ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Thursday it would deport an American suspected Islamic State fighter to the United States after he was refused entry to Greece, and sent eight people with links to the group to Germany and Britain. NATO allies of Turkey in Europe have been worried that Continue Reading
Baghdadi’s successor likely to be Iraqi religious scholar
Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister / CNN What remains of ISIS -- the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria -- is yet to acknowledge the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who died in a raid by US forces in northern Syria on Saturday. At this early stage it's not clear who will succeed Continue Reading
Despite Trump’s Guantánamo Threats, Americans Who Joined ISIS Are Quietly Returning Home
Robin Wright / The New Yorker On June 5th, eight Americans were quietly flown home from the former ISIS caliphate in Syria. The two women and six minors, whose identities were not disclosed, are now being resettled at unnamed locations with help from the U.S. government. They are not the first Continue Reading
He Was Trained by Al Qaeda to Bomb the Subway. Then He Switched Sides.
By Colin Moynihan / New York Times, May 2, 2019 Najibullah Zazi, convicted in a 2009 plot to bomb New York trains, will be released soon from prison after having provided extensive information to American agents. He was a high-school dropout from Queens who worked in a coffee cart in Continue Reading