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    Danisch Farooqi with his daughter, Aaliya, in Hamburg, Germany, when she was around 2 years old. "I haven't seen her in five years," he says. He wonders if she has forgotten him.
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    'I Would Do Anything For Her': A German Dad's Search For His Daughter, Taken By ISIS

    Jun 16, 2019
    A German father struggles to find and bring home his young daughter, taken by his ex-wife when she went to Syria five years ago with her new husband, an ISIS fighter.
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    The skeletal remains of a mosque stand amid overgrown shrubs. Authorities say 25 mosques were destroyed in the district most affected by the five months of fighting between government forces and ISIS militants in Marawi.
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    The Philippines' Marawi City Remains Wrecked Nearly 2 Years After ISIS War

    Jun 12, 2019
    The city has a rich heritage of buildings and mosques. Today, the battle scars are as prominent as ever and residents displaced by the conflict complain about the sluggish reconstruction.
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    Caregiver Fajriya Khaled holds a child at an orphanage in northeastern Syria, home to 41 children of Yazidi mothers and ISIS fathers. The Yazidi community in Iraq forces the women to leave their children behind if they want to return home.
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    In Syria, An Orphanage Cares For Children Born To Yazidi Mothers Enslaved By ISIS

    Jun 06, 2019
    Because their fathers were ISIS fighters, the Yazidi community rejects the children and forces their mothers to give them up. Some willingly do so, but others are desperate for news of their children.
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    The People's Defense Court in the Rojava district of northeast Syria. Judges here have been holding trials of thousands of ISIS fighters. The Kurdish-led region broke from Syrian government control in 2012 and has developed its own justice system that it
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    'Revenge Is For The Weak': Kurdish Courts In Northeastern Syria Take On ISIS Cases

    May 29, 2019
    Kurdish Syrian authorities have tried 7,000 ISIS suspects in a justice system that bans torture and the death penalty. Some of the judges are women, which comes as a shock to ISIS fighters on trial.
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    Bindu Sampath, 52, shows photos of her daughter Nimisha Sampath, now 29, who left India three years ago, after converting to Islam. She and her husband, a fellow Muslim convert, are wanted by Indian authorities for allegedly joining ISIS. They're believe
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    'God, Please Help Her': Indian Parents Agonize Over Radicalization Of Their Children

    May 26, 2019
    ISIS has radicalized people around the world. But even with one of the world's largest Muslim populations, India has had very few cases of radicalization — until recently. Most cases are in the south.
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    Women sit on the floor as they wait in a clinic at the al-Hol detention camp.
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    Misery Grows At Syrian Camp Holding ISIS Family Members

    May 23, 2019
    In recent visits to the camp, NPR was told of babies dying of malnutrition, and found women collapsed by roadsides. "There's a lack of supplies and the numbers of patients are huge," a doctor says.
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    Ibrahim, 2, in northeastern Syria a few hours after his freed Yazidi mother returned to Iraq without him. Ibrahim's father was an ISIS fighter. Although his mother wanted to take him home, the Yazidis do not allow children of ISIS fathers to live with th
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    Freed By ISIS, Yazidi Mothers Face Wrenching Choice: Abandon Kids Or Never Go Home

    May 09, 2019
    Women kidnapped by ISIS five years ago are now being freed. But the Yazidi community does not allow children born in captivity of militant fathers to return with them.
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    This image made from video posted on a militant website on April 29 purports to show ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet.
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    Opinion: Here's Why ISIS And Al-Qaida Will Lose Their War Of Attrition

    May 03, 2019
    "America sees this as an existential fight," writes former CIA analyst Aki Peritz, who argues in this case, the classic insurgent strategy of bleeding a better-resourced adversary is doomed to fail.
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    Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in his first public appearance in Mosul, Iraq, in July 2014 (left) and in a video released Monday that purported to show him speaking to supporters.
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    ISIS Leader Apparently Releases Video For First Time In 5 Years

    Apr 29, 2019
    The man who is purportedly Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi acknowledges the recent major defeat of ISIS in Baghouz, Syria.
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    Women carry children near the al-Hol camp in Syria's Kurdish-majority region of Rojava. The camp is filled with more than 72,000 people — most of them women and children who came out of the last ISIS-held territory.
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    'We Pray For The Caliphate To Return': ISIS Families Crowd Into Syrian Camps

    Apr 19, 2019
    "The women and children who have been raised on the mentality of ISIS and terrorism need to be rehabilitated," an official warns. "Otherwise, they will be the foundations of future terrorism."
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    U.S.-backed fighters stand guard on a building during shelling of the Islamic State's last holdout in the town of Baghouz, Syria, on March 3.
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    Analysis: The End Of The 'Caliphate' Doesn't Mean The End Of ISIS

    Mar 22, 2019
    White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Friday that ISIS' territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria. Even so, its threats remain.
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    Fighters with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces hold a position on a hilltop overlooking the last ISIS enclave in the village of Baghouz.
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    ISIS Camp In Baghouz Is Captured As U.S. Allies Declare Progress In Syria

    Mar 19, 2019
    "This is not a victory announcement," the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces say, even as they celebrate a breakthrough in a battle in Syria's Euphrates River Valley.
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    Mazen (right), 13, and his brother Mezban in a camp for displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Mazen was freed recently, five years after being kidnapped by ISIS. He was found in Baghouz, the last ISIS stronghold in Syria. His brother was als
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    Freed From ISIS, Few Yazidis Return To Suffering Families, Many Remain Missing

    Mar 14, 2019
    As ISIS loses territory and captives are rescued, broken Yazidi families hold out hope that their loved ones could still return.
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    Shamima Begum was stripped of her citizenship last month but her child, a boy, was still considered a British national. However, the government argued it was too dangerous to try to retrieve the newborn from the sprawling refugee camp where the pair live
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    Baby Of British ISIS Woman Stripped Of Citizenship Has Died

    Mar 08, 2019
    Shamima Begum, who was 15 when she fled to Syria in 2015, had been begging to return to the U.K. prior to her son's birth last month, saying she feared for his health. He died of pneumonia.
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    Hoda Muthana, 24, left the U.S. to join ISIS more than four years ago. She now wants to return to the country of her birth along with her son. A judge ruled Monday that she'll have to wait for her case to follow the normal litigation process while she li
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    Woman Who Left U.S. To Join ISIS Denied Request To Expedite Her Case To Return

    Mar 05, 2019
    A judge ruled there isn't sufficient evidence proving Hoda Muthana and her toddler face imminent harm in Syria. It's a setback for the ISIS bride who hoped to fight her citizenship claim from the U.S.
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    Hassan Shibly, attorney for the family of Hoda Muthana, says she was a "vulnerable young woman who was brainwashed and manipulated."
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    Alabama Woman Who Joined ISIS Can't Come Back, Trump Says

    Feb 21, 2019
    Hoda Muthana was 20 when she moved to Syria and started posting ISIS propaganda online. She says she has renounced the group and wants to return home, but the Trump administration refuses to allow it.
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    Veiled women reportedly associated with ISIS walk under the supervision of a female fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria on Sunday. Over the weekend, President Trump demanded European allies repatriate their citizens captured a
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    European Leaders Reluctant To Meet Trump's Demands To Take Back Captive ISIS Fighters

    Feb 18, 2019
    They say there's rarely enough evidence to prosecute. "The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go," Trump tweeted.
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    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led the effort to advance an amendment that supports keeping U.S. troops in Syria and Afghanistan to fight ISIS and al-Qaida.
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    Senate Republicans Rebuke President On Syria And Afghanistan Policy

    Jan 31, 2019
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's amendment opposing a "precipitous withdrawal" from Syria was backed by many GOP senators who disagree with the president's foreign policy.
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    Mahmud, 11, Ayyub, 7, and their mother, Felicia Perkins-Ferreira, walk toward the boat that will take them out of Syria, across the river to Iraq, so they can start their journey home to Trinidad.
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    Trinidadian Kids Taken Away To ISIS Reunite With Mom, Thanks To Help From A Rock Star

    Jan 26, 2019
    After four years in Syria, two brothers returned home to Trinidad this week, following an extraordinary intervention by their mother, a renowned human rights lawyer and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
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    In this Nov. 7, 2018, photo released by the U.S. Army, U.S. soldiers gather for a brief during a combined joint patrol rehearsal in Manbij, Syria.
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    Opinion: Leaving Syria Is Far Less Risky Than Staying

    Jan 19, 2019
    ISIS may not be defeated, but the U.S. is right to withdraw from Syria, argue Aaron David Miller of the Woodrow Wilson Center and Richard Sokolsky of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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    A Syrian woman carries an infant Thursday past the ruins of a restaurant in Manbij that was targeted by the Islamic State. Four Americans were killed in the attack.
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    Defense Department Releases Names Of Three U.S. Casualties In Syria Attack

    Jan 18, 2019
    The Americans died in a suicide bombing near a restaurant in Manbij, in northern Syria. Analysts say the attacker may have targeted a spot that had become a favorite for U.S. troops.
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    A security force member walks outside a shuttered restaurant Thursday in Manbij, Syria, the site of a suicide attack that killed more than a dozen people, including four Americans, a day earlier. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
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    How Strong Is The Islamic State In Syria?

    Jan 17, 2019
    ISIS has lost almost all its territory, but it claimed a suicide bombing that killed four Americans. The extremist group is still believed to have thousands of fighters who have gone underground.
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    An explosion damaged a restaurant in Manbij, Syria, on Wednesday, as shown in a screen grab from the Kurdish Hawar News agency, or ANHA.
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    U.S. Troops Killed By Blast In Syria; Islamic State Claims Responsibility

    Jan 16, 2019
    Four Americans are reported dead, and three more injured, in a suicide bombing in northern Syria. The attack comes shortly after President Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw troops from Syria.
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    The Pentagon has "begun the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria," a military spokesman says. In this photo from Dec. 30, 2018, a line of U.S. military vehicles are seen at a checkpoint in northern Syria.
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    U.S. Has 'Begun The Process' Of Withdrawing From Syria, Pentagon Says

    Jan 11, 2019
    The military gave no details on the departure timeline for the more than 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria "out of concern for operational security."
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    Displaced Syrians gather inside a tent in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria on Dec. 8. People fled towns where the U.S.-led coalition is fighting the last remnants of ISIS.
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    'We Were Eating Grass': Syrians Flee As Fight Pushes On Against Last ISIS Remnants

    Jan 06, 2019
    The last U.S.-led offensive against ISIS in Syria is taking place in a remote desert region. The al-Hol refugee camp is overwhelmed with new arrivals.
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