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IS Targets Druze as Militants Regroup in Syria
August 15, 2018
Islamic State (IS) fighters targeted Syria's Druze community kidnapping-for-ransom and violence, a first-time move against the Islamic offshoot community considered heretics by IS and a signal of the Islamist extremist group's shift to targeted, low-risk-high-return attacks designed to sustain their jihadist operations over the long haul in Syria and Iraq.
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Judge Sentences Ex-Marine for IS Terror Plot in San Francisco
August 15, 2018
A former US Marine was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for his role in plotting with Islamic State (IS) to perpetrate a terrorist attack against the popular tourist spot Pier 39 in San Francisco.
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Indonesia Tries Woman for Blasphemy over Noise Complaints
August 15, 2018
Two years after her complaints about the volume of loudspeakers in a local mosque in Sumatra Province in Indonesia sparked massive riots that targeted Buddhist temples, a woman is on trial for blasphemy against Islam and faces multi-year imprisonment in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.
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Turkey Constructs Foreign Mosques for Intel, Intimidation
August 15, 2018
Fox News reports that Turkey's Islamist regime is building mosques in the US, Europe, and elsewhere as spaces for intelligence gathering and intimidation of Turkish citizens deemed enemies of the state for their failure to support the Islamist regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Islamist Sectarian Violence Leaves Shiite Students Dead in Kabul
August 15, 2018
A high-casualty suicide-bombing attack at a university preparatory school in Kabul for Afghanistan's Shiite Hazara community bears all the hallmarks of Sunni Islamist extremists who view the country's Shiite minority as heretics to be targeted with violence.
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