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Iraq's Mosul Finds Its Way Back To Life A Decade After It Fell To ISIS
It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul's Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had become since it was liberated in 2017.
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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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Techie Gets Life Sentence For Plotting Attack At American School In Mumbai
Cops said he was supporting terror group ISIS and his FB chats showed he wanted to carry out an attack on the American School
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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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Terrorist Who Planned ISIS-Style Killings In Kolkata Gets Life Sentence
A special NIA court in Kolkata on Friday sentenced Mohd Mosiuddin alias Musa, accused of plotting Islamic State-style chilling execution of foreigners, to life imprisonment.
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Congress Backs "Triple Talaq", Salman Khurshid Strikes Discordant Note
The Congress today said it supports the "triple talaq" bill introduced in the Lok Sabha but wants it to be strengthened to safeguard the rights of divorced Muslim women so they live a life of dignity with adequate subsistence allowance. "Triple talaq" is the Islamic practice of men divorcing their wives by stating "talaq" (divo...
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It's Nearly Impossible To Stop Terrorists From Using Trucks As Weapons. Here's What Cities Are Trying.
Nice, Berlin, London and now Stockholm. Over the past year, terrorist attacks using vehicles have become a sad fact of life in Europe. Such attacks are obviously appealing to would-be mass murderers: In most European nations, a truck is far easier to acquire than a firearm or explosives, and sometimes even deadlier. Groups such as the Islamic State...
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The Double Life Of A 'Spy' Beheaded By ISIS
In the video, a man in an orange jump suit kneels beside a lake in Syria and confesses in Russian to spying on ISIS militants. Another Russian speaker, this one in camouflage fatigues, then uses a hunting knife to hack off the kneeling man's head.
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This Strange Story About ISIS Using Birds As Suicide Bombers Shows How Life Can Imitate Art
According to the news site Vocativ, which mines social media for its scoops, an online sympathizer of the Islamic State proposed a somewhat bizarre new tactic for the militant group over the weekend. Using the messaging app Telegram, this apparent Islamic State loyalist uploaded what Vocativ deemed a "comprehensive plan" to target coalition aircraf...
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In Conservative Pakistani City, a 'Saudi Girl' Who Stood Out
Tashfeen Malik, a suspect in the California attacks, studied at a Pakistani university but spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia. The timing and circumstances of her shift into militancy, however, remain a mystery.
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Life Returns to Syrian Town After ISIS Ousted
Outside her home in a town of northeast Syria, four-year-old Baydaa scribbles on a leaflet of religious rules left behind by the ISIS as they fled earlier this month.
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Key Events in Life of Paris Attacks' Alleged Mastermind
The alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was reported by French authorities on Thursday to have been killed the previous day during a police siege in the Paris suburb of St Denis. He was born in Belgium to a Moroccan-born immigrant shopkeeper who lives and owns a clothing store in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean borough of Brussels...
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Paris Plans Defiant Night of Food, Drink and Cafe Life
Parisians rallied for a night of the eating and drinking they are famous for on Tuesday, in defiance of the Islamist militants who gunned down Friday night revellers last week.
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In an Islamic State Prison, He Had No Hope. But Then He Heard the Drones.
Two prisoners held in the facility described life in an Islamic State prison and the mission that set them free. The operation, which a Kurdish commando also detailed, freed 69 detainees and was the first confirmed time that U.S. troops had directly accompanied Iraqi forces on the battlefield in the fight against the Islamic State.
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Iraq's Mosul Finds Its Way Back To Life A Decade After It Fell To ISIS
It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul's Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had become since it was liberated in 2017.
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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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Techie Gets Life Sentence For Plotting Attack At American School In Mumbai
Cops said he was supporting terror group ISIS and his FB chats showed he wanted to carry out an attack on the American School
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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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Terrorist Who Planned ISIS-Style Killings In Kolkata Gets Life Sentence
A special NIA court in Kolkata on Friday sentenced Mohd Mosiuddin alias Musa, accused of plotting Islamic State-style chilling execution of foreigners, to life imprisonment.
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Congress Backs "Triple Talaq", Salman Khurshid Strikes Discordant Note
The Congress today said it supports the "triple talaq" bill introduced in the Lok Sabha but wants it to be strengthened to safeguard the rights of divorced Muslim women so they live a life of dignity with adequate subsistence allowance. "Triple talaq" is the Islamic practice of men divorcing their wives by stating "talaq" (divo...
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It's Nearly Impossible To Stop Terrorists From Using Trucks As Weapons. Here's What Cities Are Trying.
Nice, Berlin, London and now Stockholm. Over the past year, terrorist attacks using vehicles have become a sad fact of life in Europe. Such attacks are obviously appealing to would-be mass murderers: In most European nations, a truck is far easier to acquire than a firearm or explosives, and sometimes even deadlier. Groups such as the Islamic State...
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The Double Life Of A 'Spy' Beheaded By ISIS
In the video, a man in an orange jump suit kneels beside a lake in Syria and confesses in Russian to spying on ISIS militants. Another Russian speaker, this one in camouflage fatigues, then uses a hunting knife to hack off the kneeling man's head.
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This Strange Story About ISIS Using Birds As Suicide Bombers Shows How Life Can Imitate Art
According to the news site Vocativ, which mines social media for its scoops, an online sympathizer of the Islamic State proposed a somewhat bizarre new tactic for the militant group over the weekend. Using the messaging app Telegram, this apparent Islamic State loyalist uploaded what Vocativ deemed a "comprehensive plan" to target coalition aircraf...
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In Conservative Pakistani City, a 'Saudi Girl' Who Stood Out
Tashfeen Malik, a suspect in the California attacks, studied at a Pakistani university but spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia. The timing and circumstances of her shift into militancy, however, remain a mystery.
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Life Returns to Syrian Town After ISIS Ousted
Outside her home in a town of northeast Syria, four-year-old Baydaa scribbles on a leaflet of religious rules left behind by the ISIS as they fled earlier this month.
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Key Events in Life of Paris Attacks' Alleged Mastermind
The alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was reported by French authorities on Thursday to have been killed the previous day during a police siege in the Paris suburb of St Denis. He was born in Belgium to a Moroccan-born immigrant shopkeeper who lives and owns a clothing store in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean borough of Brussels...
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Paris Plans Defiant Night of Food, Drink and Cafe Life
Parisians rallied for a night of the eating and drinking they are famous for on Tuesday, in defiance of the Islamist militants who gunned down Friday night revellers last week.
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In an Islamic State Prison, He Had No Hope. But Then He Heard the Drones.
Two prisoners held in the facility described life in an Islamic State prison and the mission that set them free. The operation, which a Kurdish commando also detailed, freed 69 detainees and was the first confirmed time that U.S. troops had directly accompanied Iraqi forces on the battlefield in the fight against the Islamic State.
