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Footage filmed in December last year shows an intense first-person perspective of what it's like to be an Islamic State fighter. Rough cut - subtitled (no reporter narration).
The mother of slain journalist James Foley, Diane Foley, says the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation welcomes the life sentence for El Shafee Elsheikh after the member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria. "With today's verdict we finally have a bit of justice," she says outside the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. SOUNDBITE
Kurdish Peshermerga forces say they have liberated some 20 villages from Islamic State control outside Mosul, although the militants release video to say they remain in control of the city itself, ftheir last bastion in Iraq. Mana Rabiee reports.
Footage courtesy fo @Harp-detective shows Crowds of people running away from the scene of an attack in Nice on Thursday, after a truck drove through a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day, killing at least 84 people and injuring scores others. The driver, a 31-year-old French citizen of Tunisian origin, was killed after police shot him through the windshield.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).