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Alexandria (United States) (AFP) - The mother of slain US relief worker Kayla Mueller testified Tuesday at the trial of one of her daughter's alleged Islamic State captors, recounting the desperate pleas for her release and tortuous negotiations.

Isis captors ignored repeated pleas from Kayla Mueller’s parents to release her

For many Jewish leaders, the hostage standoff in a Texas synagogue was all too familiar

A White House spokeswoman says an armed British man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended in his death entered the United States without raising any red flags during multiple checks against law enforcement databases

An armed man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue had spent time in area homeless shelters in the two weeks leading up to the attack, and was dropped off at one by someone he appeared to know

FORT WORTH, Texas — The hostage standoff inside a Colleyville synagogue Saturday reignited fears of antisemitic violence with news headlines that circled the globe. But for many Jewish Americans, the threat of such an attack — even at a small-town synagogue in North Texas — is something they live with…

Siddiqui’s attorney denies the Pakistani neuroscientist had any involvement in ‘wicked’ actions

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, held four people at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

U.S. and British authorities are continuing an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead