IS widow charged over US hostage death

The widow of a former senior leader in the Islamic State
(IS) group has been charged with conspiracy in the death
of a US hostage, US authorities said.
Kayla Mueller was abducted when working in Aleppo, Syria
and died last year.
The woman charged - 25-year-old Nisreen Assad Ibrahim
Bahar, known as Umm Sayyaf - is currently in Iraqi
custody.
Prosecutors say Sayyaf kept Ms Mueller captive, allowing
her to be repeatedly raped by IS chief Abu Bakr al-
Baghdadi.
Who was Kayla Mueller?
Nisreen Bahar's husband, Abu Sayyaf, is described in an
affidavit as IS minister for oil and gas, reporting directly to
Baghdadi.
Abu Sayyaf died last May when his compound in Syria was
raided by US special forces.
His widow was handed over to the Iraqi authorities for
prosecution.
A US justice department statement said they supported
the prosecution but would "continue to pursue justice for
Kayla".
"We will always be relentless in our efforts to identify,
locate and arrest those who are responsible for the
kidnappings and murders of American citizens," said the
FBI's Assistant Director in Charge, Paul Abbate.
Mueller had travelled to Syria as an aid worker when she
was kidnapped in 2013.