(Washington Post) Hugh Naylor - Syrian rebel Zaher al-Shurqat, 36, was murdered this month by an Islamic State militant who fired a round into his head in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. He was the fourth prominent Syrian critic of the Islamic State to be assassinated in the past six months in southern Turkey. Islamic State asserted responsibility for his killing, an attack that further demonstrates the group's ability to strike beyond its center of gravity. In Turkey, the group's multiple suicide bombings over the past year have killed dozens, and concerns have grown that the group operates among the more than 2 million Syrians who have taken refuge in Turkey, as well as among Turkish citizens.
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