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Georgia's poverty-stricken northeast valley is struggling to shed its image as a nest of terrorists. Young men from the valley have gone to fight for ISIS. The Pankisi valley has had such a reputation in the past, when the Georgian government conducted several anti-terrorist operations in the early 2000s. Source: EurasiaNet

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