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IS Members Hunker Down in Turkey to Continue Jihad
December 22, 2017
Reports by Western governments and think tanks indicate that significant numbers of Islamic State (IS) members used the porous border between Syria and Turkey to hunker down in the NATO member-state to await further instructions from dispersed caliphate leadership about the continuation of jihadi activities in the Mideast and Europe.
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IS Propaganda Machine Pushes for Christmas Attacks
December 22, 2017
Islamic State (IS) social media and propaganda sites have been in high gear for the month of December, inciting IS followers to concentrate jihadi efforts against Western culture by attacking American and European soft targets over the Christmas and New Year period.
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Twitter Implements Ban on "Hateful Conduct"
December 20, 2017
The Telegraph reports that, under the tech company's new policy against "hateful conduct and abusive behavior," taking into account users' online and offline actions, Twitter has suspended users associated with white nationalist and anti-Islam groups from its social media platform.
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Experts: Degrade IS Propaganda Machine to Stabilize Iraq
December 20, 2017
Security experts agree that a crucial aspect in the long-term strategic defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq is the permanent degrading of the Islamist extremist group’s robust propaganda machine, including mechanisms to combat IS social media recruitment and a complete overhaul of the jihadi curriculum in Iraq’s public education system.
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OIC Rhetoric on Jerusalem Concedes Israeli Rights
December 20, 2017
Behind the hard-line Islamist rhetoric at last week’s Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) emergency summit on Jerusalem was a significant concession that West Jerusalem is an Israeli territory and a focus on East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state that the bloc views as an entirely Muslim entity that de facto excludes Palestinian Christians.
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