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Islamic State executes Iraqi cameraman
By  • 21 October 2014
The Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) executed a captured Iraqi cameraman Oct. 10 after he refused to work for the militant Islamist group. Raad Mohamed Al-Azaoui, 37, was working as a cameraman for Sama…
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Islamic State threatens to behead Iraqi cameraman
By  • 16 September 2014
Militants from the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) have threatened to behead an Iraqi cameraman kidnapped on Sept. 7. ISIL abducted Raad Mohamed al-Azaoui of Sama Alah Aldeen TV and 20 other Iraqis in…
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Obama vows ISIL response after second US journalist slain
By  • 8 September 2014
President Barack Obama vowed to "degrade and ultimately defeat" the Islamist militant group that has executed two U.S. journalists and posted videos of their beheadings online. Speaking with reporters during a NATO summit in the…
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U.S. journalist executed by Islamist radical group
By , • 20 August 2014
The video that emerged on the Internet Aug. 19 was titled: “A Message to America (from the Islamic State).” A man on his knees dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit was identified as “James Wright…
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