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ISIS Beheads Archaeology Pioneer

Khaled al-Asaad beheaded in Palmyra, where he worked for 50 years

(Newser) - A tragic blow to the archaeology community: Islamic State militants have beheaded one of Syria's most prominent antiquities scholars in a square in the seized city of Palmyra, where dozens of people gathered to watch, Syrian state media and a British activist group report, via the AP . The body...

How ISIS Entices Teenage Girls From the West

'New York Times' report: It's a 'twisted form of feminism'

(Newser) - The New York Times is out with another investigation into the ways of the Islamic State, this one on how it manages to entice bright young women from the West to pack up and head to Syria. By one estimate, more than 500 Western women have done so. Focusing on...

US Hostage Gave Up Chance to Escape to Help Girls

Kayla Mueller 'was like a mother figure to them'

(Newser) - Despite being sexually abused by the leader of ISIS over a period of 18 months, US hostage Kayla Mueller is said to have turned down a opportunity to escape in order to give two young girls a better chance to survive, the Independent reports. A 14-year-old Yazidi girl who was...

ISIS Leader Raped American Hostage
ISIS Leader Raped
American Hostage
Aug 14, 2015 3:32 PM CDT

ISIS Leader Raped American Hostage

Parents of late Kayla Mueller say she was tortured

(Newser) - Awful reports are emerging today about the late American hostage Kayla Mueller on what would have been her 27th birthday. The Independent reports that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raped her multiple times while she was in captivity. The story is based on the account of a teenage Yazidi...

US Fears ISIS Is Using Saddam's Old Weapons

Chemical agent used against Kurdish forces

(Newser) - Gassing Iraqi Kurds was considered one of Saddam Hussein's most heinous crimes, and American officials now suspect that ISIS is doing the exact same thing—and it may be using Saddam's old weapons. Officials believe the militants used mustard gas, a chemical weapon banned worldwide in 1993, against...

How ISIS Justifies the Rape of 12-Year-Old Girls

The NYT looks at their systematic use of rape

(Newser) - It's tough to read beyond the first three paragraphs of the New York Times' look at ISIS' systematic use of rape and the religious justification it assigns to the practice. The story opens with the story of a fighter prostrating himself in prayer before and after raping a bound...

ISIS Reportedly Shows Body of Beheaded Hostage

Tomislav Salopek was reported kidnapped July 22

(Newser) - An online image circulated today purports to show a Croatian hostage held by the Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate beheaded. The still image, shared by ISIS sympathizers on social media, showed the apparent body of Tomislav Salopek, a married, 30-year-old father of two, wearing a beige jumpsuit looking like the...

This Miss. Honor Student Allegedly Tried to Join ISIS

Jaelyn Delshaun Young was arrested at Golden Triangle airport with 22-year-old

(Newser) - Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 19, graduated from her Mississippi high school in 2013 with honors; Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla, 22, graduated from Mississippi State University in May with a degree in psychology. Today the two are in court, having been arrested on Saturday on charges that they were trying to travel to...

Unlikely Victim of Online Scam: ISIS

3 Chechen women allegedly bilked terrorists out of $3.3K

(Newser) - Remember the one about your very, very distant relative who died in Nigeria, leaving you millions in unclaimed riches? Apparently ISIS hasn't. As the AP reports, three women in Chechnya are the subject of a police investigation for allegedly pulling a fast one on the terrorist group. A...

NATO Holds 5th-Ever Emergency Meeting

Turkey requests rare meeting on ISIS threat

(Newser) - For just the fifth time in its 66-year history, NATO ambassadors will meet in an emergency session today to gauge the threat ISIS poses to Turkey and the debated actions Turkish authorities are taking in response. The extraordinary meeting at NATO headquarters was requested by Turkey under Article 4 of...

US, Turkey Plan to Wipe ISIS From 68-Mile Zone

Syrian rebels will reportedly assist from the ground

(Newser) - Turkey's nascent fight against ISIS appears to be rapidly intensifying. The country has settled on the broad strokes of a plan with the US that would see the two countries come together to create an ISIS-free zone, with the US supplying warplanes and Turkey contributing troops who wouldn't...

Turkey Is Now Fighting ISIS
 Turkey Is Now Fighting ISIS 
Jul 24, 2015 4:22 AM CDT

Turkey Is Now Fighting ISIS

US finally allowed to use key airbase

(Newser) - Turkish warplanes struck ISIS targets across the border in Syria today, government officials say, a day after militants fired at a Turkish military outpost, killing a soldier. The bombing is a strong tactical shift for Turkey, which had long been reluctant to join the US-led coalition against the extremist group....

UK Says One of Its Own Plotted Attack on Americans

Junead Khan has been arrested

(Newser) - "We have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to charge Junead Khan and Shazib Khan with the intention of committing acts of terrorism." That from Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, which today alleged Junead was plotting an attack on US military...

Turkey Vows Revenge After Apparent ISIS Bombing

Militants blamed for attack that killed 31

(Newser) - Authorities suspect ISIS was behind an apparent suicide bombing that killed 31 people in southeastern Turkey yesterday and wounded nearly 100—a development that could represent a major expansion by the extremists at a time when the government is stepping up efforts against them. Turkish officials vowed to strike back...

ISIS' New Trainees: Kids Beheading Dolls

Islamic State indoctrinating young boys to its horrors

(Newser) - The children were each given a doll and a sword. Then they were lined up, more than 120 of them, and given their next lesson by their ISIS instructors: Behead the doll. A 14-year-old among the boys from Iraq's Yazidi minority said at first he couldn't cut it—...

Saudis Arrest 400 in Anti-Terror Sweep

Announcement comes day after devastating ISIS bomb in Iraq

(Newser) - Saudi Arabia announced today it has broken up planned Islamic State attacks in the kingdom and arrested more than 400 suspects in an anti-terrorism sweep. The Saudi Interior Ministry accused those arrested over the past few weeks of involvement in several attacks, including a suicide bombing in May that killed...

ISIS Has Used a Troubling Weapon

Chemical mortar shell is found

(Newser) - ISIS appears to be learning how to make—and use—chemical projectiles. The allegation isn't based on just anecdotal evidence: Authorities got their hands on an unexploded shell fired by Islamic State militants in Iraq last month, reports the New York Times . The device was crude, hence the failure...

Massive Car Bomb Kills 100 at Iraq Market

ISIS claims responsibility for 3-ton blast

(Newser) - A suicide bomber struck at an Iraqi market today, but seldom have such attacks been so deadly: Reuters puts the death toll at more than 100 and reports that the Islamic State claimed responsibility, boasting that the vehicle used in the blast had 3 tons of explosives. The explosion brought...

Boston Police Captain's Son Accused of ISIS Plot

FBI says Alexander Ciccolo planned to massacre students

(Newser) - The son of a Boston police captain has been accused of plotting to detonate pressure-cooker bombs at an unidentified university and to broadcast the executions of students live online—terrorist acts aimed at supporting ISIS, authorities say. Alexander Ciccolo's father alerted authorities last fall that his son had a...

US Drone Strike Killed Afghan ISIS Leader: Report

Shahidullah Shahid used to be a Taliban spokesman until they kicked him out

(Newser) - A senior ISIS leader in Afghanistan was killed in a US drone strike Tuesday in the Nangarhar province, an Afghan news channel reports, per USA Today . "It was confirmed today that a senior leader of (ISIS) for Khorasan region, Shahidullah Shahid, has been killed in a drone strike,"...

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