Islamic State

Residents topple a statue of a female Kurdish fighter after the takeover of the town by Syrian government forces from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Tabqa, eastern Syria, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Girls walk through the halls of the children center where they live, which provides a variety of activities for children, northeastern Syria, June 26, 2024. Children at the center include some born to formerly captured Yazidi women. While the Yazidi community has embraced mothers kidnapped by Islamic State group militants, the fate of children born to the women after their capture proved much more contentious. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," read a news article about themselves during an interview with AP at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. Their terror cell is believed to have captured, tortured and killed hostages including American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers. (AP Photo / Hussein Malla)

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2017 file photo, a blindfolded suspected Islamic State militant stands against a wall at a Kurdish screening center in Dibis, Iraq. An analysis by the Associated Press of a spreadsheet listing all 27,849 people imprisoned in Iraq as of late January 2018, shows that Iraq has detained or imprisoned more than 19,000 people accused of connections to IS or other terror-related offenses. More than 3,000 people have been sentenced to death. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen, File)

For more than three years, he was known only as Mosul Eye, an anonymous blogger documenting Islamic StateÕs atrocities. Now Iraq's Omar Mohammed, shown in Europe, Dec. 5, 2017, wants the world Ð and his family Ð to know his identity. (AP Photo)