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Jillian Melchior By Jillian Melchior Iraqi high school senior Hengi Abdullah and her best friend Sara* couldn’t wait to become teachers after graduation and share a classroom someday. “Always we were together,” Hengi tells me. We have a lot of respect for each other — anything she asked, I would do, and she would do the same for me.” Related: These Remarkable Women Are Fighting ISIS But their happy youth was changed forever when the Islamic State — a Sunni radical terrorist organization also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Da’ash, with an estimated 30,000 members — marauded its way across Iraq and Syria, gaining a reputation for extreme violence. Related: Malala Yousafzai Wins Nobel Peace Prize The horror of the Islamic State’s warpath became evident to the Western world when they released videos of masked, English-speaking extremists preparing to behead two captured American journalists, James Foley in August and Steven Sotloff two weeks later.