This photo provided by U.S. Africa Command, the U.S. military conducts coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia on Saturday. AP/U.S. Africa Command hide caption
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Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014. STR/AP hide caption
A locator map shows Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. The United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country's western desert. /AP hide caption
A photo taken on Oct. 27, 2019, shows the inside of the van that Syrian Barakat Ahmad Barakat says he was in when it was targeted by U.S. forces the night of the raid on an ISIS compound, in northwestern Syria. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Mokdad with the instrument he invented, named "Adad." Ameen Mokdad hide caption
ISIS destroyed his instruments. He made a new one from scraps and composed an album
مقداد مع الآلة الموسيقية التي اخترعها وأطلق عليها اسم «أدد». أمين مقداد hide caption
A woman mourns at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall on Saturday, a day after a gun attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, killed at least 133 people. Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on Nov. 15, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
This photo, taken Oct. 27, 2019, the day after the raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's compound in Syria, shows the van that was targeted by U.S. airstrikes. Photos of the van prompted questions about who was targeted. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Pentagon files reveal flaws in U.S. claims about Syrian casualties in Baghdadi raid
صورة للشاحنة التي أصابتها الغارات الأمريكية بتاريخ 27 أكتوبر 2019 ٬اليوم التالي لعملية البغدادي. صور الشاحنة أثارت التساؤلات حول هوية المُستهدفين. عمر حاج قدور/ AFP via Getty Images hide caption
El Shafee Elsheikh has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of four U.S. hostages captured by the Islamic State. Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP, File hide caption
A photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office in January 2022 shows Allison Fluke-Ekren. Fluke-Ekren, 42, who once lived in Kansas, has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all-female battalion of AK-47 wielding militants. Alexandria Sheriff's Office/AP hide caption
A jury convicted a British national El Shafee Elsheikh for his role in an Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago. Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP hide caption
People check a destroyed house after a U.S. military operation in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, on Thursday. U.S. special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a successful, large-scale counterterrorism raid. Local residents and activists said civilians were also among the dead. Ghaith Alsayed/AP hide caption
Medical and hospital staff carry an injured man on a stretcher for treatment outside the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport after blasts Thursday. U.S. service members and Afghan civilians were among those killed and injured. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
What We Know About ISIS-K, The Group Behind The Kabul Attack
In this March 31, 2019, photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria. Maya Alleruzzo/AP hide caption
Nofa Khudeda (left) and a neighbor in the village of Tel Qasab on the day Khudeda and her husband returned after six years in a camp for displaced Yazidis. Khudeda and her husband, Ali Edo, repaired and renovated the house, which had been looted by ISIS fighters and then militias that fought ISIS. Jane Arraf/NPR hide caption
With No Options, Displaced Iraqi Yazidis Return To Homes Destroyed In ISIS Fight
Khaled Jamal Abdullah after running away from home to pledge allegiance to ISIS and join the militant group as a fighter. He had just turned 16. Jamal Abdullah Naser hide caption
Iraqi Family Identifies Their Son As ISIS Teen At Center Of Navy War Crimes Trial
A woman walks past a wrecked van near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha. Local residents and medical staff told NPR that noncombatant civilians who were in the van were injured and killed last year the night of the U.S. raid on the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The military says the men were combatants but found no weapons. Ibrahim Yasouf/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Pentagon Says 2 Men Killed In Baghdadi Raid Were Combatants But Offers Little Evidence
Kuwait state television announced Tuesday that the country's ruler, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, pictured last year at the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Saudi Arabia, has died. Amr Nabil/AP hide caption
A group solicits funds for weapons by asking for bitcoin, according to the Department of Justice. The Trump administration says al-Qaida and affiliated groups have used such donations to fund terrorism. Department of Justice hide caption
About 200,000 displaced Yazidis are in camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many are waiting for help to rebuild homes damaged or destroyed by ISIS in 2014. Andrea DiCenzo for NPR hide caption
Afghan security personnel take position on the top of a building where insurgents were hiding in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday. The day before, militants attacked a prison holding many ISIS members. Rahmat Gul/AP hide caption
Capt. Alex Quataert points out the areas the soldiers are visiting on the map. Marisa Peñaloza/NPR hide caption