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UK Jury Convicts Jihadi Associated With PM Assassination Plot
January 03, 2019
A UK jury convicted a jihadist associated with a plot to murder British Prime Minister Theresa May, with the prosecutor emphasizing the significance of online radicalization and recruitment for domestic terrorism, on the one hand, and linkages to international Islamist financial and operations networks, on the other.
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German Authorities Charge “IS Wife” with War Crimes
January 03, 2019
German authorities are prosecuting a German woman who returned home after traveling to Iraq to work as part of the Islamic State’s (IS) morality police, charging her with war crimes for her buying as a household slave a five-year-old girl who died of thirst under her supervision.
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Iran’s Parliament Rejects Outlawing of Child Marriage
January 03, 2019
Iran’s Parliament defeated a proposal to outlaw marriage of girls between 9 and 13 years of age, keeping the Islamist theocracy in line with trends in other Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member-states, which, according to a recent World Economic Forum report, are among the world’s worst performers on social, educational, health, and political equality.
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Iran-Saudi Sectarian Struggle Tilts Toward Iran
January 03, 2019
Given the economic, foreign policy, and human rights missteps of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the ongoing sectarian struggle between two Islamist extremist regimes of Iran (Shiite) and Saudi Arabia (Sunni) that has shaped Mideast geopolitics for the past four decades is likely to tilt in Iran's favor as 2019 begins.
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IS Forces Remain Lethal Despite Shrinking Territory
January 03, 2019
Despite their ever-shrinking direct control over its remaining caliphate territory in northeastern Syria, the estimated 5000 Islamic State (IS) forces remain highly lethal in the face of US-led, anti-IS coalition forces and Kurdish-led militia.
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