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Al-Qaeda Branch Makes Gains in Northwest Syria
October 26, 2022
The al-Qaeda affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group has taken control of the large city of Afrian in northwestern Syria, in a move signaling the durability of the jihadist threat inside Syria, where poor governance by Damascus, feuding US-supported Kurdish factions and Turkish-supported Islamist militant groups, and continuing external interference by external states has created growing opportunities for resurgent jihadism as a threat to the security environment of the geopolitically crucial Eastern Mediterranean region.
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Iran's Chief Ayatollah Endorses Arrests-Indictments of Protestors as Agents of Enemy Actors
October 26, 2022
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has publicly endorsed the arrest and indictment of protestors demonstrating against the Islamist regime's human rights abuses in the aftermath of the death-in-custody of Iran's morality policy of Mahsa Amini, with the head cleric denouncing demonstrators and those held in custody as "agents of the enemy."
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Islamist Cash Protection Rackets Will Be Targeted by Somali Government in Effort to Stop Jihadi Disruption
October 26, 2022
The al-Shabab Islamist extremist group waging a jihadist conflict in Somalia has financed its operations through extensive financial extortation as protection for businesses, and the Somali MInistry of Commerce and Industry is aiming to shut down those financing flows by bringing legal action against business and commercial interests who pay protection monies to al-Shabab.
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French Cement Giant Pleads Guilty to Collusion with Jihadists
October 21, 2022
French company Lafarge pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Islamic State (IS) and al-Nusra Front (ANF) in Syria through Lafarge Cement in the form of a multi-million-dollar revenue sharing agreement and payoffs to the jihadist groups for permission for local operations in Syria, with US Justice Department officials heralding the massive fines imposed on Lafarge as a landmark prosecution of corporate material support for Islamist terrorism.
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Turkish-Funded Cologne Mosque Broadcasts Prayer Call
October 20, 2022
Germany's largest mosque in the country's fourth-largest city broadcast the Islamic call to prayer for the first time, in a two-year trial agreement between the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) and the city authorities, in a move heralded by the DITIB General Secretary as a sign of social and religious inclusion for European Muslims and as a possible signal of the politicization of religion by Turkey's Islamist regime, which funds DITIB.
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