Islamic State

30 November 2021, Hessen, Frankfurt_Main: Iraqi defendant Taha Al-J. (L) coveres his face with a folder as he enters the courtroom of the Frankfurt's Higher Regional Court before a verdict is pronounced. The Federal Prosecution has accused Taha of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, human trafficking and murder. As a suspected member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terro group, he allegedly enslaved a Yazidi woman and her daughter and subjected them to abuse. According to the indictment, Taha faces accusations of leaving the little girl to die of thirst after tying her up in Fallujah, Iraq. Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa.

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TERRORISM

Suspected Islamic State member arrested on his way to Northern Europe

12/2/21

Tunisian authorities had issued an international arrest warrant for the 25-year-old

25 October 2021, Bavaria, Munich: The defendant Jennifer W. covers her face with a file in the courtroom before the trial begins. The woman who travelled to Iraq to join Islamic State has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in Munich after she was charged with murder and war crimes. She allegedly stood idly by while a little Yazidi girl was chained in a courtyard and died of thirst. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa.

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TERRORISM

German Islamic State returnee sentenced to 10 years in prison

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/25/21

Jennifer W. was sentenced for membership in a terrorist organisation abroad, aiding and abetting attempted murder, attempting to commit a war crime, and crimes against humanity

07 October 2021, US, Washington: Flowers seen on an Afghan flag during a demonstration demanding no more drone attacks on Afghanistan during a rally marking the 20th Anniversary of the US attack on Afghanistan at Raytheon Headquarters. Photo: Lenin Nolly/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

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TERRORISM

More than 100 people dead or wounded in Afghan mosque attack

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/8/21

A senior spokesman for the Taliban confirmed the attack and said that special forces had been sent to the scene

A veiled woman wearing a mask enters a screened-off area of the Federal Police at Frankfurt Airport from the gangway of a charter plane with two small children. In an action that was initially kept secret, the German government, in cooperation with the US Army, had taken a total of eight German female supporters of the terrorist militia "Islamic State" (IS) and their 23 children from a prison camp in Syria as part of a humanitarian operation. The women were brought to Germany via Kuwait on a charter plane, where almost all of them were immediately taken into custody. Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa

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TERRORISM

Germany repatriates eight women suspected of joining Islamic State

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/7/21

Many of the returning women were detained upon landing, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.

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AFGHANISTAN

Taliban says it's capable of suppressing Islamic State in Afghanistan

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/21/21

The Taliban and the Islamic State have fought against each other in the past

FILED - 13 June 2021, Iraq, Al-Humaydat: Members of expert teams take part in the opening of a mass grave and the exhumation of the remains of victims who were killed and buried by the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group back in 2014. More than 500 people, predominantly Shia Muslims, where executed and buried in the mass grave during an IS attack on the Badush Prison on 10 June 2014. The mass grave, which was first discovered in 2017, is located in the village of Al-Humaydat, 30 km west of the city of Mosul, a former IS stronghold in Iraq's northern Nineveh Governorate. Photo: Ismael Adnan/dpa

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PRISON SENTENCE

German court jails mother of 5 for Islamic State membership in Syria

The Nomad Today/dpa 7/1/21

The woman was arrested in Essen in July last year, some two and a half years after returning to Germany.

US Army troops deployed on a highway in Syria. Photo: Ivan Omar Hassib from Pexels.

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TERRORISM

Sweden convicts woman over abducting son to Islamic State territory

The Nomad Today/dpa 3/8/21

The boy's father, whom she had divorced, had agreed to let her take their son to Turkey for a holiday, but the court found that she continued on to territory in Syria controlled by Islamic State.

A Woman in Al-Hol Camp, Syria. Photo: Y. Boechat (VOA).

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JIHADISM

IS terrorist suspect returned to Norway blames husband in trial

The Nomad Today/dpa 3/1/21

The defendant, born in Pakistan but raised in Oslo, was married to three foreign fighters in Syria after joining in 2013 her first husband, Bastian Vasquez, a Chilean-Norwegian jihadist who…