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France Won't Take ISIS Fighters Back, But Doesn't Want Them Executed Either

5:18pm May 27, 2019

by Jane Arraf

France doesn't want to bring back French ISIS members captured in Iraq, but French authorities are dismayed that an Iraqi court has sentenced four of them to death.

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Women sit on the floor as they wait in a clinic at the al-Hol detention camp.

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Misery Grows At Syrian Camp Holding ISIS Family Members

5:30pm May 26, 2019

by Jane Arraf

In recent visits to the camp, NPR was told of babies dying of malnutrition, and found women collapsed by roadsides. "There's a lack of supplies and the numbers of patients are huge," a doctor says.

Bindu Sampath, 52, shows photos of her daughter Nimisha Sampath, now 29, who left India three years ago, after converting to Islam. She and her husband, a fellow Muslim convert, are wanted by Indian authorities for allegedly joining ISIS. They're believed

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'God, Please Help Her': Indian Parents Agonize Over Radicalization Of Their Children

8:37am May 26, 2019

by Lauren Frayer

ISIS has radicalized people around the world. But even with one of the world's largest Muslim populations, India has had very few cases of radicalization — until recently. Most cases are in the south.

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Ibrahim, 2, in northeastern Syria a few hours after his freed Yazidi mother returned to Iraq without him. Ibrahim's father was an ISIS fighter. Although his mother wanted to take him home, the Yazidis do not allow children of ISIS fathers to live with the

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Freed By ISIS, Yazidi Mothers Face Wrenching Choice: Abandon Kids Or Never Go Home

9:35pm May 09, 2019

by Jane Arraf

Women kidnapped by ISIS five years ago are now being freed. But the Yazidi community does not allow children born in captivity of militant fathers to return with them.

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This image made from video posted on a militant website on April 29 purports to show ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet.

Opinion: Here's Why ISIS And Al-Qaida Will Lose Their War Of Attrition

8:27pm May 03, 2019

by Aki Peritz

"America sees this as an existential fight," writes former CIA analyst Aki Peritz, who argues in this case, the classic insurgent strategy of bleeding a better-resourced adversary is doomed to fail.

Customers walk near makeshift fruit and vegetable shops set in front of destroyed buildings in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa earlier this month.

'Indiscriminate Strikes': Amnesty Criticizes U.S.-Led Coalition's Actions In Raqqa

4:56pm April 26, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

Amnesty International says the U.S.-led coalition offensive against ISIS in Raqqa used indiscriminate artillery force and killed nearly 10 times more civilians than the U.S. military has acknowledged.

Women carry children near the al-Hol camp in Syria's Kurdish-majority region of Rojava. The camp is filled with more than 72,000 people — most of them women and children who came out of the last ISIS-held territory.

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'We Pray For The Caliphate To Return': ISIS Families Crowd Into Syrian Camps

4:43pm April 24, 2019

by Jane Arraf

"The women and children who have been raised on the mentality of ISIS and terrorism need to be rehabilitated," an official warns. "Otherwise, they will be the foundations of future terrorism."

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New Zealand nurse Louisa Akavi, pictured here in an undated photo, was captured in Syria in 2013. Her name was kept secret until Sunday.

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Red Cross Releases Name Of Nurse Taken Hostage; New Zealand Fears For Her Safety

12:26pm April 16, 2019

by Francesca Paris

For years, New Zealand's government and international media worked to keep Louisa Akavi's name secret. Now the Red Cross hopes that releasing it will lead to information on her whereabouts.

U.S.-backed fighters stand guard on a building during shelling of the Islamic State's last holdout in the town of Baghouz, Syria, on March 3.

Analysis: The End Of The 'Caliphate' Doesn't Mean The End Of ISIS

3:45pm March 22, 2019

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Friday that ISIS' territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria. Even so, its threats remain.

Mazen (right), 13, and his brother Mezban in a camp for displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Mazen was freed recently, five years after being kidnapped by ISIS. He was found in Baghouz, the last ISIS stronghold in Syria. His brother was also

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Freed From ISIS, Few Yazidis Return To Suffering Families, Many Remain Missing

9:59pm March 14, 2019

by Jane Arraf

As ISIS loses territory and captives are rescued, broken Yazidi families hold out hope that their loved ones could still return.

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