ISIS is urging its fighters to avoid Europe because of the coronavirus pandemic

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• ISIS is telling its fighters not to go to Europe and stage attacks due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. 
• The terror group's newsletter calls on militants to "stay away from the land of the epidemic."
• ISIS no longer controls a large swath of territory across Iraq and Syria but it's estimated the terror group still has as many as 20,000 fighters in the region.
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ISIS has issued a travel advisory for Europe to its fighters due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, asking fighters to suspend travel to the region for terror attacks. 

The latest edition of the terror group's newsletter, Al-Naba, calls on its fighters to "stay away from the land of the epidemic," Homeland Security Today recently reported.

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