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That image has suffered because of the country's close links with Iran as well as militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

He has also promised a new anti-terror law in place of Egypt's interminable "emergency" laws, which most often have been used to clamp down on Islamists, moderate as well as militant.

Human rights groups have consistently criticized Tunisia for its harsh treatment of Islamists, accusing the government of exploiting the threat of extremism to suppress moderate as well as militant critics.

And those elements of armed opposition supported by the United States and other Western countries are now fighting a two-front war, against Assad's forces as well as militant jihadists pursuing a future Syria governed by sharia, or Islamic law.

But the wider, most pressing issue is Gaza, whose citizens, women and children as well as militants, have been dying.

But they are also creating enemies for the United States among people in Pakistan and Yemen who say the weapons are killing civilians, as well as militants.

Sixteen strikes around seven Iraqi cities destroyed vehicles, buildings, equipment and fighting positions, as well as militants themselves, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement.

Rights groups say more than 8,000 people have disappeared since the rebellion began and the groups have for years accused the government of killing innocent civilians as well as militants.

Hundreds of people have been killed by the strikes in Pakistan - civilians as well as militants, causing outrage.

Tweets by IS supporters linked the Ramadi attacks to the teenager, as well as militants from Russia, Syria, Egypt, Belgium and Uzbekistan.

The condemnations revive a long-standing debate among conservatives as well as militants about the rectitude of the world's most popular sport.