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While the world is transfixed on ISIS, its scrutiny dangerously overlooks Iraq’s Shiite militias. The popular mobilization forces (PMF)—a collection of Shiite, Iranian-backed militias—liberated Tikrit in April and are providing the muscle in today’s fight in Anbar province...

The Obama administration is sending mixed messages over Twitter's emerging terrorism problem — how to deal with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other extremist groups that use the social media giant's open platform to incite violence and attacks...

Those keeping a close watch on jihadist threats and recruiting on social media sites say Twitter is largely ignoring calls to block tweets from Islamic extremists, and note that the famous social networking company has done little to stop accelerated calls for attacks around the July Fourth holiday...

"Islamic State" [IS] activists are "weaponizing Twitter; they're weaponizing social media," warns Ambassador Mark Wallace, one of the founders of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), which launched in the US in September and is now expanding its presence to London, Brussels...

Mark Wallace, president of the anti-extremism organization CEP, said that more than 40 thousand supporters of the extremist organization Daash are present on the social networking site Twitter.

Sometimes all it takes - is one sympathetic ear or voice in a massive sea of indifference to turn a law-abiding citizen into an agent of terror and mass destruction. Islamic State or ISIS continues to post 100,000 tweets daily in order to recruit disenfranchised men and women living in the west to...

The Islamic State’s deadly plots against Western targets are on the rise, spiking to 28 this year while the group is steadily expanding its supporter base in the U.S., according to a “Terror Threat Snapshot” circulated by Rep. Michael T. McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on...

On the sidelines of the launch of CEP in the European continent, August Hanning, ex-Director of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) told Alhayat newspaper he does not see an "end in sight to the conflict in Syria." He added that the jihadist threat in Europe started decades ago...

Called the "Counter Extremism Project Europe," or CEP Europe, the group is a partnership between like-minded organizations in the U.S. and Europe. The group vows to challenge the terror group's use of the Internet to recruit and radicalize young Muslims...

The Islamic State’s deadly plots against Western targets are on the rise, spiking to 28 this year while the group is steadily expanding its supporter base in the U.S., according to a “Terror Threat Snapshot” circulated by Rep. Michael T. McCaul , chairman of the House Committee on...