(Reuters) European police agencies have knocked out several internet servers used by Islamic State in a significant blow to the armed group’s ability to spread propaganda online, the Europol police agency said on Monday.
The move shut down a large number of accounts and websites run by the group’s news arm, Europol said.
“They have disappeared from an important part of the internet”, Belgian prosecutors’ spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt said at a news conference at Europol headquarters in The Hague.
“I cannot say at this time it is 100%, we will see how they recuperate from this. It will take a huge effort for them to come back.”
