Islamic State Mass Killings

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  Afghan Forces Retake Prison Attacked By Islamic State; 29 Killed

  Afghan security forces laid siege to a prison seized by Islamic State fighters in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Monday, with at least 29 people killed after the terrorists overnight assault led to a mass jailbreak.

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  Harjit Masih, Who Escaped ISIS In Mosul, Describes Shooting Of Indians

  In 2014, 40 Indian construction workers went missing outside the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The city had fallen to the Islamic State militant group just days before. Relatives said they received panicked calls from some of the workers, begging for help

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  Once Promised Paradise, ISIS Terrorists End Up In Mass Graves

  The ISIS once drew recruits from near and far with promises of paradise but now bodies of terrorists lie in mass graves or at the mercy of wild dogs as its "caliphate" collapses

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  Las Vegas Shooter Killed Himself Before Police Could Get Him: 10 Points

  Stephen Craig Paddock, a 64-year-old Nevada resident identified as the gunman in America's worst mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert on Sunday, had more than 10 guns including machine guns in the hotel room from where he killed at least 59 people and wounded over 500. There have been no reports of any Indian casualty in the mass shooting that US P...

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  ISIS Dumped Bodies In Sinkhole, But Full Scale Of Killings Might Not Be Known For Years

  Residents said the Islamic State pushed dozens of trailers and old cars into the hole before filling it with earth, though some said mass killings at the site continued until as recently as six months ago.

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  Munich Gunman Was Obsessed With Mass Killings, Had No Ties To ISIS, Say Officials

  Munich authorities said Saturday that the gunman who went on a rampage at a shopping center Friday, leaving nine people dead, had no ties to the Islamic State or other extremist groups. Instead, police believe, he was obsessed with mass killings and may have been mentally ill.

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  Gunman Who Killed 50 In Orlando Nightclub Had Pledged Allegiance To ISIS

  A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire inside a crowded gay bar and dance club here early Sunday, leaving 50 people dead and 53 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, authorities said.

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  A Yazidi Woman Shares Her Story Of Terror At The Hands Of The Islamic State

  On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the local school, where men were to head upstairs, women downstairs. A sight along the way terrified the 20-year-old even more: backhoes at work. She'd seen videos of Islamic State fighters filling mass graves. ...

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  Kurdish Forces Prepare for Battle to Retake Iraq's Sinjar

  Kurdish forces are massing in northwest Iraq for an offensive to retake the town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering US-led air strikes.

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  Tens of Thousands Turn Up for Funeral of Saudi Suicide Attack Victims

  Tens of thousands of people turned out at a mass funeral in eastern Saudi Arabia for 21 Shi'ite Muslims killed last week in a suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State, a Reuters witness said.

• Mass Grave of 230 Killed by Jihadists Found in Syria: Monitoring Group

  The bodies of 230 people killed by the Islamic State group have been found in a mass grave uncovered by their relatives in Syria's Deir Ezzor province, a monitoring group said Wednesday.

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  As Iraq Woos Tribes, Jihadists Sow Fear With Mass Killings

  As Iraq seeks support from powerful tribal leaders against the Islamic State group, the jihadists have launched a campaign of mass killings aimed at sowing enough fear to warn them off.

• IS Jihadists Carry Out Mass Killings of Iraqi Tribe

  The Islamic State group has carried out a fresh wave of mass killings, officials said Sunday, executing more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe which took up arms against the jihadists.

• Islamic State Kills 85 More Members of Iraqi Tribe

  Islamic State executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week to break their resistance to the group's territorial advances, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday.

• 'No' From One Iraq Villager Triggered Islamic State Mass Killings

  When Islamic State militants stormed into a northern Iraqi village and ordered everyone to convert to Islam or die only one person refused.