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Al-Shabaab Continues Jihad in Somali with Suicide Attack
November 28, 2018
Al-Shabaab continues its relentless war to overthrow the fragile government in Somalia and to impose sharia law throughout the country with yet another suicide-bombing attack against local state offices in the capital city of Mogadishu that killed numerous government officials and civilians, including many children from a Quranic school located near the blast.
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Facebook Reveals Iran’s Global Cyber Ops
November 28, 2018
Facebook recently dismantled what it described as a sophisticated cyber-operations network run through various agencies of the state of Iran, using social media and hacking campaigns to influence private sector and university users worldwide.
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US Confirms Death of Leader of IS Branch in Afghanistan
November 28, 2018
US military sources have confirmed the airstrike kill of the leader of the Islamic State’s (IS) branch in Afghanistan known as IS-Khorasan, an outcome experts acknowledge as significant for the US-led international effort to gain control over an area that has been an especially fertile recruiting and operational space for Islamist terror groups.
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Dutch Authorities Hold Knife Attacker Avenging “Offense to Islam”
November 28, 2018
Dutch police are holding an Afghan man on terrorism charges after he traveled from Germany and perpetrated a knife assault on travelers in Amsterdam's central train station this past weekend, an attack he claimed was vengeance for offense to Islam and related to the cancelled cartoon contest involving Islam's prophet Mohammed.
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Dutch Politician Cancels Cartoon Contest Amid Islamist Threats
November 28, 2018
Dutch politician Geert Wilders announced the cancellation of a cartoon contest seeking entries depicting Islam’s prophet Mohammed, after growing signs of social unrest and a death threat against Dutch citizens by Islamist hardliners from Pakistan who called the contest offensive and blasphemous.
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