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Firms Lobby UK for Sharia-Oriented Tax Reform
June 22, 2018
A group of more than 20 firms engaged in Islamic finance and banking in the UK are lobbying the British Tax Authority to amend UK laws to create more competitive opportunities for sharia-compliant options in the areas of mortgage refinancing.
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Turkish Military, Islamist Partners Engage in Religious Cleansing
June 22, 2018
Turkish Armed Forces are coordinating with Syrian Islamist partners, a combination of jihadist groups still seeking the overthrow of the al-Assad regime in Syria, to target Christians and Yazidis, along with Kurds and non-jihadist Muslims, in the northern Syria region bordering Turkey.
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Hezbollah Networks, Ops Extend to South America
June 20, 2018
Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamist organization that constitutes the majority in Lebanon's government institutions, is operating transcontinental cocaine trafficking networks stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean to South America to secure robust financing for a wide range of transnational Islamist activities.
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Reviews Question Success of USAID in Combating Extremism
June 13, 2018
Recent reviews of humanitarian programs supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in America's effort to use development as a means for countering Islamist radicalization and violence demonstrate mixed results and raise questions about the blowback against US spending on "countering violent Islamist extremism."
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IS Seeks to Sabotage Afghan-Taliban Ceasefire
June 13, 2018
Islamic State (IS) cells carried out multi-city suicide bombings with high civilian fatalities in Afghanistan on Monday, signaling the Islamist terror group's continued efforts to bring a caliphate to Southwest Asia even in the context of the temporary ceasefire agreed between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
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