A member of an Islamic State Militant group known as the Beatles was sentenced to life imprisonment. Elsheikh has now been sentenced for the death of four American hostages in Syria in April.

US: I-S group 'Beatles' member sentenced for life, Elsheikh charged of killing journalist

French police arrested two young women from the city of Nice in mid-September for suspected ties to Islamist State militant Rachid Kassim, the Paris prosecutors&#39; office said on Sunday. 
 
Aged 17 and 19, the teenagers used the Telegram encrypted messaging system to communicate with Kassim, who is suspected of having participated in several attacks or attempted attacks in France, a spokesman said, confirming an earlier report by newspaper Le Parisien. 
 
&quot;They were incited to commit an attack on specific targets in retaliation for the recent death of the Islamic State&#39;s spokesman (Abu Muhammad al-Adnani),&quot; a source close to the investigation told Le Parisien. 
 
The two teenagers admitted considering the attack, before abandoning the idea, the daily reported. 
 
At least four other teenagers, all suspected of having plotted to kill in the name of the Islamic State, were arrested in about 10 days in early September by the General Directorate for Internal Security, a French intelligence agency, which spotted the suspects on social networks. 
 
All were in contact via Telegram with Kassim, who is currently located in the Syrian-Iraqi region, according to police and judicial sources. 
 
(Reuters)

The young women used the Telegram app to communicate with Kassim who is suspected of having participated in several attacks against France

French police arrested two young women from the city of Nice in mid-September for suspected ties to Islamist State militant Rachid Kassim, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Sunday. Aged 17 and 19, the teenagers used the Telegram encrypted messaging system to communicate with Kassim, who is suspected of having participated in several attacks or attempted attacks in France, a spokesman said, confirming an earlier report by newspaper Le Parisien. "They were incited to commit an attack on specific targets in retaliation for the recent death of the Islamic State's spokesman (Abu Muhammad al-Adnani)," a source close to the investigation told Le Parisien. The two teenagers admitted considering the attack, before abandoning the idea, the daily reported. At least four other teenagers, all suspected of having plotted to kill in the name of the Islamic State, were arrested in about 10 days in early September by the General Directorate for Internal Security, a French intelligence agency, which spotted the suspects on social networks. All were in contact via Telegram with Kassim, who is currently located in the Syrian-Iraqi region, according to police and judicial sources. (Reuters)

Two French teenagers held for suspected ties to IS militant

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US: I-S group 'Beatles' member sentenced for life, Elsheikh charged of killing journalist

Two French teenagers held for suspected ties to IS militant