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In this November 12, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah fighters hold their party flags, as they parade during the opening of new cemetery for colleagues who died in fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)


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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a sermon during morning prayers for the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in central Tehran, on July 18, 2015. (Reuters/leader.ir /Handout)


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The suspect in the beheading of a businessman, Yassine Salhi, a towel over his head to mask his face, is escorted by police officers as they leave his home in Saint-Priest, outside the city of Lyon, central France, Sunday, June 28, 2015. A security official tells The Associated Press the move to his home aims to find his passport, to determine if he traveled abroad. The suspect allegedly crashed a truck into a U.S.-owned chemical warehouse on Friday, setting off an explosion, and hung his employer’s head on the factory’s gate. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)


Opinion: Selfies and Violent Extremism

Opinion: Selfies and Violent Extremism

Recent news reports indicate that Yassin Salhi, the man who beheaded his boss and tried to attack a factory in France in late June, took a selfie with the victim’s severed head and sent the picture to someone believed to be fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and...
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Military vehicles of the Southern Popular Resistance fighters move during clashes with Houthi fighters on a street in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on July 17, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)


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Members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) take position in a classroom in the village of Ma’arouf in the northeastern Syrian province of Al-Hasakah on July 16, 2015, as they battle Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters. (AFP PHOTO / YOUSSEF KARWASHAN)