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Federal prosecutors filed charges Monday against an Iraqi woman accused of taking hostage an American aid worker who was killed last year in Syria.
The Iraqi woman, known as Umm Sayyaf, or Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, was captured in May in a US commando raid in eastern Syria. Her husband, an senior Islamic State terrorist was killed in the assault.
Sayyaf was charged with conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization resulting in death in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
Justice Department officials and federal prosecutors had been debating charges in the case for months.
Authorities believe Sayyaf played a role in the imprisonment of Kayla Mueller, 26, an American woman from Prescott, Ariz., who was repeatedly abused and raped by the leader of the Islamic State. Mueller, who was abducted in 2013 after leaving a hospital in Syria, had traveled to the region to help refugees trying to escape civil war.
Woman accused of holding U.S. aid worker hostage in Syria is charged
The Iraqi woman, known as Umm Sayyaf, or Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, was captured in May in a US commando raid in eastern Syria. Her husband, an senior Islamic State terrorist was killed in the assault.
Sayyaf was charged with conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization resulting in death in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
Justice Department officials and federal prosecutors had been debating charges in the case for months.
Authorities believe Sayyaf played a role in the imprisonment of Kayla Mueller, 26, an American woman from Prescott, Ariz., who was repeatedly abused and raped by the leader of the Islamic State. Mueller, who was abducted in 2013 after leaving a hospital in Syria, had traveled to the region to help refugees trying to escape civil war.
Woman accused of holding U.S. aid worker hostage in Syria is charged
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