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ISIS Head Killed By US Nicknamed 'Professor', Was "Brutal Policymaker"
The head of Islamic State group, whom the US declared dead in a special-forces raid Thursday, was nicknamed the "Destroyer" and presided over massacres of Yazidis before assuming the leadership.
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ISIS Stole US-Supplied Rockets Weeks After Arrival In Mideast: Report
The Islamic State may stand alone in its brutality in Iraq and Syria, where it orchestrated civilian massacres and suicide bombings and salted people's homes with thousands of improvised explosives. But a new report, three years in the making, describes the group as shrewd manufacturing and logistical planners who moved weapons, munitions and bombm...
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ISIS Is Kidnapping Thousands To Use As Human Shields
Islamic State militants have rounded up thousands of villagers at gunpoint to use as human shields as they retreat toward their stronghold of Mosul, the latest brutal war tactic inflicted on civilians in areas the group controls.
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Fearing Rape Again By ISIS, She Burnt Herself To Become 'Undesirable'
The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent.
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Inside The Brutal But Bizarrely Bureaucratic World Of ISIS In Libya
When the Islamic State's religious police arrived at his door, Ahmood Abu Amood feared he would never see his family again.
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Philippine President Duterte Warns Terrorists He Can Be '10 Times' More Brutal Than ISIS
In a speech in which he denounced the Islamic State for its "barbaric practice," Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gave a stern warning to the extremist group, saying he can be "10 times" more brutal.
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Raj Thackeray Calls for Sharia-Like Laws To Check Crimes Against Women
Slamming the BJP-led state government over the gangrape and murder of a minor girl here, MNS chief Raj Thackeray today said there was a need for a law like Sharia (Islamic) to check serious crimes against women and children.
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ISIS Executes 250 Women For Refusing To Become Sex Slaves: Report
ISIS, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report.
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Another ISIS Jailer Who Held Western Hostages Identified As Londoner
A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old convert to Islam who grew up in West London.
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In Chilling Accounts, Paris Doctors Tell of War-Like Effort to Save Hundreds of Wounded After Attacks
The scene at Lariboisiere Hospital in Paris was one of eerie order as patients began pouring in after terrorists attacked the city in a series of brutal coordinated attacks on Nov. 13.
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U.S. Drone Strike Targets Executioner of Hostages
The U.S. military launched a drone strike Thursday targeting "Jihadi John," the masked Islamic State terrorist who beheaded several Western hostages in Syria and came to symbolize the brutality of the militant group, U.S. officials said.
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Islamic State Claims Murders of Syrian Activist, Friend in Turkey: Video
The Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday posted a video claiming responsibility for the brutal murders of a Syrian anti-IS activist and his friend in southern Turkey last week.
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Russia Strikes Hinder Syria Aid Delivery: Red Cross
Russian air strikes in Syria are making it harder to deliver desperately needed aid to civilians suffering from the country's brutal war, the International Committee for the Red Cross said.
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US Rebel Training Program 'Nuts,' Ex-Pentagon Chief Says
A doomed US plan now on hold to train Syrian rebel fighters outside the country to fight the Islamic State was "nuts," former defense secretary Robert Gates said.
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In the Islamic State 'Caliphate,' Daily Life is Laden With Fear and Brutality
For women, living in the Islamic State homeland often means being subjected to a virtual assembly-line system for providing brides to fighters, or sometimes being abducted and forced into unwanted marriages.
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ISIS Head Killed By US Nicknamed 'Professor', Was "Brutal Policymaker"
The head of Islamic State group, whom the US declared dead in a special-forces raid Thursday, was nicknamed the "Destroyer" and presided over massacres of Yazidis before assuming the leadership.
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ISIS Stole US-Supplied Rockets Weeks After Arrival In Mideast: Report
The Islamic State may stand alone in its brutality in Iraq and Syria, where it orchestrated civilian massacres and suicide bombings and salted people's homes with thousands of improvised explosives. But a new report, three years in the making, describes the group as shrewd manufacturing and logistical planners who moved weapons, munitions and bombm...
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ISIS Is Kidnapping Thousands To Use As Human Shields
Islamic State militants have rounded up thousands of villagers at gunpoint to use as human shields as they retreat toward their stronghold of Mosul, the latest brutal war tactic inflicted on civilians in areas the group controls.
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Fearing Rape Again By ISIS, She Burnt Herself To Become 'Undesirable'
The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent.
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Inside The Brutal But Bizarrely Bureaucratic World Of ISIS In Libya
When the Islamic State's religious police arrived at his door, Ahmood Abu Amood feared he would never see his family again.
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Philippine President Duterte Warns Terrorists He Can Be '10 Times' More Brutal Than ISIS
In a speech in which he denounced the Islamic State for its "barbaric practice," Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gave a stern warning to the extremist group, saying he can be "10 times" more brutal.
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Raj Thackeray Calls for Sharia-Like Laws To Check Crimes Against Women
Slamming the BJP-led state government over the gangrape and murder of a minor girl here, MNS chief Raj Thackeray today said there was a need for a law like Sharia (Islamic) to check serious crimes against women and children.
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ISIS Executes 250 Women For Refusing To Become Sex Slaves: Report
ISIS, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report.
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Another ISIS Jailer Who Held Western Hostages Identified As Londoner
A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old convert to Islam who grew up in West London.
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In Chilling Accounts, Paris Doctors Tell of War-Like Effort to Save Hundreds of Wounded After Attacks
The scene at Lariboisiere Hospital in Paris was one of eerie order as patients began pouring in after terrorists attacked the city in a series of brutal coordinated attacks on Nov. 13.
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U.S. Drone Strike Targets Executioner of Hostages
The U.S. military launched a drone strike Thursday targeting "Jihadi John," the masked Islamic State terrorist who beheaded several Western hostages in Syria and came to symbolize the brutality of the militant group, U.S. officials said.
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Islamic State Claims Murders of Syrian Activist, Friend in Turkey: Video
The Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday posted a video claiming responsibility for the brutal murders of a Syrian anti-IS activist and his friend in southern Turkey last week.
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Russia Strikes Hinder Syria Aid Delivery: Red Cross
Russian air strikes in Syria are making it harder to deliver desperately needed aid to civilians suffering from the country's brutal war, the International Committee for the Red Cross said.
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US Rebel Training Program 'Nuts,' Ex-Pentagon Chief Says
A doomed US plan now on hold to train Syrian rebel fighters outside the country to fight the Islamic State was "nuts," former defense secretary Robert Gates said.
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In the Islamic State 'Caliphate,' Daily Life is Laden With Fear and Brutality
For women, living in the Islamic State homeland often means being subjected to a virtual assembly-line system for providing brides to fighters, or sometimes being abducted and forced into unwanted marriages.
