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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Islamic State hostages

Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces man a checkpoint in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
January 25, 2022, 7:06 pm
Syrian Kurdish forces say they have freed hostages in Islamic State prison attack
Injured Australian teen inside Gweiran prison in northeastern Syria describes non-stop shooting, says many children killed; Kurds say 550 inmates have surrendered
By Sarah El Deeb
Steven Sotloff next to his Islamic State captor, 'Jihadi John,' in a video released September 2, 2014. (Screen capture: SITE/Twitter)
October 2, 2021, 11:45 pm
US charges jihadist behind IS propaganda clips, including journalist beheadings
Canadian Mohammed Khalifa narrated videos as part of cell that filmed murders of James Foley and American-Israeli Steven Sotloff
By AFP and ToI Staff
An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State (IS) and identified by private terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence Group on September 2, 2014 purportedly shows a masked militant holding a knife and gesturing as he speaks to the camera in a desert landscape before beheading 31-year-old US freelance writer Steven Sotloff. (AFP PHOTO/SITE Intelligence Group/HO)
September 6, 2021, 3:45 am
Report: UK missed 14 chances to stop jihadi ‘Beatles’ before they joined IS
Court papers in trial of two cell members show authorities detained them on multiple occasions due to their radical activities, but released them every time
By ToI Staff and Agencies
File - A Kurdish security officer escorts Alexanda Kotey, one of the Islamic State 'Beatles,' at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. (AP/Hussein Malla)
September 3, 2021, 4:08 am
Islamic State ‘Beatle’ pleads guilty over grisly hostage murders
UK-born Alexanda Kotey admits to involvement in scheme to kidnap and torture Westerners, including Israeli-American Steven Sotloff, among four beheaded by group
By Agencies
Alexanda Amon Kotey, allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
September 1, 2021, 8:22 am
Member of ‘Beatles’ IS cell set to plead guilty in US court on Syria beheadings
Court documents show British citizen Alexanda Amon Kotey, whose cell murdered US-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff and others, has a scheduled change of plea hearing
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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
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," at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 10, 2020, 3:36 am
British men accused of helping behead Islamic State hostages plead not guilty
2 suspects, allegedly part of brutal Jihadi cell dubbed ‘The Beatles,’ are on trial in US for helping terror group carry out killings, hostage negotiations
By Matthew Barakat
File - Slain US journalists James Foley, left, and Steven Sotloff, right. Both were executed by the Islamic State jihadist group two weeks apart in late August and September 2014.
October 8, 2020, 5:45 am
Journalists and aid workers: US hostages killed by Islamic State
Two IS terrorists go on trial for the killing of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller
By AFP
In this March 30, 2019, file photo, 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," speak during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
October 8, 2020, 4:16 am
Islamic State ‘Beatles’ charged in gruesome killings of American, other hostages
British-born suspects appear in US court to face charges over campaign of torture, beheadings of victims in Syria including American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff
By Eric Tucker and Matthew Barakat
Ashwaq Haji Hamid was 14 years old when she became one of thousands of Yazidi women forced into sexual slavery by members of Islamic State. (Screengrab)
December 1, 2019, 4:33 pm
Former Yazidi sex slave faints while confronting her IS rapist on Iraqi TV
Ashwaq Haji Hamid was 14 when the terror group seized her hometown, killing the males and abducting the girls
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, civilians gather near the Red Cross vehicles for evacuation from eastern Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. (SANA via AP)
April 15, 2019, 4:50 am
Red Cross reveals New Zealand nurse, two drivers captured by IS 5 years ago
ICRC says news kept secret to protect them, now making public appeal after receiving information Louisa Akavi may still be alive
By AFP
Red Cross nurse Louisa Akavi who was abducted by the Islamic State group more than five years ago (Courtesy/ICRC)
April 15, 2019, 4:21 am
New Zealand special forces in Syria search for nurse held hostage by IS
Red Cross reveals nurse Louisa Akavi and two Syrian drivers abducted by the Islamic State group more than five years ago, may still be alive
By AFP
Yazidi Iraqi women queue in order to get food at the Bajid Kandala camp near the Tigris River, in Kurdistan's western Dohuk province, where they took refuge after fleeing advances by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq on August 13, 2014. Photo credit:AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
April 13, 2019, 3:00 pm
Syria Kurds return 25 Yazidis freed from IS to Iraq
US-backed fighters say they rescued some 300 Yazidi women and children during the fight to take the jihadists’ last scrap of territory in eastern Syria
By AFP
In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 file photo, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters watch as an airstrike hits territory still held by Islamic State in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
March 2, 2019, 12:37 pm
US-backed fighters advance against Islamic State in its last Syrian territory
Syrian Democratic Forces report heavy clashes in area of Baghouz, on the east bank of the Euphrates River; aid group says over 10,000 civilians evacuated since February 20
By AP
A picture released on June 1, 2014, shows the 29-year-old suspected gunman in the Brussels Jewish Museum attack, French-Algerian Mehdi Nemmouche. (AFP)
January 7, 2019, 8:30 am
Brussels Jewish museum terrorist radicalized in prison, admired Toulouse shooter
Mehdi Nemmouche was on a path to terrorism long before he set off in early 2013 for Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’ on the Euphrates
By Matthieu Demeestere
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