Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London when she was aged 15 to join Islamic State in Syria, has had her British citizenship revoked, according to a letter sent to her family published by ITV News on Tuesday. Begum, who gave birth to a son at the...
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Nearly five years after slipping out of the US to join ISIS, Hoda Muthana wants to come home again to Alabama with the baby she had as the wife of a jihadi fighter. Her family paints her as a victim, a “vulnerable young woman” who wants...
ISIS has lost control of almost all of its territory after a years-long military campaign. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Associated Press reporter Sarah El Deeb, who is at the frontlines of the fight.
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President Trump says European allies should take back citizens who left to join ISIS and put them on trial. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with anti-terrorism expert Peter Neumann about repatriation.
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The New Yorker staff writer Ben Taub has won a George Polk Award for his story “Shallow Graves,” about how the effort to eliminate ISIS in Iraq has led to mass executions, detainment camps, and a culture of revenge that is corroding the country...
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Donald Trump has urged European allies to repatriate over 800 Daesh (ISIS)* militants held by the US's Kurdish allies in Syria and to try them for their crimes, warning that they could be released if no action was taken. Speaking to Sputnik, legal...
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Trucks entered the last Islamic State enclave in eastern Syria on Tuesday to evacuate remaining civilians, a source in the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said. The SDF has said isolating the civilians in the enclave at Baghouz from the...
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Norway, Sweden and Denmark have responded to US President Donald Trump's demand for Europe to take back their ISIS fighters. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said that dozens of adult Norwegian militants in Syria are free to return home and...
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After President Trump's provocative tweets on Sunday wherein he urged European countries to "take back" and prosecute some 800 ISIS foreign fighters as US forces withdraw from Syria, or else "we will be forced to release them," the message has been...
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Hoda Muthana and Shamima Begum fled to Syria to marry Islamic State group fighters. Now they want to come home.
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President Trump says ISIS is close to eradicated and is asking European allies to take back ISIS fighters captured in Syria. We assess the remaining ISIS presence in Syria and Iraq.
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Shamima Begum claims she was “just a house wife” who, during her four year odyssey, simply took care of her husband and children. In an interview with Sky News’s John Sparks, the teenager who left the UK to join ISIS says...
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Perhaps the Council of Europe considers Åberg's successful efforts of turning in fellow Swedes to the police for perceived thought crimes an example that other European countries should...
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The so-called Islamic State, a terrorist group which took over large tracts of Syria over the last decade using violence and online propaganda, is finally being cornered into defeat, according to reports emerging from the Middle East.
The ISIS now...
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By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor
If there was ever a “nation” in the ordinary meaning comprising the Islamic State it is unquestionably moribund. The area reportedly controlled by the terrorist organization remains for the time...
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Four-star Gen. Joseph Votel, who leads the fight against ISIS as commander of United States Central Command (Centcom), challenged Trump’s erratic decision to pull out from Syria in an interview with CNN Friday.
“It would not have been my...
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Arizona Sheriff’s Deputy handles jihadist knife attack calmly and efficiently
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The dark web has sprawled into an illegal marketplace for user data, illegally trafficked animal products, military secrets, stolen art, and much more.
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A teenage girl who ran away to join ISIS now says she wants to return to the UK.
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The U.S. commander who has been leading the war against ISIS told CNN that he disagreed with Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria and warned that the terror group was far from defeated, in a stark public break with the...
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