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Islamist Competition Leads to Taliban-US Dialogue
August 03, 2018
Leaders from the Islamist militant Taliban, which has been waging a long war against the government of Afghanistan and US forces there, have signaled to Washington a willingness for serious stabilization talks that include the option of a longterm American troop presence in the country, mainly due to the Taliban's desire to roll back the inroads made by the more extremist jihadi Islamic State (IS).
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S&P: Sharia Indices Outpace Conventional Indices
August 01, 2018
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) global financial services and credit rating agency reported that sharia-compliant/compatible performance indices for the second quarter of 2018 outperformed conventional equities markets, with comparative gains in both US and Middle Eastern markets.
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IS Militants Kidnap Women, Children in Druze City in Syria
August 01, 2018
Islamic State (IS) jihadists continued to resist the ending of the caliphate presence in Iraq and Syria, abducting 20 women and 16 children as part of deadly attack of suicide bombings and siege against the predominantly Druze city of Sweida in Syrian government-held areas in southern Syria.
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IS Takes Jihad, Rape, Sexual Enslavement to Afghanistan
August 01, 2018
The globalization of Islamic State (IS) jihadist activities to countries like Afghanistan, despite the military defeat of the core caliphate in Iraq and Syria, has meant the pervasive application of rape and sexual enslavement of young girls and women in the Southwest Asian country.
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Turkey Announces Rejection of US Sanctions Against Iran
August 01, 2018
Turkey's foreign minister has declared that the country will not comply with the US sanctions on the Islamic theocratic government of Iran about to go into effect as a consequence of Washington's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
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