Alexanda Kotey

Former ISIS member is found guilty in US federal court

April 15, 2022Justice

El Shafee Elsheikh, a former British citizen 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.

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Six people injured in New Zealand in ISIS-inspired attack

September 3, 2021Top of The World

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British national pleads guilty to role in terror beheadings

September 3, 2021Extremism

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