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Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against an alleged member of the notorious ISIS kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles." El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, declined the opportunity to testify in his own defense at his trial in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Asked by Judge T.S.

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

As a Virginia jury hears horrific allegations, experts say the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh sets an important precedent

A hostage who survived more than a year as a captive of the Islamic State is testifying about the beatings and torture inflicted on him by his captors

A London-born Islamic State fighter accused of being part of the notorious ‘Beatles’ terror cell allegedly dished out “going-away beatings” to hostages who were about to be released, a US court has heard.

Prosecutors told a federal jury that a British national on trial for terrorist acts that resulted in the gruesome deaths of four American hostages had a reputation for outsize brutality

A former British national accused of engaging in "brutal hostage-taking" as an alleged member of an Islamic State cell nicknamed "the Beatles" appeared in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday for the start of his criminal trial.

El Shafee Elsheikh is accused of brutal treatment of hostages and of being involved in the deaths of journalists and aid workers, writes Richard Hall in Alexandria, Virginia

An alleged member of a group of ISIS militants that beheaded American hostages in Iraq and Syria, nicknamed "The Beatles" for their British accents, faces a US criminal trial beginning on Tuesday. El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, will stand trial in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, on charges…