Kayla Mueller moved to Turkey in 2012 to help Syrian refugees who had fled the country’s brutal civil war.
“Syrians are dying by the thousands, and they’re fighting just to talk about the rights we have,” Mueller told The Daily Courier, a local paper in her hometown of Prescott, Arizona, in May 2013. “For as long as I live, I will not let this suffering be normal.”
On Friday, the Islamic State militant group claimed that an American woman it was holding hostage, whom the group identified as Mueller, had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike on Raqqa, Syria.
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Kayla Mueller in a 2007 photo from The Daily Courier in Prescott, Arizona.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
