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Dutch Woman Who Joined ISIS, Sexually Abused Yazidi Slave In Syria, Jailed
A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for joining Islamic State in Syria and keeping a Yazidi woman as slave.
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US Soldier, Who Allegedly Aided ISIS, Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison
A US soldier who pleaded guilty to trying to provide information to the Islamic State group to help it attack American troops in the Middle East was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday.
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Russian Prison Siege By ISIS Inmates Ends, Hostages Safe
Two prison officers have been taken hostage by Islamic State inmates in a jail in Rostov, southern Russia, the prison services announced Sunday.
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Kurdish Leader Jailed For 42 Years Over 2014 Protests By Turkey Court
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced an ex-leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party to 42 years in prison for his alleged role in deadly 2014 protests that erupted as Islamic State group jihadists overran the Syrian town of Kobane.
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Iran Moves 5 Americans From Jail To House Arrest As Part Of "Swap" Deal
Iran has moved five Americans from jail to house arrest, officials and family members said Thursday, in the first step of a delicate deal that would unfreeze billions of dollars in Iranian funds and allow the prisoners to leave the Islamic republic.
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Libya Court Sentences 23 People To Death For Islamic State Campaign
A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015.
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US Woman Who Led Female ISIS Battalion Gets 20 Years In Jail
An American woman who converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State in Syria, leading an all-female military battalion, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a US court Tuesday.
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Ex-Briton ISIS 'Beatle' Jailed For Life By US Court For Killing Hostages
A member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court on Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.
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Saudi-Born Canadian Man Gets Life Sentence In US For Aiding ISIS
A U.S. judge sentenced a Saudi-born Canadian man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty in December to aiding Islamic State by working with propagandists who publicized the group's beheading of hostages including American journalist James Foley.
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German Woman Who Joined ISIS Gets 10-Year Jail Term For "Slave" Girl's Murder
A Munich court on Monday sentenced a German woman who joined the Islamic State group to 10 years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun.
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Kerala High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Repatriating Nimisha Fathima Living In Afghanistan Prison
The Kerala High Court has on Monday sought the view of the Central government on a petition filed on July 16, 2021, by the mother of Nimisha Fathima who is in Afghanistan prison following the killing of her Islamic State (IS) fighter husband.
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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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More Than 100 ISIS Prisoners Have Escaped In Syria: US Envoy
More than 100 prisoners of the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist movement have escaped in Syria in the chaos since Turkey's incursion, a senior US official said Wednesday.
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US Leaves "High-Value" ISIS Detainees Behind In Syria: Report
The American military was unable to carry out a plan to transfer about five dozen "high value" Islamic State detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Sunday.
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Future "Human Bombs" Warning As Europe's Jails Fill With ISIS Fighters
A few months before his killing rampage, convicted robber and prison inmate Benjamin Herman had a jailhouse conversion of a sort. A white suburban teen and a nominal Catholic when he was first incarcerated, he emerged in late May as an avowed Islamist who would murder three people within hours of gaining freedom on a work-release program.
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Dutch Woman Who Joined ISIS, Sexually Abused Yazidi Slave In Syria, Jailed
A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for joining Islamic State in Syria and keeping a Yazidi woman as slave.
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US Soldier, Who Allegedly Aided ISIS, Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison
A US soldier who pleaded guilty to trying to provide information to the Islamic State group to help it attack American troops in the Middle East was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday.
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Russian Prison Siege By ISIS Inmates Ends, Hostages Safe
Two prison officers have been taken hostage by Islamic State inmates in a jail in Rostov, southern Russia, the prison services announced Sunday.
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Kurdish Leader Jailed For 42 Years Over 2014 Protests By Turkey Court
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced an ex-leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party to 42 years in prison for his alleged role in deadly 2014 protests that erupted as Islamic State group jihadists overran the Syrian town of Kobane.
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Iran Moves 5 Americans From Jail To House Arrest As Part Of "Swap" Deal
Iran has moved five Americans from jail to house arrest, officials and family members said Thursday, in the first step of a delicate deal that would unfreeze billions of dollars in Iranian funds and allow the prisoners to leave the Islamic republic.
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Libya Court Sentences 23 People To Death For Islamic State Campaign
A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015.
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US Woman Who Led Female ISIS Battalion Gets 20 Years In Jail
An American woman who converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State in Syria, leading an all-female military battalion, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a US court Tuesday.
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Ex-Briton ISIS 'Beatle' Jailed For Life By US Court For Killing Hostages
A member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court on Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.
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Saudi-Born Canadian Man Gets Life Sentence In US For Aiding ISIS
A U.S. judge sentenced a Saudi-born Canadian man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty in December to aiding Islamic State by working with propagandists who publicized the group's beheading of hostages including American journalist James Foley.
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German Woman Who Joined ISIS Gets 10-Year Jail Term For "Slave" Girl's Murder
A Munich court on Monday sentenced a German woman who joined the Islamic State group to 10 years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun.
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Kerala High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Repatriating Nimisha Fathima Living In Afghanistan Prison
The Kerala High Court has on Monday sought the view of the Central government on a petition filed on July 16, 2021, by the mother of Nimisha Fathima who is in Afghanistan prison following the killing of her Islamic State (IS) fighter husband.
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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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More Than 100 ISIS Prisoners Have Escaped In Syria: US Envoy
More than 100 prisoners of the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist movement have escaped in Syria in the chaos since Turkey's incursion, a senior US official said Wednesday.
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US Leaves "High-Value" ISIS Detainees Behind In Syria: Report
The American military was unable to carry out a plan to transfer about five dozen "high value" Islamic State detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Sunday.
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Future "Human Bombs" Warning As Europe's Jails Fill With ISIS Fighters
A few months before his killing rampage, convicted robber and prison inmate Benjamin Herman had a jailhouse conversion of a sort. A white suburban teen and a nominal Catholic when he was first incarcerated, he emerged in late May as an avowed Islamist who would murder three people within hours of gaining freedom on a work-release program.
