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India-Pakistan Tensions Escalate Following Kashmir Attack
February 27, 2019
Tensions between the nuclear states of India and Pakistan continue to escalate as India carried out a bombing raid inside Pakistan in the wake of a recent, high-casualty suicide-bombing attack in the Indo-Pak disputed territory of Kashmir perpetrated by a Pakistan-based jihadist group.
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Intel Report: Iran Uses GPS Kits to Target Israel
February 22, 2019
According to a recent intelligence report by the British Israel Communication and Research Centre, Iran is transferring in suitcases GPS devices that can be weaponized for precision missile technology capable of striking Israel.
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Sectarianism Affects Lebanon's Environment, Public Health
February 21, 2019
The metastasizing environmental and public health problems of Lebanon are overwhelmingly tied to policymaking gridlock caused by the effort of non-Shiite, non-Islamist parties to counter the growing dominance of the Iran-client Hezbollah Party in Lebanon's multi-confessional state.
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EU Designates Saudi Arabia “High-Risk” for Terror Financing
February 21, 2019
The EU has designated Saudi Arabia as a "high-risk third country" because of "strategic deficiencies" in the Islamic theocracy's counter-terrorism regimes, underscoring growing transatlantic concerns about the continuing impact of Saudi Arabia's financing of global jihadist operations.
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Islamist Regimes, Groups Use Religion as Soft-Power Tool
February 21, 2019
According to a blog post published by the Brookings Institution, effective foreign policy aiming to counter Islamist extremism depends on an improved understanding of how Islamist state regimes and non-state actors recognize religion as a form of soft power that can be deployed transnationally through violent and non-violent tools.
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