America is willing to drop the threat of the death penalty in order to put the British ‘ISIS Beatles’ on trial, it was reported last night. El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to a four-man execution cell in Syria named after the band by their captives. Elsheikh and Kotey also have admitted their … Read more
Foreign office plans airlift of ‘a small number’ of ISIS jihadis’ children from Syria to return them to the UK as wards of court and bring them up in care A small number of British children are being held in Syria after the fall of ISIS The Government wants the children returned to the UK … Read more
Female Irish solider who joined ISIS, fled to Syria and became the second wife of British jihadi after converting to Islam appears in Irish court charged with terrorism Lisa Smith, 38, has been charged with membership of an unlawful organisation The former member of Irish Defence Forces appeared at Dublin District Court Smith was arrested … Read more
Female Irish solider who joined ISIS, fled to Syria and became the second wife of British jihadi after converting to Islam appears in Irish court charged with terrorism Lisa Smith, 38, has been charged with membership of an unlawful organisation The former member of Irish Defence Forces appeared at Dublin District Court Smith was arrested … Read more
An ISIS ‘Beatle’ has for the first time admitted to abusing US hostage James Foley in an ISIS prison alongside ‘scared’ Kayla Mueller. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, who are both in U.S. military custody in Iraq, have given new details about the captivity of Western hostages in Syria, in interview tapes obtained by NBC … Read more
The parents of Kayla Mueller have told DailyMail.com that it’s ‘not easy’ learning that two ISIS ‘Beatles’ held in connection with their daughter’s capture in Syria have finally admitted their involvement in her brutal torture and death. American aid worker Kayla was captured and held hostage in Syria, where she was sexually abused and tortured … Read more
Two of the ISIS ‘Beatles’ have finally admitted their involvement in holding American aid worker Kayla Mueller hostage in Syria, where she was sexually abused and tortured before her death in 2015. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, who are both in U.S. military custody in Iraq, had previously denied ever meeting Mueller, but in … Read more
ISIS remains the ‘most significant’ threat to the UK, the Defence Secretary has warned today. Ben Wallace said an estimated 360 people from the UK who travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the terror group, also referred to as Daesh, remain in the region either at large or in detention. RAF aircraft have … Read more
The lawyer representing the family of jihadi bride Shamima Begum today made the extraordinary admission that ‘nobody can be sure’ if she is still a terror threat to Britain – but insisted that she should be allowed to return to the UK anyway. Tasnime Akunjee also declared that a ‘lack of technology’ in the Syrian … Read more
A slight, watchful figure, she perched on a sofa in the camp commandant’s office studying me. Having had no visitors for many months, she was very wary. ‘What are you?’ she asked finally. I didn’t need to ask her the same question. By then her face was instantly recognisable; the so-called poster girl for Islamic … Read more
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum has been pictured today wearing jeans, a shirt and a blue hat as she walked through a Syrian refugee camp just hours after she won the right to return to the UK to challenge the stripping of her British citizenship. Begum – one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to … Read more
Up to 150 British jihadis and their brides will be celebrating today after senior judges ruled that Shamima Begum must be allowed to return to the UK to fight the Home Office’s decision to revoke her British citizenship for joining the murderous Islamic State regime. Begum – one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to … Read more
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum must be allowed to return to the UK to fight the Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship for joining the murderous Islamic State regime, senior judges ruled today. Begum – one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join ISIS – lost her UK passport after she was … Read more