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US hostage 'was raped by IS leader'

Kayla Mueller, the US aid worker killed this year while being held hostage by Islamic State militants, was raped repeatedly by the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while in captivity in Syria, US officials said. Her paren

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Islamic State says US hostage killed in Syria air strike

Islamic State said on Friday that an American woman hostage it was holding in Syria was killed when Jordanian fighter jets bombed a building where she was being held, but Jordan expressed doubt about the Islamist militant group's account of

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IS claims beheading of yet another US hostage

 Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria claimed in a video posted online on Sunday that they had beheaded American hostage Peter Kassig. The video did not show the beheading but showed a masked man standing with a

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Islamic State ‘beheads second US journalist’

The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show the beheading of a second American hostage, journalist Steven Sotloff, raising the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over US air strikes on its insurgents

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