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World / Crime & Legal Mar 11, 2015

Frenchman gets three years for helping girl of 14 to go to Syria to marry Islamic State fighter

A French court sentenced a man on Tuesday to three years in jail for helping a 14-year-old girl who wanted to travel to Syria to marry an Islamic State fighter there. The sentencing underscored how French authorities are cracking down not only on volunteer jihadis ...

World Jan 26, 2015

Morocco arrests suspected Algerian militant tied to Frenchman's beheading

Moroccan authorities said on Sunday they arrested a suspected Algerian member of the militant group responsible for kidnapping and beheading French tourist Herve Gourdel east of Algiers in September. An al-Qaida splinter group known as Caliphate Soldiers kidnapped Gourdel when he was hiking in the ...