Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Islamic State trying to keep people in Raqqa as human shields

Lori Hinnant, terrorism correspondent, Paris, and Bassem Mroue, reporter, Beirut, for the first extensive look into what is going on inside Raqqa ahead of the U.S.-backed assault on the Islamic State group’s de facto capital, revealing in particular the extent to which the militants are holding the population hostage. http://apne.ws/2p9m2l0

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