Charges were filed in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Monday against the Iraqi wife of a high-ranking Islamic State official accused of holding Kayla Mueller hostage in Syria. Widow of former top Islamic State leader is charged in the death of Kayla Mueller https://t.co/pGjUj4ihEV pic.twitter.com/7PZDKoCwaL — BBC News US (@BBCNewsUS) February 9, 2016 Mueller, an aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, was abducted from Damascus, Syria, in 2013.