The Irish Times

Islamic State ‘Beatles’ cell member convicted for role in hostage-taking plot

US jury decides Elsheikh part of gang that beheaded American hostages

Thu Apr 14 2022 - 20:25

Member of Islamic State ‘Beatles’ cell pleads guilty in hostage cases

Alexanda Kotey was part of terror group cell of four Britons known for its extreme brutality

Fri Sept 03 2021 - 10:06

Alleged Isis ‘Beatles’ to be tried in US on charges of hostage deaths

Islamic State militants Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh to appear in court in Virginia

Wed Oct 07 2020 - 19:22

Syria and the end of normality

In her new book, The Morning They Came for Us, the war reporter Janine di Giovanni uses her first-hand experience to describe life in a war zone

Sat Jun 04 2016 - 05:45

Kathy Sheridan : How to explain Jihadi John?

How he must have longed for the bullies at home to know how far he had travelled. How easy it must have been to transfer that blazing vengeance to his blameless victims, coating his actions in a depraved ideology.

Wed Nov 18 2015 - 12:14

French aircraft destroy jihadi training camp in Raqqa

Hollande vows to be ‘unforgiving with the barbarians’ of Islamic State

Mon Nov 16 2015 - 20:37

Islamic State held US hostage Kayla Mueller as sex slave

Kayla Mueller, who was killed in February, was chained in a room with other girls

Sat Aug 15 2015 - 17:47

Memorial held for US woman killed by Islamic miltants

Candles light up plaza at Arizona courthouse as hundreds gather to honour Kayla Mueller

Thu Feb 19 2015 - 07:49

Obama asks Congress for war approval to fight Islamic State

US president rules out long ground war in request for limited action against extremists

Wed Feb 11 2015 - 23:12

Kayla Mueller’s letter to her family: The full text

“Do not fear for me, continue to pray as will I + by God’s will we will be together soon”

Tue Feb 10 2015 - 21:01

Obama confirms death of US hostage Kayla Mueller kidnapped by Islamic State in Syria

Aid worker’s family received private message from militant group that confirmed death

Tue Feb 10 2015 - 16:30

Islamic State ‘sentenced’ US hostage to death last year -activist

Sentence ‘not carried out’ after representations from family of jailed Pakistani woman

Sun Feb 08 2015 - 07:25