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Kidnapped Journalist Had Been Warned Of Threats, US, Iraq Officials Say
Shelly Renee Kittleson had sought to enter Iraq from Syria on March 9 but was turned back because she did not have a press work permit.
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How Sectarian Violence Drove Syria's Druze From Unity To Uprising
Clashes broke out last week that were sparked by tit-for-tat kidnappings between armed Bedouin clans and fighters with the Druze religious minority. The violence killed hundreds of people and threatened to unravel Syria's fragile postwar transition.
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Rima Hassan: French-Palestinian MP On Gaza-Bound Ship Intercepted By Israel
Born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria in 1992, Rima Hassan grew up without official nationality until she became a French citizen in 2010 at age 18.
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The Kidnapped Yazidi Children Who Don't Want To Be Rescued From ISIS
Accounts of the wrenching scene, given by both Rasho and the girls, point to a new challenge confronting members of the Yazidi community as they try to trace nearly 3,000 Yazidis who remain unaccounted for after the territorial defeat of the terrorists.
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New Zealand Nurse Kidnapped By ISIS May Be Alive, Says Red Cross
A New Zealand nurse believed abducted with two drivers by ISIS terrorists in Syria in 2013 may still be alive, the International Committee of the Red Cross has revealed for the first time in an appeal for news of her whereabouts.
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Salvation Government Helps Argentinian Woman Leave Syria After Two Years
A 54-year-old Argentinian woman who was lured into war-wracked Syria two years ago on a marriage promise was finally on her way home on Saturday, a Syrian rebel official said. History teacher Nancy Roxana Papa had accepted the invitation of a Syrian man she had met online three years earlier and travelled to Turkey in 2016, before entering Syria.
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"Return My Husband Safe", Says Wife Of Japanese Journalist Held In Syria
The wife of a Japanese journalist kidnapped in Syria more than three years ago broke her silence Tuesday to plead for his release after he appeared in a hostage video.
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Actors Dressed As ISIS Militants Stormed Mall To Promote Film. Didn't End Well
The plan was to harmlessly promote "Damascus Time," a new film about an Iranian father and son who travel to Syria to deliver humanitarian supplies and then get kidnapped by the Islamic State. Actors dressed as Islamic State fighters would show up at a large shopping mall and cinema in Tehran on Monday night and jovially pose for photos with passer...
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Two British ISIS 'Beatles' Fighters Captured In Syria: US Official
Two British ISIS fighters who were part of a notorious kidnapping cell dubbed "The Beatles" for their British accents have been captured in Syria, a US defense official confirmed Thursday.
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The ISIS's 'Business Model' Is Failing, Study Says
When the Islamic State advanced in Syria and Iraq in 2014, its fighters looted banks, took over oil fields and kidnapped foreigners, seemingly without facing much resistance. But fortunes have changed, and the caliphate is now in deep financial trouble, according to a new study.
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Kidnapped Journalist Had Been Warned Of Threats, US, Iraq Officials Say
Shelly Renee Kittleson had sought to enter Iraq from Syria on March 9 but was turned back because she did not have a press work permit.
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How Sectarian Violence Drove Syria's Druze From Unity To Uprising
Clashes broke out last week that were sparked by tit-for-tat kidnappings between armed Bedouin clans and fighters with the Druze religious minority. The violence killed hundreds of people and threatened to unravel Syria's fragile postwar transition.
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Rima Hassan: French-Palestinian MP On Gaza-Bound Ship Intercepted By Israel
Born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria in 1992, Rima Hassan grew up without official nationality until she became a French citizen in 2010 at age 18.
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The Kidnapped Yazidi Children Who Don't Want To Be Rescued From ISIS
Accounts of the wrenching scene, given by both Rasho and the girls, point to a new challenge confronting members of the Yazidi community as they try to trace nearly 3,000 Yazidis who remain unaccounted for after the territorial defeat of the terrorists.
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New Zealand Nurse Kidnapped By ISIS May Be Alive, Says Red Cross
A New Zealand nurse believed abducted with two drivers by ISIS terrorists in Syria in 2013 may still be alive, the International Committee of the Red Cross has revealed for the first time in an appeal for news of her whereabouts.
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Salvation Government Helps Argentinian Woman Leave Syria After Two Years
A 54-year-old Argentinian woman who was lured into war-wracked Syria two years ago on a marriage promise was finally on her way home on Saturday, a Syrian rebel official said. History teacher Nancy Roxana Papa had accepted the invitation of a Syrian man she had met online three years earlier and travelled to Turkey in 2016, before entering Syria.
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"Return My Husband Safe", Says Wife Of Japanese Journalist Held In Syria
The wife of a Japanese journalist kidnapped in Syria more than three years ago broke her silence Tuesday to plead for his release after he appeared in a hostage video.
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Actors Dressed As ISIS Militants Stormed Mall To Promote Film. Didn't End Well
The plan was to harmlessly promote "Damascus Time," a new film about an Iranian father and son who travel to Syria to deliver humanitarian supplies and then get kidnapped by the Islamic State. Actors dressed as Islamic State fighters would show up at a large shopping mall and cinema in Tehran on Monday night and jovially pose for photos with passer...
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Two British ISIS 'Beatles' Fighters Captured In Syria: US Official
Two British ISIS fighters who were part of a notorious kidnapping cell dubbed "The Beatles" for their British accents have been captured in Syria, a US defense official confirmed Thursday.
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The ISIS's 'Business Model' Is Failing, Study Says
When the Islamic State advanced in Syria and Iraq in 2014, its fighters looted banks, took over oil fields and kidnapped foreigners, seemingly without facing much resistance. But fortunes have changed, and the caliphate is now in deep financial trouble, according to a new study.
