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    Residents inspect a damaged house after several rockets landed Saturday in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes the same day as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's meeting with Taliban leade
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    Kabul Battered By Rockets Ahead Of Pompeo's Planned Talks With Taliban

    Nov 21, 2020
    The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, which killed at least eight in the Afghan capital and came on a day when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was to discuss Afghan peace talks.
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    A man, wounded after gunmen stormed Kabul University, arrives in an ambulance at Isteqlal Hospital on Monday. At least 19 people died in the attack on Afghanistan's largest university.
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    At Least 19 People Are Killed In Attack On Kabul University

    Nov 02, 2020
    The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack by heavily armed gunmen who stormed the campus, firing on students, some of whom jumped out of windows to flee the attackers.
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    Khaled Jamal Abdullah after running away from home to pledge allegiance to ISIS and join them as a fighter. He had just turned 16.
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    Iraqi Family Identifies Their Son As ISIS Teen At Center Of Navy War Crimes Trial

    Oct 29, 2020
    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.
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    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 I
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    Pentagon Says 2 Men Killed In Baghdadi Raid Were Combatants But Offers Little Evidence

    Oct 27, 2020
    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.
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    Life After ISIS: The Struggle And Survival Of Yazidis
    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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    A Yazidi Survivor's Struggle Shows The Pain That Endures After ISIS Attack

    Aug 08, 2020
    Six years after ISIS committed genocide against Iraq's ancient religious minority group, the Yazidis are not getting the help they need to recover.
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    Family members sob for their loved ones after an attack on a Sikh place of worship Wednesday in Kabul, Afghanistan. More than two dozen people were killed in the assault, for which Islamic State militants claimed responsibility.
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    At Least 25 People Dead After Hours-Long Attack On Sikh Complex In Kabul

    Mar 25, 2020
    The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted members of the Sikh religious minority in the Afghan capital Wednesday.
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    Africa
    Nigerian soldiers are on patrol in October, after gunmen suspected of belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province group raided the village of Tungushe, killing a soldier and three residents.
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    Islamic State Group In Nigeria Reportedly Executes Christian Hostages

    Dec 27, 2019
    ISIS says the executions were in retaliation for the killings of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his spokesman earlier this year, according to Agence France-Presse.
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    Suspected Islamic State militants languish in a prison cell in northeastern Syria in October. The Pentagon has reported about 10,000 ISIS fighters are being held in prison facilities in northeastern Syria. Some 2,000 are said to be foreign fighters, with
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    Why European Countries Are Reluctant to Repatriate Citizens Who Are ISIS Fighters

    Dec 10, 2019
    Hundreds of ISIS fighters from Europe are in prison facilities in Syria. The prospect of repatriating them is deeply unpopular in much of Europe, and some countries have stripped them of citizenship.
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    The Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, as seen in 2016. Europol announced Monday that over 26,000 items related to terrorist propaganda were removed from the internet.
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    Islamic State 'Not Present On The Internet Anymore' Following European Operation

    Nov 25, 2019
    European Union authorities said they worked with popular online services - such as Google and Twitter - to remove videos, social media accounts and communication channels used by the Islamic State.
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    A new U.S. brigade combat team arrives in front of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle at a base in Syria's Hasakah province.
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    In Syria, U.S. Military Says Fight Will Continue Against ISIS

    Nov 13, 2019
    Many U.S. special operators have been ordered out of Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria, but other troops have arrived to guard oil installations. The Pentagon says the mission is still to fight ISIS.
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    The late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an undated picture released this week by the Pentagon.
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    ISIS Confirms Baghdadi's Death And Names His Successor

    Oct 31, 2019
    The Islamic State named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new leader days after ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during a U.S. raid on his compound in northwest Syria.
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    Middle East
    Iraqi youth watch the news about ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death, in Najaf, Iraq, on Sunday.
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    'We Didn't See A Body': Baghdadi's Death Draws Doubts In Lands Where ISIS Ruled

    Oct 29, 2019
    In Iraq and Syria, the ISIS leader's death has stirred a mix of responses — from joy to disbelief to dread that the militants will rise again.
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    President Trump on Monday released a photograph of the dog used in the weekend raid in Syria that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State. The dog was injured in the operation but is making a full recove
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    Dog Injured In Syrian Terrorist Raid Is Hailed As A Hero In The Mission

    Oct 28, 2019
    The world got to know the Belgian Malinois a little better on Monday when President Trump shared a declassified portrait of the dog, whose name and backstory have not been released by authorities.
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    World
    Syrian government troops on Monday moved into towns in northern Syrian formerly controlled by U.S.-backed Kurdish militants. That sets up a potential clash with Turkish forces.
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    Syrian Troops Move To Support Kurds After U.S. Withdrawal

    Oct 14, 2019
    Kurdish forces in northern Syria relied on American troops to help them maintain control of the region. Now, they are aligning themselves with Syrian forces that are backed by Russia.
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    In this photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, smoke billows from a fire inside Syria during bombardment by Turkish forces on Wednesday.
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    Civilians Flee As Turkish Forces Strike Kurds In Northern Syria

    Oct 10, 2019

    The attack that began Wednesday has uprooted civilians in the area. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insists that the Trump administration did not "green light" the incursion.

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    National Security
    President Trump's plan for the Turkish-Syrian border contradicts recommendations from top officials in the Pentagon and the State Department. In this 2017 photo, a U.S. officer from the coalition against ISIS speaks with a fighter from the Kurdish People
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    Former Trump Envoy: Syria Withdrawal Is 'Haphazard' And 'Almost Unprecedented'

    Oct 08, 2019
    "You can't make decisions on a haphazard basis after a single call with a foreign leader," says Brett McGurk, the president's former special envoy for the fight against ISIS.
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    National Security
    The inmate population at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, once stood at nearly 700 but has since dwindled to 40.
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    Trump Rules Out Sending Captured ISIS Fighters To Guantánamo Bay

    Sep 20, 2019
    Few foreign ISIS fighters captured in Syria and Iraq have been repatriated. Unless European allies accept nationals who are ISIS prisoners of war, Trump said, "we're releasing them at the border."
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    Book Reviews
    <em>They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate,</em> by James Verini
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    'They Will Have To Die Now' Is A Bare-Knuckles Account Of The Fight Against ISIS

    Sep 20, 2019
    James Verini's book will stand up with some of the best war reporting, as he takes an unblinking look at the dirtiest kind of battle — urban combat — and the human wreckage it leaves in its wake.
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    Danisch Farooqi with his daughter, Aaliya, in Hamburg, Germany, when she was around 2 years old. "I haven't seen her in five years," he says. He wonders if she has forgotten him.
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    'I Would Do Anything For Her': A German Dad's Search For His Daughter, Taken By ISIS

    Jun 16, 2019
    A German father struggles to find and bring home his young daughter, taken by his ex-wife when she went to Syria five years ago with her new husband, an ISIS fighter.
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    The skeletal remains of a mosque stand amid overgrown shrubs. Authorities say 25 mosques were destroyed in the district most affected by the five months of fighting between government forces and ISIS militants in Marawi.
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    The Philippines' Marawi City Remains Wrecked Nearly 2 Years After ISIS War

    Jun 12, 2019
    The city has a rich heritage of buildings and mosques. Today, the battle scars are as prominent as ever and residents displaced by the conflict complain about the sluggish reconstruction.
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    The People's Defense Court in the Rojava district of northeast Syria. Judges here have been holding trials of thousands of ISIS fighters. The Kurdish-led region broke from Syrian government control in 2012 and has developed its own justice system that it
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    'Revenge Is For The Weak': Kurdish Courts In Northeastern Syria Take On ISIS Cases

    May 29, 2019
    Kurdish Syrian authorities have tried 7,000 ISIS suspects in a justice system that bans torture and the death penalty. Some of the judges are women, which comes as a shock to ISIS fighters on trial.
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    France Won't Take ISIS Fighters Back, But Doesn't Want Them Executed Either

    May 27, 2019
    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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    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 believe
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    'God, Please Help Her': Indian Parents Agonize Over Radicalization Of Their Children

    May 26, 2019
    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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    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

    May 23, 2019
    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.
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    Middle East
    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 th
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    Freed By ISIS, Yazidi Mothers Face Wrenching Choice: Abandon Kids Or Never Go Home

    May 09, 2019
    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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