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Telegram Is Latest App-of-Choice for IS Global Jihad
July 10, 2017
International counter-terrorism experts have identified encrypted messaging application Telegram as the preferred digital user platform for the Islamic State (IS), implicating the "app" as the "command and control center" for recent IS terror strikes and prompting the Russian government to pressure Telegram's Russian founder to share encryption information with state authorities.
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IS Threat Continues amid Shrinking Territory
July 10, 2017
Despite a huge contraction in its core Iraqi and Syrian caliphate territories and a precipitous plunge in all of its major income streams, the Islamic State (IS) presents an intensifying short-term threat to Western security, as IS strategists are shifting their jihadi focus to terror attacks in the Euro-American space.
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Turkey's Islamist Regime Continues Christian Cleansing
July 10, 2017
Turkey's Islamist government arbitrarily expropriated more than 50 churches, monasteries, and cemeteries from the country's Syriac Orthodox community, continuing the cleansing of the country's Christian presence through an aggressive Islamization campaign aimed at both peoples and properties.
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G7 Leaders Push for Business Action on Online "Extremism"
July 10, 2017
The BBC reports that, at a recent meeting in Sicily, leaders from the G7 group of countries called on internet service providers and social media companies to ramp up action on deleting "extremist" content from their platforms.
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Report Identifies Saudi Arabia as Funder of Islamist Extremism in UK
July 05, 2017
A new report by a prominent British think tank has identified Saudi Arabia as the leading source of foreign funding for the dissemination and promotion of radical, violent Islamism inside the UK, consistent with the Gulf Kingdom's strategy of globalizing Wahhabism.
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