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Canada spy smuggled UK’s Shamima Begum into Syria: New book

Inquiry is demanded after new book suggests UK covered up Canada’s role in British teenager’s journey to join ISIL.

Al Jazeera

Shamima Begum ‘smuggled into Syria by Western spy’

Shamima Begum was smuggled into Syria by a human trafficker also working as a spy for Canada, according to explosive new claims in a book.

Evening Standard

Shamima Begum: Spy smuggled schoolgirl to Syria where she joined Isis, new book claims

Book claims Canada hired human trafficker to gain insight into recruitment of its own citizens by Isis

The Independent UK

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Shamima Begum 'smuggled into Syria by Canada spy', new book claims

Shamima Begum and two of her schoolgirl friends were trafficked into Syria by an ISIS agent who was working for Canada at the time, it has been alleged in a new book

Daily Mirror

Iran Guards, Lebanese Hezbollah, Sadr Rivals Discussed Confronting him with Arms

Four leaders of Iraqi Shiite factions met with two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah party at a house in Baghdad in mid-August. Just outside, in the heavily fortified Green Zone, supporters of influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were collecting thousands of signatures for a “legal…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Attacked at home, Afghan Sikhs find community on Long Island

An Afghan Sikh family of 13 has found refuge in the diaspora community on Long Island

The Independent UK

Virtual Reality Revives Iraq's War-ravaged Heritage

An Iraqi museum is using computer technology and virtual reality headsets to turn back time, so visitors can explore heritage sites destroyed by militants and in battles to defeat them. ISIS extremists captured a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, seizing the northern city of Mosul as…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Syrian Kurdish Forces Move to Halt ‘Brutal Torture’ at al-Hol Camp

US-backed Syrian Kurdish security forces have launched a new operation targeting ISIS sleeper cells in a large northeastern detention camp where violence has reached record levels. At least 44 people including 14 women have been killed this year in the al-Hol camp, which holds internal refugees and families of suspected…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Mexico man accused of trying to create ISIS "safe haven," training facility

Wilson attempted to create an “Islamic State Center” in New Mexico that would offer ISIS ideology teachings and training,the DOJ said.

Axios

New Mexico Man Accused of Planning ISIS Training Center

A New Mexico man was charged with attempting to set up a training center for people wishing to fight for ISIS, the Department of Justice said on Friday. A federal grand jury on Aug.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran-US Skirmishes Highlight Rivalry in Eastern Syria

Deadly skirmishes have been on the rise in recent days between US forces and Iran-aligned militias in Syria's oil-rich east, where both have carved out strategic footholds. Here is a closer look at their rival zones of influence in the desert province of Deir Ezzor, where rocket, mortar and drone…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Wife of murdered Perth aid worker David Haines says her pain goes on as Isis killer is jailed

El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced on Friday in the US for his role in the hostage-taking outrage after being convicted by a jury in April this year

Daily Record

Why does the US still have forces in Syria?

US forces have targeted a base operated by Iranian allies in eastern Syria after an attack near a US base last week.

Al Jazeera

Widow of murdered Scots aid worker David Haines 'will never forgive' as killer ISIS 'Beatle' jailed for life

David, from Perth, tragically lost his life at the hands of the twisted terror cell in September, 2014, after being kidnapped from a Syrian aid camp the previous year.

Daily Record

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Daily Mirror

ISIS Beatle tries to avoid Alcatraz-style prison by claiming he has poor mental health

ISIS executioner El Shafee Elsheikh has been sentenced to eight life terms and is almost certain to serve them alongside some of the world's most deadly inmates at a supermax jail.

Daily Mirror

Bloodied and burnt girls cry for mums as 4 friends lay dead in school drone attack horror

Renda Bakr, 17, and Novin Ezzat, 18 heard the drone but after that, it was all a blur of screams and blood as they describe the hours of terror in which four of their friends were killed

Daily Mirror

Syria atrocity as drone slaughters four girls playing volleyball at UN-funded centre

Major General John Brennan, a US Commander, said in a statement that he condemns a drone attack which targeted a girls’ learning centre in Hasaka, northeast Syria

WEKU

An Islamic State member is sentenced to life in prison in the deaths of hostages

El Shafee Elsheikh, part of a group known as the "ISIS Beatles," is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State to be convicted in the U.S,, prosecutors said.

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Wales Online

Islamic State 'Beatle' jailed for life after American hostages killed

El Shafee Elsheikh grew up in London

Daily Mirror

Victims of evil ISIS Beatles from beheaded Brits to woman sold as a sex slave

El-Shafee Elsheikh has been told he will spend life in prison for his role in the kidnap and vicious slaughter of 27 innocent victims, including two US journalists, two Brits and an American aid worker

The Independent UK

British ‘Beatle’ terrorist given life sentence over deaths of Western hostages

El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, who grew up in London, showed no emotion as judge Thomas Selby Ellis delivered his verdict.

The Independent UK

British Isis ‘Beatle’ sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and killing hostages

Elsheikh was a member of the notorious ‘Beatles’ terror cell, known for their brutal treatment of captives

Daily Mirror

ISIS Beatle's journey from QPR footballer hopeful to evil executioner as he's jailed

El-Shafee Elsheikh or "Jihadi Ringo" was one of four ISIS hostage takers named after "The Beatles" because of their British accents - who became infamous for their capacity to dole out cruel and unusual punishments

Daily Mirror

ISIS Beatle torturer to die in max-security prison as monster is sentenced to life

El Shafee Elsheikh was known as the main torturer of the ISIS Beatles terror cell - and was found guilty in April of killing 27 hostages in Syria including Brits David Haines and Alan Henning

Daily Record

Inside the prison ISIS Beatle will be sent to reserved for 'world's most dangerous'

Convicted ISIS Beatle member El Shafee Elsheikh is expected to serve his time at the Florence Administrative Maximum Facility in Colorado after for his role in terror killing of Scots aid worker David Haines and several others.

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