ISIS

7 U.S. troops hurt in Iraq raid targeting Islamic State group militants that killed 15

8:45am August 31, 2024

The U.S. military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants that killed at least 15 people and saw seven U.S. troops hurt, officials said.

The Pentagon is reinvestigating if troops killed civilians in its 2019 Baghdadi raid

5:00am August 07, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

A prior investigation rejected claims that civilians were killed and wounded in the raid targeting ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Pentagon says it's reinvestigating after an NPR report.

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مقداد مع الآلة الموسيقية التي اخترعها وأطلق عليها اسم «أدد».

صنع الموسيقى من الخراب: موسيقي عراقي يصنع آلته من أنقاض الحرب

5:08am April 16, 2024

يتحدث الموسيقار والملحن أمين مقداد عن ألبومه «المنعطف» الذي ألّفه أثناء إقامته تحت احتلال داعش في الموصل بالعراق.

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Mokdad with the instrument he invented, named "Adad."

ISIS destroyed his instruments. He made a new one from scraps and composed an album

5:00am April 16, 2024

Musician and composer Ameen Mokdad opens up about his album The Curve, which he composed while living under ISIS occupation in Mosul, Iraq.

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A woman mourns at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall on Saturday, a day after a gun attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, killed at least 133 people.

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Death toll from Moscow concert hall attack rises to 133 as Putin addresses the nation

9:27pm March 23, 2024

by Rebecca Rosman

The Russian president described the violent shooting as "a bloody, barbaric terrorist act" after a group linked to the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the event.

صورة للشاحنة التي أصابتها الغارات الأمريكية بتاريخ 27 أكتوبر 2019 ٬اليوم التالي لعملية البغدادي. صور الشاحنة أثارت التساؤلات حول هوية المُستهدفين.

وثائق أمريكية تكشف عيوب في إدعاءات البنتاغون عن ضحايا عملية البغدادي

3:57pm July 21, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

قالت وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية إن القوات الأمريكية لم تؤذي المدنيين خلال عملية البغدادي عام 2019 ، لكن الإذاعة الوطنية العامة NPR تكشف عن تفاصيل جديدة تناقض هذه الادعاءات.

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This photo, taken Oct. 27, 2019, the day after the raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's compound in Syria, shows the van that was targeted by U.S. airstrikes. Photos of the van prompted questions about who was targeted.

Pentagon files reveal flaws in U.S. claims about Syrian casualties in Baghdadi raid

3:07pm July 21, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

The U.S. Defense Department said troops spared civilians during a celebrated 2019 raid against the leader of ISIS, but NPR has uncovered new details that challenge the U.S. claims.

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El Shafee Elsheikh has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of four U.S. hostages captured by the Islamic State.

An Islamic State member is sentenced to life in prison in the deaths of hostages

4:20pm August 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

El Shafee Elsheikh, part of a group known as the "ISIS Beatles," is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State to be convicted in the U.S,, prosecutors said.

A photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office in January 2022 shows Allison Fluke-Ekren. Fluke-Ekren, 42, who once lived in Kansas, has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all

A U.S. woman pleads guilty to leading an all-female ISIS battalion

9:55am June 08, 2022

by Shauneen Miranda

Allison Fluke-Ekren admitted to operating an all-female ISIS military group and training women and girls on how to use explosive devices.

A jury convicted a British national El Shafee Elsheikh for his role in an Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago.

A member of Islamic State group known as 'Beatles' is convicted in Americans' deaths

2:53pm April 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

A jury convicted a British national for his role in hostage-takings that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, three of whom were beheaded.