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Egyptian Court Adds Almost 300 MB Members to Terror List
September 01, 2017
Cairo's Criminal Court ruled that 296 pro-Muslim Brotherhood (MB) defendants who confessed to violence against Egyptian state facilities and civilians must be placed on the country's terror list, as part of the Egyptian government's effort to rein in terrorism perpetrated by Islamist organizations like the MB and by Islamic State sympathizers operating in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Grand Jury Indicts Turkish Security for DC Violence
September 01, 2017
A US grand jury has indicted 19 people, including 15 members of the security detail during the Turkish President's visit to Washington, DC, for felony charges of conspiracy to commit violence, in the aftermath of attacks by the security team against peaceful demonstrators protesting human rights violations by the Islamist government in Turkey.
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French President: Islamist Terrorism Is Top Security Priority
September 01, 2017
French President Emmanuel Macron told his country's ambassador corps that the eradication of Islamist terrorism is the top foreign and security priority for his administration, emphasizing that French diplomats must understand that it is the ideology of Islamism, distinct from "Islam and Islamic," which constitutes an existential threat to France's security.
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Jihadists Use Syria-Turkey Border as Recruitment Base
August 31, 2017
A constellation of Salafist-al-Qaeda jihadists known as the "Organization for the Liberation of the Levant" has degraded Islamic State (IS) control in Syria's Idlib Province bordering Turkey and is now threatening to make this crucial geopolitical space a jihadist recruitment base for projection of Islamist ideology and violence into the Mideast and Europe.
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Facebook Blocks Ads from Pages Promoting "Fake News"
August 31, 2017
As part of efforts toward "building a more informed community on Facebook," the social media site has announced that it will block advertisements from pages that repeatedly share news deemed "fake" by third-party fact-checkers.
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