US woman pleads guilty to leading ISIS battalion
The US Courthouse is seen in Alexandria, Virginia, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. A woman who once lived in Kansas has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining ISIS and leading an all-female battalion of AK-47 wielding militants.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, from Kansas, has pleaded guilty to organizing and leading an all-female military battalion on behalf of ISIS. According to court documents, Fluke-Ekren trained women on to how to use assault rifles, grenades and suicide belts. And in Brazil, journalist Dom Phillips and anthropologist Bruno Pereira have gone missing from one of the largest Indigenous territories in the Amazon rainforest. It’s an area that, in recent years, has become increasingly dangerous because of illegal logging, mining and narcotrafficking. Plus, as “Nanook of the North” turns 100, we hear from an American filmmaker who returned to Inukjuak to examine what has happened to the community over the past century.
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