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Iraq Uses Iran-Backed Militias to Stamp out IS
December 17, 2018
The Iraqi government is relying on Iran-backed Shiite militias to try to stamp out resilient Islamic State (IS) underground cells, underscoring the continuing Sunni-Shiite sectarian straightjacket in Mideast regional politics.
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Lethal Suicide Bombing in Kabul Against Muslim Clerics Is Signature IS
December 17, 2018
Another lethal suicide bombing in Kabul has left the rising numbers of dead and wounded already over 130 in an attack against a gathering of Islamic clerics that bears the signature of Islamic State (IS)-affiliated Khorasan’s focus on civilians and Muslim clerics that IS deems as collaborators with the Western-backed Afghan government.
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Pakistani Police Arrest Radical Islamist Leader
December 17, 2018
Police across Pakistan have arrested the leader and hundreds of followers of the radical Islamist-nationalist party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) in an effort to restore public order still disrupted by the TLP’s protests and calls for the murder of judges who acquitted a Pakistani Christian women on the charge of blasphemy.
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Khashoggi Fallout Reveals Turkey-Saudi Struggle for Hegemony
December 17, 2018
Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party, the minority coalition partner to the Turkey’s ruling party, has likened Saudi Arabia to al-Qaeda and the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Osama Bin Laden, underscoring that the subtext to the fallout from the Khashoggi murder is the intense Turkey-Saudi rivalry for hegemony for Sunni Islamic global leadership.
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Saudi Textbooks Teach Hatred, Incitement
December 17, 2018
According to a study by the Anti-Defamation League, Saudi government-published textbooks used in the Islamic theocratic kingdom’s public schools and exported worldwide to Saudi-funded religious schools promote hatred and violence against Jews and Christians and describe the beating of women as “permissible when necessary.”
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