- Country: Ireland
Ex-soldier Lisa Smith’s appeal over ISIS membership conviction dismissed
The court rejected all grounds raised by Lisa Smith and her appeal was therefore dismissed.
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- Country: United Arab Emirates
Iraqi police officer killed in ISIS attack near Kirkuk
At least one federal officer was killed when ISIS targeted an Iraqi police site near Kirkuk, the interior ministry has said, in the first reported attack since the withdrawal of the US-led coalition last week. Bakr Majid Mohammed Al Lami was killed on Monday while confronting a group of ISIS…
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- Country: United States
In Iraq, ISIS members once jailed in Syria face trial
In Iraq, NPR attends trials of French ISIS suspects after transfer from Syrian camps.
- Country: United Arab Emirates
'I was deceived': French ISIS recruit on trial in Iraq says he regrets joining group
A French man admitted on Monday in a court in Iraq to joining ISIS after claiming that he was lured on social media into helping Muslims in Syria during its gruelling civil war. He pleaded for mercy. Mehdi Ismail Mohammed, 33, is one of 11 French citizens of Algerian and Tunisian origin brought…
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- Country: France
ISIS suspects face 'outsourced' justice in Iraq as HRW warns of 'collective global detention crisis'
Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Letta Tayler, Senior Counterterrorism Advisor at Human Rights Watch. She warns of the detention of suspected Islamic State members transferred from northeast Syria to Iraq as part of a much wider "global detention crisis". The men and boys now held in Iraq are…
- Country: United States
30,000 ancient treasures saved from ISIS in daring archaeological rescue
A study by professor and author Maamoun Abdulkarim reveals how archaeologists rescued 30,000 priceless artifacts from a Syria museum before ISIS captured the city.