Jane Arraf
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Yazidi Women Hide Among ISIS Wives In Syria Detention Camp
Dozens of Yazidi women who were enslaved by ISIS in Iraq in 2014 are living in a detention camp in Syria. Some only now feel free to tell anyone who they are out of fear for their lives.
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'Revenge Is For The Weak': Kurdish Courts In Northeastern Syria Take On ISIS Cases
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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Iraq Sentences 4 French ISIS Fighters To Death
Four French ISIS fighters are among the dozen French citizens transferred to Iraqi custody from Syria. They're illustrating a huge problem over the trials of ISIS fighters.
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France Won't Take ISIS Fighters Back, But Doesn't Want Them Executed Either
France doesn't want to bring back French ISIS members captured in Iraq, but French authorities are dismayed that an Iraqi court has sentenced four of them to death.
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Conditions Are Deteriorating At Syria Camp Where ISIS Families Are Being Held
Conditions are deteriorating at a camp in Syria where thousands of families of ISIS members are being held. There's little medical care or aid and people are getting more violent and desperate.
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Canadian Government Won't Repatriate Toronto Man Who Joined ISIS
Kurdish-Syrian forces hold hundreds of Westerners in camps in northeast Syria, pleading for their countries to take them back and put them on trial. But most countries are washing their hands of them.
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Freed By ISIS, Yazidi Mothers Face Wrenching Choice: Abandon Kids Or Never Go Home
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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'We Pray For The Caliphate To Return': ISIS Families Crowd Into Syrian Camps
"The women and children who have been raised on the mentality of ISIS and terrorism need to be rehabilitated," warns an official. "Otherwise, they will be the foundations of future terrorism."
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Libya Could Descend Into War Again After Army General Launches Surprise Attack On Tripoli
Libya is once again facing instability as a renegade general leads forces attempting to oust the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli.
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Freedom From ISIS Means Yazidi Women Must Abandon Their Children
Many women freed from ISIS slavery in Syria are facing heart-wrenching decisions as they attempt to return to their families, who are part of a religious minority.