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Paris (AFP) - The mother of a journalist executed by the Islamic State group has sharply criticised the hostage policy of former US president Barack Obama in a new book. "American Mother" tells the story of James Foley, a freelancer who was abducted and later beheaded by the extremist group in 2012 while reporting on the Syrian civil war. Due for release in Britain in February and in the United States in March, it was written by his mother, Diane Foley, and the Irish writer Colum McCann. The video of Foley's execution served as propaganda for the self-proclaimed "caliphate" established by IS i...
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Washington (AFP) - A Canadian jihadist said to be a key player in the Islamic State group's propaganda production and who narrated multiple violent videos was sentenced Friday to life in prison, the US Department of Justice said. Mohammed Khalifa, who was born in Saudi Arabia, pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to provide material support to IS resulting in death. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, he left Canada in 2013 to join the IS group in Syria, where he quickly took on a leading role in the self-proclaimed "caliphate" that straddled that country and Iraq. Kha...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United Nations Security Council votes Thursday on extending its authorization of aid transfers across Syria's border without approval from Damascus, with Russia seeking a six-month prolongation while Western nations want a full year. The UN resolution permitting aid deliveries across the Syrian-Turkish border at Bab al-Hawa has been in effect since 2014, but is set to expire on Sunday. Norway and Ireland, two non-permanent members of the 15-country Security Council, have drafted a resolution that would extend the authorization until July 10, 2023. Nea...
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Washington (AFP) - The US military could have done more to limit civilian casualties and damage during the battle for the Syrian city of Raqqa that marked the Islamic State's fall in 2017, according to a report commissioned by the Pentagon. At the end of the nearly five-month battle to free the city from IS, "60 to 80 percent" of it was "uninhabitable" and resentment of the population was directed at the liberators, said a report by the research center RAND Corporation. "Raqqa endured the most structural damage by density of any city in Syria," said the report released Thursday. "The level of...
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Washington (AFP) - A Canadian jihadist who fought for the Islamic State (IS) group and narrated violent propaganda videos pleaded guilty in a US court Friday, the Justice Department announced. Mohammed Khalifa, 38, admitted to "conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (ISIS), resulting in death," and will be sentenced on April 15, 2022, the department said in a statement, using another acronym for the jihadist group. He faces a life sentence. Khalifa, who was born in Saudi Arabia, was captured during a firefight in January 2019 by Kurdish-dominate...
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Washington (AFP) - US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller, were among Westerners taken hostage and killed by the so-called Islamic State group in Syria.Two members of an IS cell dubbed the "Beatles" were due to appear by video link in a US court on Wednesday, charged with involvement in their murders.James FoleyJames Foley was kidnapped on November 22, 2012 in northern Syria with British Sunday Times journalist John Cantlie, who is still missing.A writer and videographer, Foley, 40, covered the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime for...
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