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U.S. Aid Worker Peter Kassig Beheaded by Islamic State
(Los Angeles Times) Patrick J. McDonnell and Katherine Skiba - Islamic State militants have beheaded Peter Kassig, 26, a U.S. aid worker and former Army Ranger who was captured last year in Syria, the White House confirmed Sunday. U.S. officials authenticated a 16-minute video released earlier in the day. The video also includes footage of the mass beheading of men said to be Syrian government soldiers. President Obama condemned the killing as an "act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity." Kassig adopted the Arabic name Abdul-Rahman after converting to Islam while in custody, his family said. Islamic State demonstrated that it represented no faith, Obama said, "least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own."