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the start of a campaign of airstrikes against ISIS positions in Iraq.

The group is currently holding Mr. Henning and another British citizen, as well as two other American aid workers.

ISIS warned that the hostages would die if relatives made their identities public.

“We don’t pay ransoms to terrorists when they kidnap our citizens.”

two dozen foreigner

The BBC reported that imams across Scotland, where Mr. Haines’s parents live, called for the release of Mr. Haines and other hostages during Friday Prayer last week.

with its own military called the Peshmerga

Kurdistan

Kirkuk is the gateway to Iraq's oil fields.

the American air campaign means ISIS can't mass its forces or move with any speed.

Thanks to the U.S. airstrikes, the Peshmerga are now on the offensive

moving toward Mosul which is an occupied city of more than a million and a half people.

The Kurds are asking the White House for tanks and artillery, to break lines like this.

Electricity only shows up once every two days.

shortage of medicine.

"They control life, clothing, everything in a very harsh way, very strict and very strict punishments," he said.

posting those punishments online

"When I was hit, I didn't want to make a sound because anyone who made a noise, they'd come over and shoot them in the head," he said.

Mosul is like a big prison with limited water and gas,"

War is like a bridge - once you're on it, you can't get off until you see it through.

But one of the biggest source of recruits is neighboring Turkey, a NATO member with an undercurrent of Islamist discontent.

Recruits cite the group’s ideological appeal to disaffected youths as well as the money it pays fighters from its flush coffers.

Turkey declined to sign a communiqué last Thursday that committed a number of regional states to take “appropriate” new measures to counter ISIS, frustrating American officials.

Hacibayram, a ramshackle neighborhood in the heart of Ankara’s tourist district, has morphed into an ISIS recruitment hub over the past year. Locals say up to 100 residents have gone to fight for the group in Syria.

Children have started to spend more time online since the municipality knocked down the only school in the area last year as part of an aggressive urban renewal project.

“There are now seven mosques in the vicinity, but not one school,”

When a young Syrian girl walked past them, they pounced on her, knocking her to the floor and pushing their toy rifles against her head. “I’m going to kill you, whore,” one of the boys shouted before launching into sound effects that imitated a machine gun.The other boy quickly lost interest and walked away. “Toys are so boring,” he said. “I have real guns upstairs.”

The boy’s father, who owns a nearby market, said he fully supported ISIS’s vision for Islamic governance and hoped to send the boy and his other sons to Raqqa when they are older.

“ISIS is brutal,” he said. “They interpret the Quran for their own gains. God never ordered Muslims to kill Muslims.”

Still, he said many were drawn to the group for financial reasons, as it appealed to disadvantaged youth in less prosperous parts of Turkey. “When you fight, they offer $150 a day. Then everything else is free,” he said. “Even the shopkeepers give you free products out of fear.”

At the same time, a 10-year-old boy lingered in his family’s shop, laughing at the crowd rushing to get a glimpse of the two leaders. He had just listened to a long lecture from his father celebrating ISIS’ recent beheading of James Foley, an American journalist. “He was an agent and deserved to die,” the man told his son, half-smirking through his thick beard.To which the boy replied, “Journalists, infidels of this country; we’ll kill them all.”