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Jammu and Kashmir: Muslims take 12-year-old boy hostage and kill him despite mother’s appeal “Atif and his uncle, Abdul Hameed, were abducted when the family tried to flee the house as security forces cordoned off the area.” The jihadis apparently thought that by fleeing, they were siding with unbelievers against the believers, and therefore the boy could lawfully be taken hostage and killed. “J&K: 12-year-old boy held hostage, killed despite mother’s appeal to militants,” by Adil Akhzer, Indian Express, March 23, 2019: A 12-year-old boy held hostage in Bandipora for around nine hours was killed Friday by militants before they...

US forces are reportedly evacuating their military base near al-Hasakah; The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) still press their operation against ISIS in the Hajin pocket.

Fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have broken into Hajin, an eastern holdout of ISIS on the Iraqi border, a commander told Agence France Presse... "Heavy clashes are ongoing inside the town of Hajin, after our forces advanced inside and started to control some of its neighborhoods," Redur Khalil told AFP... In almost three months of battle, more than 820 extremists and more than 480 US-backed fighters have been killed.

BEIRUT — Just like Kurdish officials and their allies in Syria hid intelligence information related to the Beatles terrorist cell which slaughters foreigners, and which the Syrian Democratic Forces held two of its members since the beginning of this year, they once again abstain from revealing the whereabouts or fate of Daesh (the so-called IS) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. A prominent Kurdish official commented in a British news report that the Syrian Democratic Forces managed to locate Baghdadi and monitor him. He told Al Arabiya English that what was published “is a mere intelligence piece of information that was conveyed...