Jihadists Leverage Social Media to Condemn US-led Airstrikes

Supporters of Islamist extremist movements took to social media streams on Tuesday to slam U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria against the militant group calling itself the Islamic State [IS]. And as a new front in the Syrian civil war has opened, analysts say militant fighters could change the way they use social media. IS militants, which used social media with particular skill, could be affected more than some of the other groups -- such as Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaida offshoot in Syria --...

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