Violence and Security

Radical Islamists Carry out More Child Abductions in Nigeria

August 20, 2014

The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, which aims to make Nigeria a sharia state, has staged a mass abduction of young men in a northeast Nigerian village, four months after the group's mass kidnapping of 200-plus Nigerian schoolgirls.
UN Security Council Calls on Jihadi Terrorists to Disband and Expands Sanctions on Jihadi Financiers

August 20, 2014

The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution that calls on the two main jihadi extremist groups operating in Iraq and Syria, The Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front, to disband and cease their terrorist activities, that expands the sanctions lists, including asset freezes and a global travel ban, against financiers of jihadi violence, and that calls on all UN member-states to honor their responsibilities to uphold the resolution.
Indonesia Takes Preventive Steps Against Jihadi Islamism

August 20, 2014

The government of Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population, is taking preventive steps, including media restrictions and citizenship revocations, against possible terrorist threats from jihadi fighters returning from Syria and Iraq.
Audit Raises Red Flags About UN Funding and Supply Flows in Gaza

August 15, 2014

A new internal audit report for the United Nations Development Program's ("UNDP") work in Gaza has identified poor oversight and reporting on funding streams and supply flows from the UN Relief and Works Agency ("UNRWA"), raising red flags about the possibility that Hamas may have diverted UN resources and supplies toward Islamist military operations inside Gaza and against Israel.
Global Ambitions of Islamic State Could Threaten U.S. Homeland

August 15, 2014

The Islamist terror organization known as The Islamic State ("IS") has declared its intentions of using its expanding caliphate in the Middle East as a platform for global jihadi attacks on Western assets in Europe and the U.S., and American intelligence officials cite objective evidence for IS as a threat to the American homeland.
Islamic State Draws on Radical Jurisprudence for Model of Jihadi Caliphate

August 14, 2014

The religious model for the new caliphate proclaimed by The Islamic State ("IS") leader Abu Baku al-Baghdadi is the radical jurisprudence of late-12th-early-13th-century Islamic scholar ibn Taymiyyah, whose teachings are the taproot for the most well-known, global jihadi-Islamist groups and tendencies, including al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Wahhabism.
Turkey Tries About Face on Support for Jihadist Islamic State

August 14, 2014

After a protracted, de facto policy of support for the jihadist forces of The Islamic State (formerly, ISIS) and the al-Nusra Front, Turkey's government is beginning to crack down on smuggling ISIS oil-for-cash, treating jihadist fighters in Turkish hospitals, and allowing Turkey's broader towns to be used as safe havens for jihadi rest-and-recovery.
Islamist Cleansing of Iraq's Religious Minorities Provokes Debates on Protection Options

August 13, 2014

The unrelenting assault by the jihadi Islamists – the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS – against Iraq's ancient Christian and Yazidi minority communities has provoked a broad debate about when and how to carry out humanitarian intervention under the doctrine of "responsibility to protect."
Libya's Failed State Opens Space for Radical Islamists on Europe's Shores

August 13, 2014

International democratization activists are warning that radical Islamist militias are consolidating control in the anarchy that has followed Libya's revolution against the Qaddafi dictatorship, foreclosing democracy-building and establishing a Mediterranean al-Qaeda statelet on Europe's shores.
Turkey's Toleration of Salafists and Jihadis Causing Domestic Instability

August 13, 2014

Turkish human rights organizations and media outlets are reporting that the AKP Islamist government's policy of giving comfort to IS (Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants has led to rising trends of domestic sectarianism and violence led by jihadi salafists.