White House: US hostage Mueller's captors sent message to her family
WASHINGTON - US aid worker and hostage Kayla Mueller was determined to have died after her Islamic State captors reached out privately to her family over the weekend, a White House spokeswoman said on Tuesday."Over the weekend, the family received a private message from Kayla@@@s ISIL captors containing additional information," spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said, using an acronym for Islamic State."Once this information was authenticated by the intelligence community, they concluded that Kayla was deceased."ByREUTERS06/08/2025 07:57 AMByREUTERS06/08/2025 05:36 AMByMAARIV06/07/2025 02:33 PMByWALLA!06/07/2025 11:18 AMByREUTERS06/07/2025 03:25 AM