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Saudi-Uzbek Agreement Expands Sharia Finance in Central Asia
December 03, 2018
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is expanding its influence in Central Asia through a decision by the Saudi Arabia-based Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector to extend credit lines to Uzbekistan banks for sharia-compliant/compatible banking and financial services in Central Asia’s most populous country.
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IS Increases Targeted Attacks Against Afghan Shiites
December 03, 2018
The ISKP, the Afghan affiliate of the Sunni terror-jihad group Islamic State (IS), has steadily increased its targeted violence against Afghanistan's Shiite minority community, deliberately aggravating sectarian tensions in a country weakened by decades of war.
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Saudi Rail Upgrades Target Pilgrimage Revenues, Islamist Legitimacy
December 03, 2018
Saudi Arabia is banking on the Islamic pilgrimage (haj) as a continuing source of revenue for the country to stave off sociopolitical pressures with the inauguration of a new, Spanish-built, high-speed rail link between the two holy pilgrimage cities of Mecca and Medina.
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Boko Haram Remains a Disruptive Influence in West Africa
December 03, 2018
The ongoing war by Boko Haram ("Western education is a sin") Islamist militants to impose sharia in West Africa continues to impose limits on the gradual reopening of schools at the Cameroon-Nigeria border.
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IRG Vows Revenge Against US, Allies Following IS Attack
December 03, 2018
Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRG), considered the vanguard of the country's Islamist regime, vowed revenge against the US and its Arab Gulf State allies following a high-casualty attack against IRG soldiers and civilians in a parade in southwestern Iran claimed by the Islamic State and the Iranian-Arab minority's Ahvaz National Resistance.
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