IS Silent as Hostage Deadline Passes Without Swap

The families of a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian pilot continue to await word on their fate as yet another deadline for a possible prisoner swap passed with no further word from the Islamic State group holding the men hostage. An audio message purportedly from the journalist, Kenji Goto, said the pilot, Mu'ath al-Kasaesbeh, would be killed "immediately" unless Jordan released by sunset Thursday Sajida al-Rishawi, an Iraqi woman on death row in Jordan for her role in a...

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