internment
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Third, the military collapse of the caliphate 10 years ago didn’t result only in its territorial disappearance; it also led to the internment of several thousand jihadists fanatical to the point of madness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Before their internment, most of them came from poverty or jail before being enticed, or tricked, into fighting for Russia as mercenaries or on the promise of release from prison.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
The overt racism and grotesque unfairness of Japanese-American internment eventually provoked some degree of societal reckoning, if only years later.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025
An extract was handed to Mr Adams, in which it was written that a senior IRA member from Belfast had been released from internment to participate.
From BBC • May 6, 2025
Their internment starting in 1942 and spanning the war represented one of the darkest periods in American history.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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