U.S. Charges Wife of Deceased ISIL Leader in Death of U.S. Citizen Aid Worker in Syria

On February 8, 2016, the U.S. Attorney in Alexandria, Virginia brought a criminal complaint against Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, also known as Umm Sayyaf, 25, an Iraqi citizen and wife of Abu Sayyaf, a senior leader within the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), until his death last year, for her role in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of U.S. citizen Kayla Jean Mueller, a human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker who was taken captive in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, while leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital.