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IS Resiliency Shows in Operational Shift to Global Insurgency
December 05, 2018
The leadership of the Islamic State (IS) has responded to the military defeat of the IS in its core Iraq-Syria territories by reconfiguring the jihadi group’s organizational structure and operational approach away from the focus on territorialized state-building toward a globalized terrorist insurgency designed to disrupt states worldwide.
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OIC Bank Pushes for Sharia Finance to Achieve SDGs
December 05, 2018
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Islamic Development Bank was active at the opening of the UN General Assembly in pushing for the integration of sharia-compliant/compatible finance to attract private-sector stakeholders in reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Group Launches Sharia-Compliant Digital Banking Service in Germany
December 04, 2018
Bahrain’s Al-Baraka Bank Group is launching sharia-compliant digital banking services in Germany via its Turkish subsidiary, aiming to capture market share with Germany’s Muslim population as the gateway for expanding Islamic finance and banking across Europe.
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Turkish Government Threatens Extrajudicial Ops in US
December 04, 2018
The official spokesman for Turkey’s Islamist government said the country’s national intelligence service may carry out extrajudicial operations on US soil to kidnap supporters of the Gulenist Islamist group that has ruptured support for the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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IS Plot Leads to Widespread Arrests in the Netherlands
December 04, 2018
Dutch police have arrested seven men linked to the Islamic State (IS) on suspicion of a threat to carry out high-casualty, multi-location, explosives attacks across the Netherlands.
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