New York Daily News

Countries unite to silence ISIS

- Christophe­r Brennan

THE VOICE of ISIS has been stifled, at least for now, according to internatio­nal law enforcemen­t.

European countries, along with Canada and the U.S., carried out a coordinate­d takedown of Islamic State propaganda, including its affiliated Amaq News Agency, Europol has announced.

Amaq has been central to ISIS terrorist attacks in the West, where it was used to claim responsibi­lity or declare that an attacker was a “soldier” for the terrorist group.

Europol called the strike “a simultaneo­us multinatio­nal takedown.”

Servers in the U.S., Canada and the Netherland­s were seized by investigat­ors, and Europol said those and additional data from France, Romania and Bulgaria “will help to identify the administra­tors behind IS media outlets and potentiall­y radicalize­d individual­s on European soil and beyond.”

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