The U.S. will hand over to Iraqi authorities nearly 50 Islamic State members who were transferred from Syria in recent days, two Iraqi intelligence officials said Thursday. The officials said the IS members were expected to be handed over by Friday. They spoke on condition ...
Nearly two years after Goto beheading, journalist Tsuneoka asks: Did Tokyo do enough?
Early on the morning of Feb. 1, 2015, Japan woke to the news that Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto, held hostage by Islamic State militants, had been beheaded. Fast-forward two years: Has the Japanese government learned anything from the hostage crisis that claimed two of ...
Play, other events planned to honor murdered journalist Goto
A year has gone by since freelance journalist Kenji Goto was murdered by Islamic State militants, and Goto's friends, still in mourning, are planning various events to pass on his legacy. To commemorate the first anniversary of his death, Sakura Baba, 42, will be staging ...
Islamic State and other radicals must be confronted, contained and destroyed, and how modern societies go about this effort will determine its success or failure.
For father of slain Yukawa, closure remains elusive after killing of 'Jihadi John'
The apparent death of the man known as "Jihadi John," the public face of the self-styled Islamic State, may represent a kind of karma but it doesn't bring closure for the father of one Japanese hostage beheaded nearly a year ago. "It's not to say ...
The Pentagon has conducted an airstrike in Syria targeting “Jihadi John,” the Briton in the hostage videos for Japanese journalist Kenji Goto and several other captives.
Three Spanish freelance journalists who traveled to Syria to report amid the country's long-running civil war have gone missing around the embattled northern city of Aleppo, a Spanish journalism association said Tuesday, the latest ensnared in the world's most dangerous assignment for reporters. The disappearance ...
Passport confiscation policy should remain in place: Foreign Ministry
The government should maintain its policy of confiscating passports of Japanese nationals seeking to enter a foreign country or area controlled by extremists if it would put their life at risk, according to a new Foreign Ministry report. In light of the hostage crisis earlier ...
Goto's mother alleges government inaction led to son's death at hands of Islamic State
The mother of journalist Kenji Goto, who was executed by the Islamic State group in January, has said her son died because of government inaction, contradicting officials' assertions the crisis was handled appropriately. In a statement Friday, Junko Ishido said she was "overcome with anger" ...
A Syrian man held in northern Syria by the Islamic State group has said he was with the two Japanese hostages killed by the militants and delivered food to them in a cell for foreign captives. In an interview, the 45-year-old man, who declined to ...
Syrian deputy minister seeks anti-terrorism cooperation with Japan
Syria's deputy foreign minister proposes that Japan deepen bilateral cooperation to deal with the terrorist threat the Islamic State group poses to the Japanese people.
Islamic State propaganda may be drawing Western coalition into 'holy war'
A month after Islamic State extremists shocked the nation with the cold-blooded murder of two Japanese hostages, the frame of its threat is now becoming clear. Shortly after the execution of Kenji Goto, the group raised the stakes in unspeakable online violent imagery, showing it ...
