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Islamic State Pressured After Turkey Tightens Jihadi Highway - ABC News

Islamic State Pressured After Turkey Tightens Jihadi Highway

By dominique soguel and aya batrawy, associated press

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Jul 6, 2016, 4:08 AM ET

Along the border near the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, a wall of giant concrete blocks is going up as Turkey tries to seal off a region that for years was a jihadi highway through which thousands of extremist fighters flowed to join the Islamic State group in neighboring Syria.

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