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1. Is the fictional film 'The Kerala Story' cautionary or propaganda?

Subjects
The Kerala Story (Motion picture) -- Public opinion -- Social aspects, Islamic converts -- Portrayals, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

A film called '(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24268454/) The Kerala Story,' released in India earlier this month, claims that thousands of Hindu and Christian women from the southern Indian state of Kerala are being [...]

Published
2023

2. 4 years later, the legacy of ISIS prevents these Iraqi children from going to school

Subjects
School enrollment -- Laws, regulations and rules, Terrorists -- Family, Public schools -- Safety and security measures -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Ameera Ismail Ahmed, 29, who lives in Mosul, Iraq, is having a hard time getting her children into school. The Iraqi government doesn't recognize identification documents issued by ISIS, the [...]

Published
2023

3. Court orders Canada to take back its citizens from camps in Syria

Subjects
Human rights -- Laws, regulations and rules, Repatriation -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Canada. Constitution Act 1982, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

When Alexandra Bain heard the news that the 23 Canadians detained in camps in northeastern Syria could be coming home soon, she was shocked and delighted. 'I am really, really [...]

Published
2023

4. After ISIS

Author

Manisera, Sara

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Family -- Social aspects, Repatriation, Aircraft, Kurds, Kidnapping, Social sciences, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Thousands of former ISIS foreign fighters and their families are held in Kurdish camps in Syria. Hundreds have escaped during the recent Turkish offensive. Most European countries refuse to repatriate [...]

Published
2020

5. Jamaican Cleric Accused Of Being Marriage Broker For ISIS Is Facing a Trial

Author

Moynihan, Colin

Subjects
Conspiracy -- Cases, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Prosecutors say that Abdullah el-Faisal, who served time in Britain for inciting racial hatred, tried to find recruits for the Middle East extremist group. In late 2016, Abdullah el-Faisal, a [...]

Published
2022

6. After Years of 'Hell' in ISIS Detention Camp, 17 Australians Return Home

Author

Frost, Natasha and Albeck-Ripka, Livia

Subjects
Detention of persons -- Political aspects, Terrorists -- Family, Repatriation -- Political aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Dozens more Australians, many of them children, are still being held in Syria, but there is hope that the government will soon sponsor more releases. MELBOURNE, Australia -- Seventeen Australian [...]

Published
2022

7. Thousands of children are stranded at a camp in northern Syria. Who will repatriate them?

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Family, Refugee children -- Emigration and immigration -- Civil rights -- Safety and security measures -- Care and treatment, Refugee camps -- User statistics -- Location, Repatriation -- Management, Company business management, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

The UN counterterrorism chief, Vladimir Voronkov, is urging countries to repatriate the 27,000 children stranded in a massive camp in northeastern Syria, many of them sons and daughters of ISIS [...]

Published
2021

8. Children of ISIS, Stranded in Squalor in Syria

Author

Hubbard, Ben and Méheut, Constant

Subjects
Syria -- Military aspects -- Social aspects, Islamic militants -- Family -- Psychological aspects -- Social aspects -- Military aspects, Military prisons -- Social aspects -- Military aspects -- Psychological aspects, Refugee children -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment -- Military aspects -- Social aspects, Schools, Detention, Diseases, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

The children are living in squalid detention camps lacking schools, health care and clean water, and where disease and jihadist ideology are rampant. BEIRUT, Lebanon -- As about 900 children [...]

Published
2020

9. Torn apart by Islamic State and reunited in Calgary, Yazidi sisters see a brighter future

Author

Frangou, Christina

Subjects
Yezidis -- Emigration and immigration -- Family, Family reunification, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: CHRISTINA FRANGOU, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Nearly five years after Islamic State militants stormed into an Iraqi village and violently separated members of their family, two [...]

Published
2020

10. Effort To Return ISIS Families To Their Countries Of Origin Meets Stiff Resistance

Subjects
Antiterrorism measures, Islamic militants -- Family, National security, Kurds, Family, Detention, Syrian foreign relations, General interest, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=773148889 HOST: AILSA CHANG AILSA CHANG: Two weeks after the Turkish incursion into northeast Syria, Kurds in the region are still running detention [...]

Published
2019

11. A Mother's Journey To Get Her Daughter And Grandson Back From ISIS

Subjects
Daughters -- Safety and security measures, Mothers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Public radio, General interest, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=751538547 BYLINE: RUTH SHERLOCK HOST: MARY LOUISE KELLY MARY LOUISE KELLY: Imagine if one day your teenage daughter leaves home and disappears. You [...]

Published
2019

12. In Syria, An Orphanage Cares For Children Born To Yazidi Mothers Enslaved By ISIS

Subjects
Abandoned children -- Care and treatment, Yezidis -- Demographic aspects -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Family, Orphanages -- Services, General interest, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=729972161 BYLINE: JANE ARRAF HOST: RACHEL MARTIN RACHEL MARTIN: We're going to look now at one of the legacies of ISIS in Iraq [...]

Published
2019

13. Should France repatriate the children of ISIS fighters?

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Family, Repatriation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

It took months of campaigning but 60-year-old Lydie Maninchedda's three young grandsons have finally come home to France. 'I'm overcome with emotion,' Maninchedda says. The boys -- ages 5, 3, [...]

Published
2019

16. She Left London At 15 To Marry An ISIS Fighter. Now She Wants To Go Home

Subjects
Caliphs -- Social aspects, Women terrorists -- Public relations, Company public relations, General interest, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=695593528 HOST: MICHEL MARTIN MICHEL MARTIN: We're going to start the program with a focus on the battle against ISIS. President Trump is [...]

Published
2019

17. An American family is helping those left behind in Syria as ISIS withdraws

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Family, Humanitarian aid, Volunteers -- Appreciation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

ISIS fighters are defending the tiny patch of desert they still hold in eastern Syria. And now some of the women and children who travel with ISIS, as well as [...]

Published
2019

18. Among the ruins: in Syria, a remarkable group of archaeologists is battling to save the country's ancient treasures from the nihilists of Isis

Author

Bowen, Jeremy

Subjects
Archaeologists -- Practice -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Antiquities, Literature/writing, Political science, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

On 19 May this year, the ancient city of Palmyra was about to fall. Jihadist fighters were advancing in pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine-guns. They were from the group [...]

Published
2015

19. Is the Future of ISIS Female?

Author

Mironova, Vera

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Demographic aspects, Women terrorists -- Forecasts and trends, Special forces (Military science), Military personnel, Grenades, Soldiers, Legal fees, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

MOSUL, Iraq -- Sitting in a room in a burned-out house here in 2017, a group of Iraqi Special Operations Forces soldiers and I watched with surprise as two Islamic [...]

Published
2019

20. New research from different countries suggests that explaining jihadism primarily through religious lenses may no longer match reality, especially since the Islamic State (IS) has become prominent

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Religious aspects -- Social aspects, Radicalism -- Religious aspects, Jihad -- Social aspects, Philosophy and religion, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

New research from different countries suggests that explaining jihadism primarily through religious lenses may no longer match reality, especially since the Islamic State (IS) has become prominent. While other factors [...]

Published
2016

21. Islamic state's piracy, drive for purity depleting Middle East's cultural heritage

Subjects
Middle East -- Military aspects -- Social aspects, Cultural property -- Destruction, Philosophy and religion, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

The Islamic State (IS) has engaged in the greatest threat to the Middle East's cultural heritage and religious sites since World War II, writes Michael Danti in Anthropology News (May/June). [...]

Published
2016

22. Hope After ISIS

Author

Strehlke, Sade

Subjects
Yezidis -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Social aspects, Women's rights -- Social aspects, Sexual exploitation -- Social aspects -- Ethical aspects, Nonprofit organizations -- Services -- Aims and objectives, Abused women -- Social aspects -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Fashion and beauty, Motion pictures, Travel, recreation and leisure, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: -SADE STREHLKE HOPE AFTER ISIS Thousands of Yazidi girls were enslaved,tortured, and sexually brutalized by the extremist group . Now, grassroots organizations are stepping up to restore survivors' futures. [...]

Published
2016

23. An Australian woman went to Syria to find her ISIS-raised grandchildren

Author

Taylor , Adam

Subjects
Grandmothers -- Travel -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Family, Children -- Safety and security measures, Women, Refugees, Refugee camps, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Adam Taylor The fate of children raised by foreign fighters in the Islamic State has become an international issue following the collapse of the group's caliphate over the past [...]

Published
2019

24. ISIS Leaves Christian Villages Hollowed Out in Syria

Author

Hubbard, Ben

Subjects
Syrian Uprising, 2011-, Religious persecution, Christians -- Crimes against -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Assyrian Church of the East -- Social aspects, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

TEL TAL, Syria -- The memories of the retired oilman dot the village in Syria where he grew up. The mud chapel he got married in. The concrete church he [...]

Published
2018

25. Forced to deliver babies for ISIS, midwife shared moments tender, cruel and grotesque

Author

El-Ghobashy, Tamer

Subjects
Delivery (Childbirth) -- Social aspects, Midwives -- Practice -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Tamer El-Ghobashy RAQQA, Syria - Samira al-Nasr has delivered thousands of babies over four decades as a midwife in the city of Raqqa, but she says nothing was like [...]

Published
2018

26. Islamic state called out on sex crimes

Subjects
Sexual abuse, News, opinion and commentary, Social sciences, Women's issues/gender studies, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

An international coalition of organizations working for justice for girls and for improved laws to prosecute sexual violence has called on the United Nations to examine the more than 3,500 [...]

Published
2017

27. Paris Terror Attacks Suspect Arrested in Brussels; University of California Stabbing Suspect Possibly ISIS-Inspired; GOP Convention Could

Subjects
Republican National Convention, 2016, Paris Attacks, 2015, Terrorism -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, University of California -- Investigations, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

DANA PERINO, THE FIVE SHOW CO-HOST: A Fox News alert, breaking news. Overseas, a key suspect in November's Paris attack was captured alive today in Brussels. A total of five [...]

Published
2016

28. An attack on Muslims in London is exactly what ISIS wanted

Author

Noack, Rick

Subjects
Terrorism -- Investigations, Islamophobia -- Social aspects, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Rick Noack As London woke up to the news that yet another vehicle had collided with pedestrians in their city early Monday morning, there were indications that the incident [...]

Published
2017

29. 'They look at our children as monsters, and they're not,' argues mom of ISIS fighter

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Family, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.pri.org/sites/default/files/segment-audio/12302015_01.mp3 What leads a young person, living what seems to be a 'normal everyday life' in the West, to join an extremist group? [...]

Published
2015

30. ISIS and al-Qaeda squabble like schoolboys

Subjects
Terrorist organizations -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Al-Qaeda -- Social aspects, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.pri.org/sites/default/files/segment-audio/11092015_07.mp3 In September, al-Qaeda told ISIS its leader couldn't run a Caliphate. In October, ISIS fired back: 'Your boss is senile ... and [...]

Published
2015

31. Why my fascination with 'jihadi brides' hits close to home

Subjects
Teenage girls -- Social aspects, Islamic militants -- Social aspects, Brides -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Until the stories about Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe pushed them off the front page, I could not stop reading the articles about the young western women who flirt with [...]

Published
2015

32. Minneapolis To Unveil Plan That Counters U.S. Recruiting By ISIS

Subjects
Antiterrorism measures, Somalis -- Aims and objectives, Youth services -- Aims and objectives, General interest, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=438797658 INSKEEP: Counterterrorism officials have been trying to prevent the self-described Islamic State from recruiting Americans. And later today, officials in Minneapolis, Minn. [...]

Published
2015

33. Islamic State Militants Target More Ancient Ruins In Syria

Subjects
Ancient cities -- Social aspects, Tombs -- Destruction, General interest, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=437460932 MONTAGNE: And the Islamic State has targeted more priceless ruins in Syria. Syria's antiquities director says the group has now destroyed three [...]

Published
2015

34. The mothers of ISIS are often left to wonder what happened

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Family, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.pri.org/sites/default/files/segment-audio/08202015_04.mp3 There's been a lot in the news lately about the Western men and women who leave home to travel to Syria and [...]

Published
2015

35. Britain Tries To Counter Extremists' Appeal

Subjects
Antiterrorism measures -- Planning, Terrorists -- Social aspects, Company business planning, General interest, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=389454397 WERTHEIMER: Britain has been dealing with the challenge of radicalized young citizens for decades. And there is always a tension between protecting [...]

Published
2015

36. Police In Sweden Get A Call About ISIS Party

Subjects
Terrorist organizations -- Social aspects, General interest, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=389177454 MONTAGNE: Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne with news from the department of you can't be too careful. Police in the town of [...]

Published
2015

37. ISIS destroyed almost half of an ancient city in Syria

Author

Tharoor, Ishaan

Subjects
Antiquities -- Destruction, Historic sites -- Destruction, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor The Islamic State has looted or destroyed a considerable portion of the Tal Ajaja archaeological site in northeastern Syria, according to Agence France-Presse. Khaled Ahmo, director of [...]

Published
2016

38. Police officer for D.C. subway system accused of trying to help ISIS

Author

Weiner, Rachel

Subjects
Terrorism -- Cases, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Rachel Weiner WASHINGTON - For seven years, while Nicholas Young patrolled the Washington area's Metro system as a transit police officer, other law enforcement agents were watching him. In [...]

Published
2016

39. Police officer for D.C. subway system accused of trying to help ISIS

Author

Weiner, Rachel

Subjects
Terrorism -- Cases, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Rachel Weiner WASHINGTON - For seven years, while Nicholas Young patrolled the Washington, D.C., area's subway system as a transit police officer, other law enforcement agents were watching him. [...]

Published
2016

40. Police officer for D.C. subway system accused of trying to help ISIS

Author

Weiner, Rachel

Subjects
Conspiracy -- Cases, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Rachel Weiner WASHINGTON - A Metro Transit police officer has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, marking the first time a [...]

Published
2016

42. Family of Paris victim sues social networks

Author

Guynn, Jessica

Subjects
Paris Attacks, 2015, Terrorism -- Cases, Online information services -- Cases, Company legal issue, Online information service, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Jessica Guynn, @jguynn, USA TODAY The family of a California college student killed in November's terrorist attacks in Paris is suing Facebook, Google and Twitter, alleging the companies provided [...]

Published
2016

43. Amateur vs. ISIS: An Online Sleuth Lands in Jail

Author

Shane, Scott

Subjects
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Powers and duties, Antiterrorism measures -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Islamic militants -- Social aspects, Hostage negotiations -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects, Twitter (Online social network) -- Usage
Abstract

WYOMING, Del. -- By his own account, Toby Lopez was a supremely ordinary guy. He sold Toyotas and lived with his mother in a tidy rancher here with a cherry [...]

Published
2016

44. Militants Profit From Looting of Antiquities

Author

Myers, Steven Lee and Kulish, Nicholas

Subjects
Smuggling -- Investigations, Antiquities -- Investigations, Ancient cities -- Crimes against, Theft of relics -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

CORRECTION APPENDEDSHUMEN, Bulgaria -- Acting on a tip, the police raided four homes in eastern Bulgaria, looking for contraband that regularly traverses this country on the way to markets in [...]

Published
2016

45. Have ISIS And Al-Qaida Stopped Fighting, Started Cooperating?

Subjects
Al-Qaeda -- Social aspects, Islamic State -- Social aspects, Terrorist organizations -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=364138319 CORNISH: There are reports out of Syria that the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaida may have worked out a truce. If true, that […]

Published
2014

46. Anti-ISIS Satire Lampoons Militant Group's Hypocrisy

Subjects
Islamic State -- Social aspects, Islamic militants -- Social aspects, Satire -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=363101475 CORNISH: Throughout the day, you've been hearing this headline about ISIS - U.S. airstrikes targeted key commanders of the militant extremist group over […]

Published
2014

47. US: Islamic State's ability to fund terror through oil diminishing

Author

Copp, Tara

Subjects
Terrorist organizations -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Tara Copp WASHINGTON - Islamic State militants control 80 percent of the oil in Syria, but they have lost all of their oil-producing capability in Iraq, a senior U.S. [...]

Published
2015

48. Hillary Clinton wants tech companies to help 'disrupt' ISIS, but what does that mean?

Author

Fung, Brian and Peterson, Andrea

Subjects
High technology industry -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Presidential candidates -- Science and technology policy -- Political activity, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Brian Fung and Andrea Peterson WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called on tech companies Sunday to help 'disrupt' the Islamic State online in the wake of last [...]

Published
2015

49. How to stop an ISIS radical? Know where they're coming from

Author

Schouten, Lucy

Subjects
Islamic militants -- Social aspects, American Muslims -- Political activity, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

Byline: Lucy Schouten Al Qaeda has fallen to second place for popularity in the United States, as the Islamic State militant group has skillfully employed social media to appeal to [...]

Published
2015

50. Spotty Intelligence Prompts U.S. Caution in Assessing Cause of Jet Crash

Author

Mazzetti, Mark

Subjects
Aircraft accidents -- Investigations, Terrorism -- Investigations, Intelligence gathering, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Islamic State -- Social aspects
Abstract

WASHINGTON -- The United States has spent billions over the past 14 years improving its ability to gather intelligence across the globe, much of that money intended to ensure that [...]

Published
2015

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