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News Articles: ISIS

In this March 31, 2019, photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria.

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  • World

No Country Will Take Them: Alleged ISIS Widow With Kids The Latest Of Many In Limbo

The case of a woman who reportedly married ISIS fighters and is now stuck in Turkey with her young children has become the subject of a diplomatic dispute between Australia and New Zealand.

March 26, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Nofa Khudeda (left) and a neighbor in the village of Tel Qasab on the day Khudeda and her husband returned after six years in a camp for displaced Yazidis. Khudeda and her husband, Ali Edo, repaired and renovated the house, which had been looted by ISIS fighters and then militias that fought ISIS.

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  • World

With No Options, Displaced Iraqi Yazidis Return To Homes Destroyed In ISIS Fight

Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling to be home," says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived.

December 03, 2020
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Khaled Jamal Abdullah after running away from home to pledge allegiance to ISIS and join the militant group as a fighter. He had just turned 16.

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  • Middle East

Iraqi Family Identifies Their Son As ISIS Teen At Center Of Navy War Crimes Trial

The name of the young ISIS fighter was not revealed in U.S. court proceedings, and the records are sealed. NPR has identified the fighter with the help of Iraqi officials and the teenager's family.

October 30, 2020
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By:
  • Jane Arraf and
  • Sangar Khaleel
A woman walks past a wrecked van near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha. Local residents and medical staff told NPR that noncombatant civilians who were in the van were injured and killed last year the night of the U.S. raid on the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The military says the men were combatants but found no weapons.

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  • World

Pentagon Says 2 Men Killed In Baghdadi Raid Were Combatants But Offers Little Evidence

After NPR reported claims of civilian deaths in the operation against the ISIS chief, Central Command says the men showed "hostile intent," but it found no weapons or signs they fired at U.S. forces.

October 27, 2020
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Kuwait state television announced Tuesday that the country's ruler, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, pictured last year at the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Saudi Arabia, has died.

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  • Obituaries

Kuwait's Emir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Dies At 91

Sheikh Sabah spent four decades as foreign minister before becoming emir in 2006. He was known as a master diplomat who tried to mediate disputes in the volatile Gulf region.

September 29, 2020
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
A group solicits funds for weapons by asking for bitcoin, according to the Department of Justice. The Trump administration says al-Qaida and affiliated groups have used such donations to fund terrorism.

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  • Law

Department Of Justice Seizes Bitcoin, Websites From Terror Groups

The DOJ calls this "the government's largest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency in the terrorism context." It also seizes websites ISIS allegedly used to sell fake face masks during the pandemic.

August 13, 2020
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
About 200,000 displaced Yazidis are in camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many are waiting for help to rebuild homes damaged or destroyed by ISIS in 2014.

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  • Middle East

A Yazidi Survivor's Struggle Shows The Pain That Endures After ISIS Attack

Six years after ISIS committed genocide against Iraq's ancient religious minority group, the Yazidis are not getting the help they need to recover.

August 08, 2020
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  • Jane Arraf
Afghan security personnel take position on the top of a building where insurgents were hiding in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday. The day before, militants attacked a prison holding many ISIS members.

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  • Middle East

ISIS Attack On Afghan Prison Leaves At Least 29 Dead

About 1,000 prisoners who escaped during the attack were later found by Afghan security forces. The attack shattered a three-day ceasefire between Afghan forces and the Taliban.

August 03, 2020
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Susan Rice has served as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and as President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor. Now, she's author of a new autobiography called "Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For."

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  • Author Interviews

From Prejudice to Foreign Policy, Ambassador Susan Rice Faces It All With 'Tough Love'

Susan Rice has been called a lot of names. She was nicknamed "Spo" as a child, for her sporting athletic abilities. President Barack Obama labeled her...

October 21, 2019
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
A fighter of Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, Monday, July 17, 2017.

Lawrence Wright On The Growth Of Middle Eastern Terrorism From Al-Qaeda To ISIS

This week on “Two Way Street,” Lawrence Wright joined us in front of a live audience at the Atlanta History Center to discuss his new book, ” The Terror...

August 03, 2017
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By:
  • Bill Nigut

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