Birkdar, spokesperson for the Supreme Judicial council. Ithawi, who went by the kunya, or nom de guerre, Abu Zeid al-Iraqi is an Iraqi national in charge of ISIS’s religious rulings and education curriculum, and sat on an important leadership committee.
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US confirms death of ISIS leader in Afghanistan
US forces in Afghanistan confirmed Sunday that the head of ISIS in the country was killed in a strike a little over a week ago. The strike, on Saturday, August 25, was in the eastern area of Nangarhar province and killed Abu Sayed Orakzai, according to a statement from US forces in Afghanistan. CNN reported previously that the ISIS leader and 10 other fighters from the terrorist group were killed in an airstrike, according to provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogyani.
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Future war will result in destruction 'beyond our comprehension', says US General
Future wars will be more Stalingrad than Star Wars, a US General has said as he warns against a relentless focus on technology. General Stephen Townsend, the head of the US Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, told British military leaders at the annual Kermit Roosevelt lecture in London, that combat in an increasingly urbanised world will result in a “scale of devastation beyond our comprehension”.
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