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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.

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - US

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

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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

The Independent UK

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…

France 24

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

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

The Independent UK

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Gorakhpur temple attack accused acted like IS-inspired 'lone wolf': UP ATS

LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (UPATS) sleuths said on Tuesday that Gorakhnath temple attack accused Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi seemed to be inspired by the lone wolf attack pattern of the Islamic State (IS). The ATS sleuths interrogated Murtaza after finding several IS videos in his laptop.

The Times of India

Mines kill, injure over 500 children in Iraq

At least 519 children have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance in Iraq in the past five years, UN agencies have warned.

Bangkok Post

300 killed by Mali's army and foreigners, says rights group

An international rights group says Mali's army and foreign soldiers suspected to be Russian recently killed an estimated 300 men — some of them suspected Islamic extremist fighters but most civilians — in Moura in central Mali

The Independent UK

U.S. calls reports of many killed in Mali 'extremely disturbing'

The United States is following "extremely disturbing accounts" of large numbers of people killed in a village in central Mali, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Sunday.

Reuters

Mali says military operation in Moura area kills 200 militants

Mali's military said it has killed over 200 Islamist militants in an operation in the centre of the West African country, the latest clash in a month of escalating violence.

Reuters

How the Islamic State trial could change the future of US terrorism cases

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

The Guardian - US

Islamic State hostages ‘forced into brutal prison fights by captors known as The Beatles’

An aid worker held by the Islamic State “Beatles” says he and fellow prisoners were forced to take part in “Royal Rumble” fights during 14 months in captivity.

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The Independent UK

Report: US military must do more to avoid civilian deaths

A new report says the U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants

The Guardian - UK

Islamic State hostages were forced to fight each other, US court hears

Aid workers and journalists subjected to constant abuse, Federico Motka says at trial of El Shafee Elsheikh

Reuters

U.N. peacekeepers deployed to northeastern Mali amid spate of killings

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali has deployed two units to the African country's tri-border area with Burkina Faso and Niger to respond to a spate of civilian killings, it said on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Surviving hostage relates ordeal in Islamic State captivity

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

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Radio France Internationale

Prime Paris attacks suspect insists on right to silence but manages to say a lot

Wednesday was eagerly anticipated as a crucial day at the Paris attacks trial. Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the suicide killers who murdered 130 people on the night of 13 November 2015, was to give his version of what really happened. The public benches were packed. The media showed…

Evening Standard

‘IS Beatle gave hostages going-away beatings’

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.

Reuters

Russia concerned at Islamic State's plans to destabilise Central Asia -report

Russia is concerned about the plans of militant group Islamic State to destabilise central Asia and spread instability to the country as well, the RIA news agency said.

The Independent UK

Prosecutor: Brit's brutality uncommon even for Islamic State

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

Reuters

U.S. prosecutors accuse alleged ISIS 'Beatle' of 'brutal hostage-taking'

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.

The Independent UK

Woman who travelled to territory of so-called IS not ‘prima facie a terrorist’

Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith has pleaded not guilty to charges of membership of IS and providing funds to benefit the group.

Manchester Evening News

Manchester Arena bombing public inquiry has cost taxpayers £26.7m so far

Most of the money - some £18.6m - has gone on legal fees, including those on lawyers representing Ismail Abedi

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