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A burnt vehicle belonging to Iraqi security forces is pictured at a checkpoint in east Mosul on June 11, 2014, one day after radical Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of the city.

ISIS is moving to the ‘top of the list’ of counterterrorism worries

Conflict

Move over, al-Qaeda: The militants of ISIS are becoming a huge concern for counterterrorism officials as they gain battlefield experience and recruit new jihadis from as far away as Europe and the United States.Move over, al-Qaeda: The militants of ISIS are becoming a huge concern for counterterrorism officials as they gain battlefield experience and recruit new jihadis from as far away as Europe and the United States.

A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria holds an ISIS flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul. Picture taken June 23rd, 2014.

How the US can take the fight to ISIS on the financial front

Business, Economics and Jobs
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