The New York Times reports that the U.S. citizen was known as Douglas McAuthur McCain. McCain seems to have lived what seemed like the average life of a U.S. teenager before suddenly joining the jihadists of the Islamic State.
The government of Qatar is using its close relationships with radical Islamist groups throughout the Middle East in an effort to free a number of U.S. citizens who are currently being held hostage.
President Barack Obama has authorized surveillance flights over Syrian territory, the first step in the process of launching airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria.
A new report suggests that the Islamic State knew of the impending U.S. Special Forces operation to rescue the murdered journalist James Foley before they had even parachuted into Syrian territory.
In early summer 2014, United States Special Forces soldiers carried out a failed operation to try to rescue journalist James Foley and others from Islamic State captivity.
The Islamic State has continued its lightening expansion throughout Syria and Iraq, claiming new territory in Syria along the Turkish border, while the United Nations estimates that the Islamic State controls Iraqi territory where 40 percent of Iraq's wheat is grown.
The first confirmed American suicide bomber in the Syrian Civil War was able to return to the United States for months before he carried out his final deadly mission on behalf of the al-Qaida aligned Nusra Front.
The Islamic State has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, ordering that all women in the city of Mosul undergo female genital mutilation.
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