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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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2015 Paris Terror Attacks Fast Facts

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 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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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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A home destroyed during the attack by Hamas is seen in Kibbutz Be'eri in Israel on October 14.

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Video ISIS and Hamas have two very different ideologies. But are their tactics becoming more similar? 5:23

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Video How Hamas’ tactics appear to mirror ISIS 4:15

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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Blinken pledges US will never falter from supporting Israel as he likens Hamas’ crimes to ISIS

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)

Video Netanyahu dice que Hamas ha adoptado los métodos de ISIS 5:55

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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US military announces it captured ISIS official in Syria helicopter raid

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.

New US intelligence suggests al Qaeda unlikely to revive in Afghanistan, but officials warn ISIS threat remains

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The videos ISIS didn’t want you to see: How grainy security footage could help hold abusers to account

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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Video CNN Exclusive: Smuggler with ISIS ties helped migrants enter U.S. 2:31

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Video Wagner leader reveals where his operation has moved to and why 2:44

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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Six found guilty for Brussels terror attacks, Belgian public broadcaster reports

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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US says drones harassed by Russian aircraft killed ISIS leader in Syria

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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Twenty people arrested on suspicion of collaborating in Uganda school massacre

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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ISIS-linked rebel group attacks Ugandan school, killing dozens

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 Kerala Story’ is a box office hit in India. It also vilifies Muslims, critics say

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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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Turkey kills ISIS leader in Syria operation, Erdogan says

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

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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Video Experts piece together artifacts destroyed by ISIS in Mosul 2:54

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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Police investigating reports of Liverpool bus attack after Manchester City match

An undated file photo of John Walker Lindh, obtained from record of religious schools where he studied for five months in Bannu, Pakistan. The photo was obtained Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2002 in Bannu. (AP Photo)

Convicted ISIS supporter sentenced to additional year in prison over meeting with ‘American Taliban’ John Lindh

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Video U.S. launches retaliatory strikes on Iran-backed facilities in Syria 7:10

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Video Hear from undercover cop who helped convict radical cleric who supported ISIS 3:49

Abdullah el-Faisal is seen after his arrest in Jamaica in 2020.

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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Fact check: Trump delivers wildly dishonest speech at CPAC

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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Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s hearing on Twitter’s liability for terrorist use of its platform

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A view of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 1, 2022 in Washington, DC.

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Video Family of ISIS victim says YouTube algorithm is liable. What will the Supreme Court say? 2:30

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Two Supreme Court cases this week could upend the entire internet

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.

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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Closing arguments conclude in trial of accused NYC bike path terror suspect

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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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Terror suspect accused of killing 8 people on NYC bike path still believes in ISIS, defense attorney says

The ancient oasis city of Palmyra, Syria, in March 2014.

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Syria Fast Facts

Five years on from the Arena attack, Manchester remains close to Ariana Grande's heart.

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Ariana Grande still donates Christmas gifts to child patients years after Manchester attack

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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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Egypt Fast Facts

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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Fact check: 20 false and misleading claims Trump made in his announcement speech

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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Ash Carter, former defense secretary under Obama, dies at 68

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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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Iraq Fast Facts

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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Video This nation’s natural gas potential could rival Russia. But first, they need to fight ISIS 3:52

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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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Australia to rescue families of ISIS fighters from Syria

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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A picture taken on November 5, 2012 in Aleppo shows US freelance reporter James Foley, who was kidnapped in war-torn Syria six weeks ago and has been missing since, his family revealed on January 2, 2013. Foley, 39, an experienced war reporter who has covered other conflicts, was seized by armed men in the town of Taftanaz in the northern province of Idlib on November 22, according to witnesses. The reporter contributed videos to Agence France-Presse (AFP) in recent months. AFP PHOTO / NICOLE TUNG
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Opinion: Slain journalist James Foley’s mother is grateful justice prevailed

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FILE - This is a an undated handout image made available by Belgium Federal Police of Salah Abdeslam who was wanted in connection to the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. France is putting on trial 20 men accused in the Nov. 13, 2015, Islamic State terror attacks on Paris that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured . Twenty men are charged, but only 14 will be on trial. Chief among them is Salah Abdeslam, who ditched his car and a malfunctioning suicide vest and ultimately fled to a hideout in his hometown of Brussels. (Belgium Federal Police via AP, File)

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Leading Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam says he killed no one

TOPSHOT - Syrians gather on February 3, 2022 at the scene following an overnight raid by US special operations forces against suspected jihadists in northwestern Syria which left at least nine people dead, including three civilians. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP) (Photo by AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images)

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The leader of ISIS died this week. But the terror group remains a formidable force, UN finds