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Thaer Ghandour is a senior reporter at al-Araby al-Jadeed, and a media consultant. He has worked with al-Jazeera as a producer and al-Akhbar newspaper in Lebanon as a journalist.
The armed group is gaining support by painting itself as less brutal than the Islamic State group