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A recent report has shown the extent to which ISIS' influence has extended into the US, with hundreds of Americans following pro-ISIS accounts on social-media platforms.

The terrorist group, also known as the Islamic State or ISIL, recruits people from all over the world, including the US. Thousands of people from Western countries are thought to have joined the group's ranks in Iraq and Syria, where ISIS has forcefully established a self-declared Islamic caliphate.

But for many Westerners, the radicalization process starts online, where it's not difficult to find ISIS supporters who pull people in to extremist ideology.

In its report, the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University said the US was "home to a small but active cadre of individuals infatuated with ISIS's ideology," some of whom had left their homes to travel to ISIS territory or mount attacks on the home front.

Snowstorm hits Lebanon, cutting off roads and villages

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January 1, 2016

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A snowplow opens a road in the north Lebanon village of Turza, in the district of Bsharri

BEIRUT (AP) — A snowstorm engulfed Lebanon on the first day of the new year, cutting off mountain roads, isolating villages and worsening living conditions for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.

Many refugees, living in tents and huts in the eastern Bekaa Valley, only came briefly out of their shelters on Friday to clear the snow so their dwellings would not collaps

Elsewhere, Syrian children were seen tossing snowballs at one another and playing in the snow. A child ran around in flip-flops, unfazed by the cold.

In the eastern town of Al-Marj near the Syrian border, the refugees said their biggest worry was the water, from rain or snow, leaking into the tents.

"We don't know when the tent will collapse on us," said a Syrian woman, who identified herself as Um Abdou. "When it's windy, we cannot sleep because we are scared that the tent will be blown away."