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Islamic State 'Beatle' Kotey sentenced to life in jail by US court

Washington (AFP) - Alexanda Kotey, part of the Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," was sentenced to life in prison Friday, with relatives of victims addressing him and another member directly in the US court.

AFP

Athea Haines: It’s not easy to be the girl whose dad was killed by terrorists

The eleven-year-old daughter of a hostage killed by so-called Islamic State faced one of the men responsible for her father’s death in US court.

The Independent UK

'Beatle' gets life sentence for Islamic State beheadings

A British national who played a key hole in a scheme by the Islamic State to kidnap and kill Western hostages a decade ago has been sentenced to life in prison

The Independent UK

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Daughter of murdered aid worker Alan Henning comes face-to-face with member of Islamic State terror cell dubbed The Beatles in US court

Moments before Alexandra Kotey was jailed for life for his part in the murder of western hostages, Alan's daughter Lucy told the court about her feelings of guilt

Manchester Evening News

Brother of murdered Scots aid worker David Haines 'forgives' Isis terrorist over killing

Alexanda Amon Kotey, 38, has been jailed for life after admitting his role in the murder of US hostages in Syria.

Daily Record

Islamic State 'Beatle' Kotey sentenced to life in US jail

Washington (AFP) - Alexanda Kotey, part of the Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," was sentenced to life in jail by a United States court on Friday.

AFP

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

Alexanda Kotey was one of four so-called Islamic State militants nicknamed The Beatles by their captives due to their British accents.

The Independent UK

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IS claims bombing targeting Shiites in north Afghanistan

The Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for two bombings in the country’s north that targeted the country’s minority Hazara ethnic group

The Independent UK

Terrorist 'Beatle' Jihadi Ringo in court over hostage killings including Alan Henning

The Islamic State terrorist is expected to come face to face with his victims' families

Liverpool Echo

Family of Salford man Alan Henning to come face to face with one of murdering 'Beatles' today

Alexanda Amon Kotey will come face-to-face with his victims' families in court today

Manchester Evening News

Islamic State 'Beatle' sentenced to life for murdering U.S. hostages

A U.S. judge on Friday imposed a lifetime prison sentence on a member of an Islamic State militant group nicknamed "The Beatles" that beheaded American hostages, at a hearing where one victim's mother told the defendant, "I will not hate you."

Reuters

Islamic State claims deadly bomb blasts on minibuses in Afghan city

Kabul (AFP) - The Islamic State group claimed two bomb blasts aboard minibuses that killed at least nine people Thursday in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif, a week after a deadly explosion at a Shiite mosque in the northern city.

AFP

Blasts on vans carrying Shi'ite Muslims in northern Afghanistan kill nine

Bombs exploded aboard two passenger vans carrying Shi'ite Muslims in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, killing at least nine people, an official said.

Reuters

British children born to Islamic State parents at risk of being raised as ‘career terrorists’ in Syria camps

A woman sits with her child on the ground at Camp Roj, where relatives of people suspected of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group are held

Evening Standard

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UN team ‘shocked’ but ‘safe’ after strikes hit Kyiv during Guterres visit

Kyiv officials said Ukraine's capital was hit by Russian missile strikes on Thursday as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Earlier, US President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve an additional $33 billion in military and economic assistance to "help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression".…

Reuters

At U.N., Amal Clooney pushes for Ukraine war crimes justice

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney urged countries at the United Nations on Wednesday to focus on international justice for war crimes in Ukraine so evidence does not sit in storage - as it has done for victims of Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria.

France 24

'It's a policy of invasion': ADF rebels expand attacks in DR Congo

In the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels have expanded their operations into Ituri province. On April 10 and 11, around 30 people were killed near the town of Komanda by the ADF, an Islamist group that was originally based in Uganda. The…

The Independent UK

Hunger grips Burkina Faso due to increasing jihadi violence

Hunger is soaring across conflict-ridden Burkina Faso, a result of increasing violence by jihadi rebels linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, which has killed thousands and displaced millions, preventing people from farming

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Blast in northeastern Nigeria injures 11 people, say police

A blast in the capital of Nigeria's northeastern Taraba state on Friday evening injured 11 people including children, police said, days after an explosion claimed by Islamic State killed 3 people at a marketplace in a rural town in Taraba.

Evening Standard

At least 33 dead in mosque explosion in Afghanistan

At least 33 people have been killed after a bomb was detonated at a mosque and religious teaching school in Afghanistan, a Taliban official has said.

AFP

Mosque blast kills 33 in Afghanistan

Kunduz (Afghanistan) (AFP) - A bomb blast ripped through a mosque during Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan, killing 33 people including children, just a day after the Islamic State group claimed two separate deadly attacks.

AFP

Taliban arrest IS 'mastermind' of Afghan mosque attack: police

Kabul (AFP) - Taliban forces have arrested a suspected Islamic State militant who allegedly planned a bomb attack that killed at least 12 worshippers at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan, police said Friday.

The Independent UK

Afghan IS group claims series of bombings targeting Shiites

Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate has claimed responsibility for a series of bombings that targeted the country's minority Shiite Muslims

AFP

At least 16 dead as IS-claimed blasts rock Afghan cities

Kabul (AFP) - At least 16 people were killed in bomb blasts in two Afghan cities on Thursday -- attacks claimed by the Islamic State group (IS).

The Independent UK

Blasts across Afghanistan kill at least 10, injure dozens

Explosions across Afghanistan have killed at least 10 people and wounded scores more

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