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Social Media Link To Terrorist Attacks Poses Conundrum

Pressure is growing on social networks to play a bigger role in finding and weeding out jihadists and others looking to recruit members and plot deadly attacks. But it’s more complicated than it sounds: networks like Facebook and Twitter support

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Two Israelis Stabbed In Hebron, Attacker Killed: Army

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Two Israelis were stabbed in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, with one of them seriously wounded, and the Palestinian attacker was shot dead, the Israeli police and army said. An initial statement from the military said

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CLAIM: London Stabber Was An Uber Driver Who Saw ‘Demons’

Family of the accused Leytonstone stabber, Muhaydin Mire, allege he complained about ‘seeing demons’, prompting them to warn police about his ‘mental health problems’ six weeks before he slashed a man’s neck in an East London tube station. Speaking to Channel

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Palestinian Soccer Tournament Named After Teenage Terrorist

TEL AVIV – The newly formed “Ahmad Manasrah Football Tournament” ​is named after ​a 13-year-old terrorist who stabbed and critically wounded two people aged 21 and 13 in Jerusalem last month, Palestinian Media Watch reported. PMW ​found out about the event’s name through an article

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Iran To Back Palestinians ‘In Any Way We Can’: Khamenei

Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday that Iran would support the Palestinian uprising against Israel “in any way we can”, and rejected U.S. accusations that a recent wave of Palestinian knife and car-ramming attacks amounted to “terrorism”. Khamenei was speaking

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Obama’s Department of Justice Opening ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Office

Likely in response to the attack in a Charleston church where nine were murdered earlier this year, the Obama administration has announced a new office at the Department of Justice aimed at tracking and coordinating investigations into domestic terrorism. They are also teaming up with the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center in the process.

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Not Such A Lone Wolf: Sydney Teen Gunman Links To Islamic Extremists

A teen gunman who shot and killed a NSW Police Service employee in western Sydney on Friday acted after he heard a lecture by the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, a local news network has reported. However, the group has downplayed the claim as “speculation”. Seven News said Farhad