Analysis: Times have never been tougher for those who want to inform on the terrorists or chronicle their deeds. That isn’t a sign of a group under mortal strainHis tone was flatter,his physique less muscled, but his intent as menacing as his predecessor. The debut of what appears to be a unique British-accented jihadi in an Islamic State propaganda film seemed tailored to signal commerce as usual for the terrorism group, or two months after its foreboding former face,Mohammed Emwazi, was killed.
A lot has happened since then; the coordinated attacks in Paris, and three mass bombings in southern Turkey,obvious near-misses in Munich and Brussels, a downed Russian passenger jet in the Sinai and heightened anxiety from Madrid to Istanbul.
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Source: theguardian.com