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El Shafee Elsheikh, a British man accused of taking part in a brutal ISIS hostage-taking scheme, has been convicted in a federal court in Virginia of assisting in the kidnapping and deaths of four Americans between 2012 and 2015. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the trial and what the case could mean for the future prosecution of suspected ISIS members.