DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As the Islamic State group battles across Syria and Iraq, pushing back larger armies and ruling over entire cities, it is also waging an increasingly sophisticated media campaign that has rallied disenfranchised youth and outpaced the sluggish efforts of Arab governments to stem its appeal.

Long gone are the days when militant leaders like Osama bin Laden smuggled grainy videos to Al-Jazeera. Nowadays Islamic State backers use Twitter, Facebook and other online platforms to entice recruits with professionally made videos showing fighters waging holy war and building an Islamic utopia.

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We are The Syria Campaign.

We are a growing a movement for Syria built to capture the attention of the public and demand more from our global leaders in government, institutions and the media. We are focussed on campaigns that deliver real impact for Syrians in the country, and around the world. We're demanding more money - billions more - from the world's governments for those who need it. We're pushing to make sure that displaced Syrians get access to the health, education and resources they need. We're pushing to ban indiscriminate weapons that kill and injure civilians and calling for punishment for those who use them. We're demanding that the rich countries of the world resettle a fair share of the 3 million Syrians displaced by the conflict. We'll rally the world's support behind Syrians solving the problems of the conflict by running hospitals under siege or rescuing non-combatants from the rubble. We're ending the looting of Syrian artifacts by banning the trade in antiquities. We're building a massive global constituency so when the time comes, we have the power to get all the parties to the negotiating table and find a way forward for a free and peaceful future for Syria.

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