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Exclusive: ‘Jihadi Jack’ parents speak out on attempts to bring him home
The parents of the young British man known as ‘Jihadi Jack’ have spoken to exclusively to Channel 4 News about seeing their son in a TV interview from his Kurdish jail.
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Alleged IS fighter ‘Jihadi Jack’ wants to return to UK
The alleged British Islamic State fighter known as Jihadi Jack has said he wants to come home. Speaking from a prison in northern Syria, Jack Letts, who is originally from Oxford, said he wants to face trial back in the UK. It comes just days after the British teenager Shamima Begum was stripped of her…
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Jeremy Corbyn hits out at decision to strip Shamima Begum of British citizenship
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has criticised the decision to strip British citizenship from the teenager Shamima Begum – who went to Syria to join the militant Islamic State group – saying she should be allowed back to the country to face questioning. Her family still hope to bring her newborn baby to live with them in the UK. While in…
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Shamima Begum stripped of her UK citizenship
It’s emerged that the London teenager Shamima Begum, who went to Syria to join the militant Islamic State group, will have her British citizenship revoked by the Home Secretary.
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Dispute over Jihadi brides returning to the UK
The Home Secretary has said he wouldn’t hesitate to stop UK recruits to the Islamic State group from returning to Britain.
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Western-backed militia in Syria fights ‘final battle’ with IS
Almost five years after the militant Islamic State group’s first brutal surge across Iraq and Syria, its self-declared caliphate is almost at an end.
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Series 2, Episode 17: Sayeeda Warsi
Sayeeda Warsi was the first Muslim woman to serve in British Cabinet. She was appointed to the House of Lords in 2007 and resigned from the Cabinet in 2014 over the Conservative Party’s policy towards the Israeli Gaza conflict. She talks to Krishnan about wanting an inquiry into Islamophobia in the Tory Party, why she…
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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters reveals how boys were rescued from Syria
Two young boys from Trinidad have been reunited with the mother they haven’t seen for four years and flown out of north-east Syria where they’d been in Kurdish custody.
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On the trail of women ‘lured to ISIS-territory’ from the UK and elsewhere
Thousands of fighters have been killed and thousands are on the run, most recently after the Kurdish forces captured the town of Al-Shafa. But what is happening to the women from around the world who say they travelled there in the promise of a pure Islamic life? Some volunteered. Others say they were duped.
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Gunmen storm Nairobi hotel complex
Gunmen have blasted their way into a hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. There are reports of at least seven deaths, but no official confirmation yet. Witnesses said two cars were driven at speed into the complex at around 3pm after shots were fired at security guards at its gates. The Somali Islamist…
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Pulling US troops from Syria is conditional, says Bolton
Could we be seeing a U-turn on President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from the fight against Islamic State forces in Syria? The White House’s most senior security adviser John Bolton certainly appeared to apply the brakes by saying that Turkey has to first give assurances not to turn on Kurdish forces who have fought with the US military…
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Syrian activist Raed Fares shot dead in Idlib
An influential Syrian activist, who took on both the regime of Bashar al-Assad and Islamist forces, has been murdered. Gunmen shot Raed Fares and a colleague in Kafr Nabl, a town in the south of Idlib province, the only remaining rebel-held enclave in Syria.
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Radical preacher Anjem Choudary released from prison
The radical preacher Anjem Choudary is now in a London probation hostel after being released from prison. He was jailed in 2016 on charges of inviting support for the militant Islamic State group. He’ll be subject to a strict supervision regime, including electronic tagging, a night-time curfew, restricted use of the internet or mobile phone, and not…
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Westminster attacker ‘told children he was going to die fighting for God’
The man who killed five people in the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in March last year had told his children he had dreamt he was “going to die fighting for God”.
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Muslim convert admits Oxford Street terror plot
A Muslim convert who swore allegiance to the extremist Islamic state group has admitted plotting to kill up to a hundred people in a terror attack in London’s Oxford Street.
