Headline Roundup February 10, 2015
ISIS Kills Aid Worker
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Administration officials and lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday condemned the killing of Kayla Jean Mueller -- a 26-year-old American aid worker who had been held hostage by Islamic State militants -- calling it a βbarbaricβ act and βan unspeakably ugly insult to the civilized world.β
βISIL, and ISIL alone, is the reason Kayla is gone,β Secretary of State John Kerry said in a written statement. βLike our friends in Jordan, our resolve is unshaken to defeat this vile and unspeakably ugly insult to the civilized world and to defeat...
Kayla Jean Mueller, the last American hostage known to be held by Islamic State extremists, was confirmed dead by her relatives and the White House on Tuesday.
Ms. Muellerβs parents said they received confirmation of her death, but they didnβt provide further details of the circumstances. The Islamic State extremist group said she was killed in a Jordanian airstrike in Syria, but U.S. and Jordanian officials have been skeptical of the claim. Last Friday, her family said they believed she could still be alive and had asked her captors to...
The parents of an American woman held by the Islamic State group said in a statement on Tuesday that they have been notified of her death.
The White House said Kayla Jean Mueller's family received a message from her captors over the weekend, which was authenticated by the U.S. intelligence community, the Associated Press reports.
On Friday, the Islamic State group released a statement claiming Mueller had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike in Raqqa, Syria. The Jordanian government said later that it was "hig
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