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IS Targets NATO Convoy Near US Embassy in Kabul
May 08, 2017
The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing attack with multiple civilian casualties after the IS perpetrator targeted a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) convoy passing the US Embassy in the Afghan capital city of Kabul.
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US Report Identifies Risk of Islamist Truck Terror Attacks
May 08, 2017
The Transportation Security Administration has released a report that assesses rising threat levels associated with the use of trucks by Islamic State (IS) actors directed by IS leadership to use vehicles to perpetrate lethal jihadi attacks inside America and other Western countries.
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Families of Terror Victims Sue Internet Giants
May 08, 2017
Families of the victims of the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attacks perpetrated by Islamic State (IS) sympathizers have filed a lawsuit in US courts against Facebook, Google, and Twitter, charging that the social media behemoths provide a de facto platform and material support for the propagation of Islamist radicalization, recruitment, and violence.
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Moroccan King's Political Moves Spark Islamist Blowback
May 08, 2017
Rising sociopolitical tensions after recent moves by Morocco's King Mohammed VI to shift the balance of power within the country's mainstreamed Islamist party, the Justice and Development Party (PJD), suggest signs of blowback in the form of radicalization within the PJD and intensified activism by the banned, anti-monarchist Islamist movement, al-Adl wal-Ihsan (AWI).
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UK Legislators Push for Online "Hate Speech" Fines
May 03, 2017
The UK House of Commons' home affairs committee has published a report calling for the government to criminalize the failure of social media companies to remove "hate speech" from their platforms and to impose substantial fines on such companies to cover the costs to police of removing "illegal" and extremist content.
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