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The Latest Breaking News from Islamic State

Isis morphs and grows in Pakistan and Afghanistan amid fear of more attacks

The terrorist group’s attacks have risen in Pakistan but declined in Afghanistan

The Independent UK

‘I’ve killed him’: David Amess murder was last act of two-year plot

Ali Harbi Ali had long been looking for an MP to assassinate before stabbing Amess at church surgery

The Guardian - UK

Jurors take just 18 minutes to convict terrorist who murdered MP Sir David Amess

Ali Harbi Ali refused to stand in the dock as the unanimous verdicts were delivered.

The Independent UK

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Man found guilty of murdering UK lawmaker David Amess

A 'fanatical Islamist, who was inspired by Islamic State, was found guilty on Monday of murdering British lawmaker David Amess, who was knifed to death in a frenzied attack inside a church where he was meeting voters.

Reuters

Ali Harbi Ali found guilty of murdering MP David Amess in retaliation for Syria

Ali was also found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism

Wales Online

Terrorist guilty of ‘cold and calculating’ murder of MP Sir David Amess

London-born Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was convicted of carrying out the atrocity at Sir David’s constituency surgery in Essex in October last year.

The Independent UK

Ali Harbi Ali guilty of murdering MP David Amess in terrorist attack

Twenty-six-year-old stabbed long-serving Conservative after being fuelled by Islamic State propaganda

The Guardian - UK

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In north Syria, business hub hopes to drive recovery from war

In an industrial zone in northern Syria's rebel-held city of Al-Bab, Abu Omar al-Shihabi's smelter churns out iron bars he says can compete with any produced in Syria and beyond.

Reuters

Islamic State morphs and grows in Pakistan, Afghanistan

A ruthless Islamic State affiliate, known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province or IS-K, emerged in eastern Afghanistan in 2014

The Independent UK

Iraqi man alleging 35 family members were killed by Australian airstrike denied compensation

Man applied to Australian government for act of grace payment over Mosul strike targeting Islamic State in 2017

The Guardian - AU

Former hostages unmask Islamic State 'Beatle' at trial

Alexandria (United States) (AFP) - Former hostages taking the witness stand at the trial of their alleged Islamic State group captor have described their brutal treatment in chilling detail.

AFP

Paris attacks accused lose ground as their own witnesses fail to deliver

Two witnesses appeared on Thursday at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in and around Paris. Both the Belgian investigating judge, Isabelle Panou, and an anonymous French anti-terrorist police officer…

Radio France Internationale

Ex-MSF worker testifies at trial of IS 'Beatle'

Alexandria (United States) (AFP) - A former Doctors Without Borders (MSF) worker held for three months in Syria in 2014 by the Islamic State group testified on Thursday to the particularly brutal treatment meted out to American and British hostages.

AFP

Ali Harbi Ali tells court he did not feel shame after killing David Amess

Old Bailey hears defendant say he killed Tory MP because he had voted for military campaign in Syria

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The Independent UK

MP murder accused tells jury: ‘I killed him to stop him harming Muslims’

Ali Harbi Ali, 26, denies the murder of Sir David Amess during a constituency surgery in October last year.

Evening Standard

El Shafee Elsheikh trial: Hostages of ‘sadistic’ IS terror cell forced to sing sick parody of Hotel California

Hostages of a “sadistic” Islamic State terror cell were forced to sing a sick parody of the Eagles song ‘Hotel California’ retitled ‘Hotel Osama’, a journalist has told a US court.

The Guardian - US

Court hears US hostage’s emotional letter to father as IS trial continues

Peter Kassig, who was later killed, described paralysis and hope and offered words of comfort to his family

AFP

IS captives were forced to sing 'Hotel Osama': French hostage

Alexandria (United States) (AFP) - A French journalist held by the Islamic State in Syria testified Wednesday that he and other hostages were forced by their captors to sing a depraved parody of the Eagles song "Hotel California" called "Hotel Osama."

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The Independent UK

Witnesses describe hostages' despair at Brit's terror trial

Jurors at the terrorism trial of British national El Shafee Elsheikh are hearing emotional testimony as the trial stretches into its second week in a Virginia courtroom

The Independent UK

Sister: Gunmen took 83-year-old nun from bed in Burkina Faso

A Louisiana official for an order of Catholic nuns says 10 gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived

France 24

French priest renowned for uncovering massacres warns of ‘Buchas everywhere’

Over the past two decades, Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, has been identifying World War II atrocity sites, uncovering evidence of overlooked massacres. After doing similar work with the Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, he is now back in Ukraine, collecting…

AFP

Why are there fears in Jerusalem during Ramadan?

Jerusalem (AFP) - After 11 lives were lost in a spate of attacks, some linked to the Islamic State group, Israel placed its forces on high alert for Ramadan, which began last weekend.

The Independent UK

Indonesian jails activist lawyer over Islamic radicalism

A former Indonesian human rights lawyer who joined an Islamic hard-line group has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of incitement with the aim to establish a caliphate in a secular country

AFP

Kayla Mueller's mother recalls pleas to IS to spare her daughter

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.

The Independent UK

Zelensky claims Russia troops are ‘cutting out civilians’ tongues’ and want to make Ukrainians ‘silent slaves’

Volodymyr Zelensky likened actions of Russian forces to those of Islamic State

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