Jordan challenges ISIS claim of U.S. hostage death in airstrike

AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) - Was an American hostage held in Syria killed by a Jordanian airstrike? That's what ISIS said in an online posting Friday, claiming that she died in the group's de facto capital,... Read More

URGENT - Jordan ISIS US Hostage Claim

(CNN) -- "This is another PR stunt by ISIS," Jordanian Interior Minister Hussein Majali said Friday about ISIS's claim that a female American hostage had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike on Raqqa,... Read More

URGENT - US ISIS Hostage Claim

(CNN) -- The United States is looking into ISIS's claims that a female American hostage was killed in an airstrike in Raqqa, Syria, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Friday. "I cannot confi... Read More

URGENT - ISIS American Hostage Claim

(CNN) -- ISIS claimed in an online posting that a female American hostage had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike on Raqqa, Syria, on Friday. The posting showed a picture of a collapsed building in w... Read More

A battle for the soul of Islam

CAIRO (CNN) - The actions of the Islamic State are anything but Islamic, and Muslims must battle extremism to maintain the religion's message of mercy, the grand mufti of Egypt told CNN. Sheikh Shaw... Read More

ISIS putting price tags on Iraqi children, selling them as slaves, U.N. says

(CNN) - ISIS has stepped up the use of children in its bloody campaign of terror, the United Nations says -- subjecting them horrors that include putting price tags on them to sell as slaves. A rep... Read More

Terror trainee who faked his death sentenced to 12 years, police say

(CNN) - Imran Khawaja left London to train with a terror group in Syria last year and rose in the ranks, eventually appearing in one of its online promotional videos holding a severed head to the cam... Read More

URGENT - UK Syria Terror Sentence

(CNN) -- A London man who authorities say attended a terror training camp in Syria and then faked his death in a failed attempt to conceal his return to the United Kingdom was sentenced Friday to 12 y... Read More

URGENT - TransAsia Pilot Exams

(CNN) -- TransAsia pilots that fly ATR aircraft are being ordered to take written and oral exams within the next four days, a TransAsia representative told CNN on Friday, two days after a TransAsia Ai... Read More

A son, husband, national hero; slain pilot unites Jordan

KARAK, Jordan (CNN) - Since ISIS announced it burned a captured Jordanian pilot to death, his country has mourned him as a martyr, but his family has mourned him as a son, a cousin. Moath al-Kasasbe... Read More