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Henrik Olin, Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the National Unit for Security Cases, and Reena Devgun, Senior Prosecutor at the National Unit against International and Organized Crime, announcing indictment of Swedish man Osama Krayem, for gross war crimes and terrorism in Syria, on 27 May 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. (TT News Agency/Jonas Ekstromer/via REUTERS)
May 28, 2025, 12:33 pm
Sweden charges jihadist over Jordanian pilot burnt to death in Syria
Osama Krayem, already jailed for Paris and Brussels attacks, accused of taking part in Islamic State’s gruesome 2015 murder of Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage
By AFP
Children gather outside their tents, at al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group, in Hasakeh province, Syria, May 1, 2021 (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
June 21, 2022, 3:27 pm
Belgium takes back Islamic State mothers and children from Syria
Six women have each been sentenced to five years in prison for their ties to jihadist terror group; 16 youngsters to be handed over to youth protection services
By Agencies
Illustrative photo of a member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces removing an Islamic State flag in the town of Tabqa in Syria. (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)
June 14, 2022, 1:15 pm
Germany, Switzerland arrest four suspected IS sympathizers in cross-border operation
German intelligence services estimate more than 1,150 people traveled from Germany to Iraq and Syria since 2011 for Islamist reasons
By AFP
This undated photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office in January 2022 shows Allison Fluke-Ekren. Fluke-Ekren, 42, who once lived in Kansas, has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all-female battalion of AK-47 wielding militants. The U.S. Attorney in Alexandria announced Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, that she has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP)
January 31, 2022, 6:42 am
US woman charged with leading all-female Islamic State battalion
Prosecutors say Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, even trained children to use AK-47 rifles, wanted to recruit operatives to attack a college campus in the US
By Matthew Barakat
A foreign national married to an Islamic State member walks with their son at Camp Roj in north Syria, March 27, 2019. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)
October 7, 2021, 11:08 am
Germany repatriates IS women and children, but mothers will be held to account
Eight women and 23 kids with ties to Islamic State group brought back from camp in Syria; Denmark also brings home others in operation with US military support
By Agencies
Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed 'The Beatles,' during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
November 30, 2020, 10:35 am
A long and winding road to US terror charges against Islamic State ‘Beatles’
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh stand accused of belonging to a cell blamed for the jailing, torture and murder of Western hostages in Syria
By Eric Tucker
Leader of Norway's populist Progress party Siv Jensen addresses the media in Oslo, Norway on January 20, 2020. (Fredrik Varfjell / NTB Scanpix / AFP)
January 20, 2020, 7:52 pm
Norway populist party quits government over return of jihadist’s spouse
Progress Party rejects repatriation on humanitarian grounds of woman who was married to Islamic State fighter; PM loses majority but remains in power
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Illustrative: Turkish police and army cars escort vans and buses returning from Syria, reportedly carrying Islamic State group members and their families, at the border town of Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, October 18, 2019. (Emrah Gurel/AP)
December 9, 2019, 6:54 pm
Turkey deports 11 French suspected Islamic State members
French Foreign Ministry declines to offer details on returning ‘terrorist fighters’
By AP
Illustrative: Russian women, who have been sentenced to life in prison on grounds of joining the Islamic State terror group, standing with their children in a hallway, in Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, on April 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ammar Karim)
November 7, 2019, 2:58 pm
Moscow warns of threat from 2,000 relatives of Russian IS fighters
FSB security service cautions returnees ‘quite often adhere to extremist religious ideology’
By AFP
An Islamic State flag lies in a tent encampment after US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters took control of Baghouz, Syria, on March 23, 2019. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
October 11, 2019, 6:43 am
Pressure mounts to repatriate and try IS foreign fighters
US forces said planning to assume control of several dozen captured fighters from Kurds to prevent their escape during Turkish assault
By Paul Handley
A Kurdish security officer, right, escorts Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, center, allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," at a security center in Kobani, Syria, Friday, March 30, 2018. “The Beatles” terror cell is believed to have captured, tortured and killed hostages including American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 10, 2019, 4:36 am
US moves 2 British Islamic State members known as ‘Beatles’ from Syria
Two notorious terrorists, believed to be part of group that beheaded hostages, taken out of Syria amid fears they could escape as Turkey invades
By AP
A picture taken on March 23, 2019, shows a fighter of the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) flashing the V for victory sign in the fallen Islamic State group's last bastion in the eastern Syrian village of Baghuz after defeating the jihadist group. (GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)
March 24, 2019, 12:25 pm
Syria Kurds urge world to take back, reintegrate children of foreign IS jihadis
After announcing defeat of terror group, top Kurdish official says thousands of fighters are ‘a danger for us and for the international community’
By AFP
Screen capture from video of an interview with Shamima Begum, right, a British teen who joined the Islamic State. Her newborn baby is held by a woman, left, during the interview from Syria, February 2019. (YouTube)
March 9, 2019, 12:58 am
Baby of British IS bride Shamima Begum dies in Syrian refugee camp
19-year-old Begum had said she wanted to raise her son in the UK, but the government has revoked her citizenship
By AP
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard next to men waiting to be screened after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, near Baghouz, eastern Syria, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. (AP/Felipe Dana)
February 23, 2019, 11:11 am
Told to leave, IS ‘caliphate’ holdouts in Syria stay devoted
Hundreds, if not thousands, remain holed up in Baghouz — the last redoubt of the self-proclaimed Islamic State that leaders once said would stretch to Rome
By Sarah El Deeb
Screen capture from video of an interview with Shamima Begum, right, a British teen who joined the Islamic State. Her newborn baby is held by a woman, left, during the interview from Syria, February 2019. (YouTube)
February 21, 2019, 5:09 am
Britain and Bangladesh wash their hands of Islamic State teen mother
Shamima Begum traveled to Syria in 2015 aged just 15, but after giving birth in a refugee camp last weekend, she wants to come home
By Alice Ritchie
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