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users consent to allowing ISIS to post to their social-media accounts. To avoid Twitter’s spam-detection algorithms, Berger noted, the app even spaces out its posts.

27,000 Twitter accounts that mentioned the ISIS positively.

40,000 tweets in a single day,

700,000 accounts discussed the terrorist group.

ISIS tries to get its content to trend globally.

using a #worldcup2014

“When an account gets shut down, a new one is immediately created, and they use other guys to promote the [new] account,” Truvé tells me. “It’s kind of a whack-a-mole thing.”

“The volume of those tweets was enough to make any search for ‘Baghdad’ on Twitter generate the image among its first results,” Berger noted, “which is certainly one means of intimidating the city’s residents.”

, propaganda has one crucial deficiency: It’s not the truth.

I don't want any government or industry to censor what I can and cannot say to my community in my attempt to ethically inform them

GREENE: Let me just make sure I understand this because it seems like a very important point - you're saying the New York Post, they are journalists; they made the decision on their own. You might say that it was a bad decision, but it was a news organization, a publisher, so to speak, making a decision about what to publish. Twitter, in the eyes of many of us, you know, is a platform for us to share. And that's a different thing for them to censor you or I or other people in terms of what we want to share or not.

Yeah, I would look at it as if the printing press operators decided that they wanted to censor the New York Post, right? That's if we view Twitter as a platform. Printing press operators wouldn't shape a newspaper

these organizations are really sophisticated with their propaganda, and this is just one video of many different types of strategies that they employ.

that by allowing this video to be available, it is helping ISIS - these militants - spread their propaganda

we were to have a technology company censoring images from the Vietnam War, think of the iconic images that would be censored and blanked.

Viewing a video, I feel like you need to make that decision. You need to make that decision. The government shouldn't make that decision for you. A tech company shouldn't make it for you.

these are the images that changed the tone, the country, the direction of that war

This one here is not the government censoring. This is a tech company that is censoring. Now, again, it's their platform. It's their rules. But it is something to be aware o

witnesses said as many as 22 were being held either for ransom or as bargaining chips.

border would remain closed indefinitely until the authorities could guarantee security there.

The chaos on the border was a blow to Syria’s government, which lost the last crossing it had still controlled along the 230-mile border. But it could also be embarrassing for Jordan, the United States and other allies involved in a covert program to train insurgents who, they insist, are relatively nationalist and moderate.

admitted in an interview that some members of army-affiliated battalions had taken part in the looting, but he insisted that they had not coordinated with Nusra.

“I admit there was chaos and looting even by members of the Free Syrian Army, but we are working on returning some of the stolen goods and equipment,”

He said that factions linked to the Free Syrian Army had seized the border crossing without Nusra fighters, who rushed in later to take credit. Antigovernment activists in the area have said that a deal was made with Nusra to remain in the background.

Nusra and Free Syrian Army groups were controlling different parts of the complex, with a Free Syrian Army group called the Southern Falcons objecting to Nusra’s efforts to seize control of the crossing and its spoils. He said a Nusra fighter told him they were holding 22 drivers, not for ransom, but as a way to put pressure on the Free Syrian Army “to let Nusra run the whole place.

 The war has split and scattered all of their families around the world. Bekandy's father is still back in Syria, her fiancé and mother are in London.

He hopes his good deeds might somehow help reunite him with his family, which is now split into three parts, spread across Europe.

His wife and six-year-old son are on the line from Athens. Their eldest daughter — just 15 — is in Germany.

Lezieh says ISIS drew that X on his house in Aleppo, marking it to show his was a Christian home. He says militants tried to recruit him, threatened to kidnap his children and bombed his new business

Now Lezieh gets by with donations from parishioners and hopes to see his family all in one place soon. He tries to smile through the tears. He has to. His daughter is calling.

Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan

The country's prime minister recently called on western powers to help him stop the spread of what he calls 'militancy' in his country.

There are more than 225,000 Libyans registered in militias. They receive state salaries but often act outisde of government control, taking orders from local or political commanders.

Groups in Libya's eastern Cyrenaica region and in the southern Fezzan region have called for independence

In Cyrenaica, former rebel leader Ibrahim al-Jathran and his 20,000 men strong militia say they now run local affairs, with Jathran and his men controlling facilities that account for 60 percent of Libya's oil wealth.

Humanitarian aid will not be affected, the government official said. Syrians with passports are still allowed to cross into Syria

Turkey has kept its borders open to refugees since the start of Syria's civil war four years ago, but it has come under criticism for doing too little to keep foreign fighters crossing and joining militant groups including Islamic State

divided between government forces and insurgent groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad in a conflict estimated to have killed 200,000 people

The closure of the Turkish border posts also comes after an air strike on Sunday