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Turkish soldiers on a tank and Kurdish people look at the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, from a hill at the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southeastern Turkish village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 11, 2014. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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US forces working with Iraqi intelligence and security services killed a high-profile leader of the Islamic State in an airstrike in western Iraq, according to officials from the two countries.
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A man wearing a shirt reading in Arabic, 'Long live Tunisia,' and carrying the French national flag looks at candles, toys and flowers placed in commemoration to victims in front of a pavilion at the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, southeastern France, on October 15, 2016, on the occasion of a national tribute to the victims of the July 14 terror attack in which a truck ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing 86 people and injuring more than 400.
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A man holds roses in the colors of the French national flag at Place de la Republique (Republic Square) in Paris on November 21, 2015 as he arrives to pay tribute to the victims of the November 13 terror attacks. A coordinated wave of attacks on Parisian nightspots claimed by Islamic State group (IS) jihadists killed 130 people.
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FILES) -- A screengrab taken on July 13, 2014, from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau (C). Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria's restive Borno State, near the border with Chad, the head of the fish traders association told AFP on November 25, 2014. "Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders on their way to Chad to buy fish, " Abubakar Gamandi said. AFP PHOTO / BOKO HARAM
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A home destroyed during the attack by Hamas is seen in Kibbutz Be'eri in Israel on October 14.
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Ambulances leave the site of explosion near the grave of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in southern Iran, on January 3.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Defence Ministry, after their meeting in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2023. Blinken arrived in a show of solidarity after Hamas's surprise weekend onslaught in Israel, an AFP correspondent travelling with him reported. He is expected to visit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Washington closes ranks with its ally that has launched a withering air campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defense, after their meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday Oct. 12, 2023. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023.(Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
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This aerial photograph taken on March 8, 2023 shows The Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC.
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Destroyed Humvees used during the war against the Taliban are seen stacked to be sold as scrap metal in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, on June 12, 2023.
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The security of the southern border has been a political sticking point between Republicans and the Biden administration.
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The security of the southern border has been a political sticking point between Republicans and the Biden administration.
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Exclusive: Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico, raising alarm bells across government
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Defendants sit in a specially designed glass box in the courtroom during the start of the Brussels terrorist attack trial verdict being announced in the Palace of Justice building, Brussels, Belgium 25 July 2023. 10 people are on trial for the 2016 terrorist attacks on Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station which resulted in the deaths of 32 people and left hundreds injured. Olivier Matthys/Pool via REUTERS
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An Islamic State flag flies in the northern Syrian town of Tel Abyad as it is pictured from the Turkish border town of Akcakale, in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, June 15, 2015.
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11 January 2023, Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz: The 37-year-old defendant (M) stands between her lawyers in the courtroom of the Higher Regional Court. She is accused of keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave and committing other crimes. The trial against the alleged IS supporter began on Wednesday at the Koblenz Higher Regional Court. (To dpa "Trial begins against suspected IS supporter and slave owner") Photo: Thomas Frey/dpa (Photo by Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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German mother who joined ISIS is jailed for enslaving and abusing young Yazidi woman
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Uganda Police Force Spokesperson Fred Enanga said 25 bodies have been recovered from the school and transferred to Bwera General Hospital.
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Paul Ventura, father of 18-year-old Mateo Ventura, both of Wakefield, Massachusetts, displays a photograph on his cell phone that shows what he describes as a photo of himself (left) and his son Mateo (right) while speaking with reporters outside federal court on Thursday.
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Massachusetts teen arrested for allegedly trying to raise money for ISIS with gift card scheme
A man walks past a poster of the movie The Kerala Story, outside a movie theatre in New Delhi, India on May 13, 2023.
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The Twitter logo is seen on a sign on the exterior of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California, on October 28, 2022. - After months of controversy, Elon Musk is now at the head of one of the most influential social networks on the planet, whose "tremendous potential" he has promised to unleash.
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Supreme Court shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content and leaves Section 230 untouched
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces the death of the ISIS leader on April 30, 2023.
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This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC. The Pentagon, which is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense (DOD), is the world's largest office building by floor area, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. (Photo credit should read STAFF/AFP via Getty Images)
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US forces capture ‘ISIS attack facilitator’ in helicopter raid in Syria
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A US armoured military vehicle drives on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, bordering Turkey, on March 27, 2023.
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US strike kills senior ISIS leader in Syria, US Central Command says
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp makes four substitutions as Liverpool's Kostas Tsimikas, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Roberto Firmino and Darwin Nunez come on during the Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester. Picture date: Saturday April 1, 2023.
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First person tried under New York terror laws passed in the wake of 9/11 is sentenced to 18 years
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Shamima Begum, 19, pictured at a camp in northern Syria on February 22, 2019.
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British woman who joined ISIS as a teen loses UK citizenship appeal
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UK police appealed for help Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, to find three teenage girls who are missing from their homes in London and are believed to be making their way to Syria. The girls, two of them 15 and one 16, have not been seen since Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, when, police say, they took a flight to Istanbul. One has been named as Shamima Begum, 15, who may be traveling under the name of 17-year-old Aklima Begum, and a second as Kadiza Sultana, 16. The third girl is identified as Amira Abase, 15.
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This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC. The Pentagon, which is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense (DOD), is the world's largest office building by floor area, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. (Photo credit should read STAFF/AFP via Getty Images)
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US conducts helicopter raid in Syria capturing ISIS official
This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC. The Pentagon, which is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense (DOD), is the world's largest office building by floor area, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STAFF/AFP/Getty Images)
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4 US troops wounded in Syria raid that killed senior ISIS leader on Thursday
A woman walks carrying a child at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate on August 18, 2021.
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Senators introduce bill on US approach to ISIS detainee and displacement camps in Syria
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Michigan man convicted on federal charges for joining ISIS in Syria
American John Walker Lindh is seen in this undated photo obtained Jan. 22, 2002, from a religious school where he studied for five months in Bannu, Pakistan.
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Convicted ISIS supporter allegedly met with ‘American Taliban’ John Lindh in violation of release conditions
FILE - A law enforcement officer walks by a crime scene Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, after a driver mowed down people on a riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center on Tuesday in New York. A jury is expected to begin hearing closing arguments Tuesday in the trial of an Islamic radical who killed eight people in a vehicle attack on a waterfront bicycle path in New York City in 2017. Sayfullo Saipov could get the death penalty if convicted.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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Photos of Sayfullo Saipov taken in October 2016 after an arrest in St. Charles County, Mo.Saipov was booked after a traffic violation in St. Charles County on an outstanding warrant from another jurisdiction, according to a county corrections sergeant.
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The ancient oasis city of Palmyra, Syria, in March 2014.
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US kills two ISIS officials in helicopter raid in eastern Syria, US Central Command says
The Sultan Hassan Mosque and city skyline of Cairo are seen from the Muhammad Ali Mosque in Cairo's Citadel on October 21, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election during an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff's Office in January 2022 shows Allison Fluke-Ekren. Fluke-Ekren, a Kansas native convicted of leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group, had a long history of behavior that included sexual and physical abuse of her own children, family members said in court filings Oct. 19, 2022. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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Kansas woman who led all-female ISIS battalion sentenced to 20 years in prison
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee February 4, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Carter will succeed Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Iraqi anti-government protesters carry black shields made out of metal drums, on which they had painted the words "Tahrir Shield Squad.", as they gather at al-Sinek bridge in the capital Baghdad on January 25, 2020. (Photo by SABAH ARAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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An Iraqi worker excavates a rock-carving relief recently found at the Mashki Gate, one of the monumental gates to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, on the outskirts of what is today the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on October 19, 2022.
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Archaeologists restoring ISIS damage in Iraq discover Assyrian reliefs unseen for millennia
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 8: A view of a Lafarge Cement plant is seen in Paris, France on September 8, 2021. Franceâs top court said Tuesday that cement giant Lafarge should be investigated on charges of complicity in crimes against humanity for allegedly financing the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group in northern Syria. (Photo by Julien Mattia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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French company to pay nearly $778 million as part of plea deal to US charge of providing support to ISIS
A Rwandan Policeman stands guard as women and children pump water out of well in the village of Olumbi in Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique in Sep. 2022. The policeman is guarding a Rwandan army mobile clinic that was set at the village for the day to treat people. Based on a bilateral agreement between the Mozambican and Rwandan governments, Rwandan Security Forces were deployed to Cabo DelGado province in Northern Mozambique in July 2021 to squash a flourishing ISIS affiliated group called Ansar Al-Sunna Wal Jama'a. The terrorist group has been carrying out attacks in the province since 2017 and in the 2020 they gained control of some villages and towns in the province, terrorising, murdering, and mutilating people and destroying peoples' property in the process. Other African Security Forces are deployed in other provinces in the country.
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ISIS-linked militants are threatening huge natural gas reserves the world needs badly right now
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US kills two top ISIS leaders in airstrike in Syria
A woman walks carrying a child at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate on August 18, 2021.
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TORONTO, ON - JULY 25: A Canada flag flies in the wind on Centre Court during Day 1 of the Rogers Cup at the Aviva Centre on July 25, 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)
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Canada to probe allegations that ‘intelligence agent’ aided in human trafficking to ISIS
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US carries out additional airstrikes in Syria following rocket attack that injured US troops, US official says
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This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC. The Pentagon, which is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense (DOD), is the world's largest office building by floor area, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. AFP PHOTO (Photo by STAFF / AFP) (Photo by STAFF/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden orders airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in Syria following attacks near base holding US troops last week
El Shafee Elsheikh, allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria, Friday, March 30, 2018. "The Beatles" terror cell is believed to have captured, tortured and killed hostages including American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers.
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Member of ‘ISIS Beatles’ given eight life sentences for role in hostage-taking, killing of Americans
File photo of the the At-Tanf military base in southern Syria.
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US-led coalition forces repel drone attack near base in Syria