1 | Umm Sayyaf, wife of the Islamic State's head of oil operations Abu Sayyaf, was in U.S. custody since May 15. |
2 | There have been suggestions that she and her husband were the captors of American hostage Kayla Mueller, who was believed held in Syria. |
3 | Mueller was killed while being held prisoner. |
4 | Islamic State militants have claimed she died in a Jordanian airstrike, but U.S. and other officials have cast doubt on that assertion. |
5 | Mueller, who was from Prescott, Arizona, and her Syrian boyfriend were taken hostage in August 2013 after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria. |
6 | The boyfriend was later released. |
7 | U.S. officials have said Umm Sayyaf, an Iraqi, was cooperative while being detained by the U.S. in Irbil. |
8 | They said she provided a "trove" of intelligence about Islamic State operations. |
9 | She was transferred to the custody of Kurdish officials in Iraq. |
10 | Abu Sayyaf was killed during a U.S. Army Delta Force raid on a compound in Syria. |
11 | He was the head of oil operations for the Islamic State. |