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The parents of Kayla Jean Mueller have released a letter their daughter had written to them while being held by the Islamic State group. In it, the 26-year-old aid worker said she was ``in a safe location, completely unharmed.'' Mueller also tells her parents she is ``fighting'' and has ``a lot of fight left inside...

The White House is confirming the death of American aid worker Kayla Jean Mueller.

ISIS is claiming to have executed a Jordanian pilot by burning him alive. The terrorist group has released a video that purportedly includes photos of the pilot's savage murder. The images show a man in a cage which is then set on fire...

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are telling American soldiers to scrub their social media accounts. Federal officials issued a warning to US troops this week, urging them to scrub their online accounts of information that Islamic State militants can use against them...

A Kurdish official and activists say extremists from the Islamic State group have launched an attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey _ a first in the ongoing siege. Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria's powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party, says Islamic State group militants in Turkey attacked the border crossing point that links the country to Kobani...

An Islamic State group video released Sunday purports to show extremists beheading a dozen Syrian soldiers and ends with a militant claiming to have killed U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, the latest slaughter proudly broadcast by the group on the Internet...

President Obama is authorizing deployment of up to 15-hundred additional U.S. troops to Iraq. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby called it an ongoing, non-combat role. The move effectively doubles the U.S. advisory mission to help combat ISIS...

U.S. authorities believe three American teenage girls from suburban Denver may have been trying to join Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Syria. AP cited a U.S. official as saying that it's clear that the girls, 17- and 15-year-old sisters of Somali descent and their 16-year-old friend of Sudanese descent, were heading for Syria, but they are still trying to find out what kind of contacts they had

ISIS is claiming to have possession of weapons airdropped in Syria by the U.S. An ISIS-associated YouTube account posted a video Tuesday showing ISIS fighters in possession of American hand grenades, rounds for small rockets, and other supplies...

Retired General John Allen is citing progress in the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Allen is President Obama's special diplomatic envoy for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS. In a briefing at the State Department, Allen said all members of the coalition have different and vital roles to play...