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Steven Sotloff

A Kurdish security officer escorts Alexanda Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh
Justice
Former ISIS member is found guilty in US federal court
Mohamed was important in Libyan's revolution, helping to defeat and ultimately capture Muammar Gaddafi. His younger brother missed out on Libya's revolution — so he decided to make his own fame by going to Syria to fight in the violent revolution there.
Global Politics
2014 was the year youth protesters found their voice and hacking became an everyday fear
A masked man speaking in what is believed to be a North American accent in a video that Islamic State militants released in September 2014.
Conflict
ISIS taunts the West in its latest beheading video
President Barack Obama delivering his address to the nation, Wednesday, on his plans for military action against the Islamic State, from the Cross Hall of the White House.
Conflict
Can the US ‘destroy’ ISIS without American ground troops?
Global Scan
These activists swim with sharks and crocodiles so you’ll stop killing them
Michael Bassin, 28, looking at Twitter posts from the extremist group ISIS. Bassin monitored the posts as part of a volunteer effort to ensure there were no mentions online of captured American journalist Steven Sotloff's Jewish and Israeli identity.
Conflict
Murdered journalist Steven Sotloff was Jewish and Israeli — and here’s how his friends tried to cover it up
A militant Islamist fighter waves a flag during in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province.
Conflict
Turkey tries to amp up its border security as the threat from ISIS rises
White House press secretary Josh Earnest
Conflict
An ISIS video appears to show the killing of American journalist Steven Sotloff
American journalist Steven Sotloff in Libya.
Conflict
A friend remembers American journalist Steven Sotloff
A man holds up a knife as he rides on the back of a motorcycle touring the streets of Tabqa in celebration after ISIS militants took over Tabqa air base in Syria, on August 24, 2014.
Conflict
This could be the end of reporting from Syria
A sign outside a shop remembers James Foley in his hometown of Rochester, New Hampshire. Islamic State militants killed the journalist in a brutal videotaped beheading in revenge for US air strikes in Iraq.
Conflict
They’ll never admit it, but many countries pay ransoms to get their hostages back
Journalist James Foley
Conflict
If you’re a kidnapped American hoping for help from the government, ‘that isn’t going to happen’