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Iran Consolidates Shiite Imperialism as Foreign Policy Plank
May 23, 2018
Leaders of Iran’s Islamic Republic are pushing Shiite revolutionary imperialism as a foreign policy that can unite Persians and Arabs across the Middle East in anti-Western wars and that seeks to compensate for waning domestic support for the Islamist theocratic model.
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OSCE Seeks Legislative Policies on Foreign Fighters
May 22, 2018
At a recent conference in Rome, the chair of a panel of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on counter-terrorism, Makis Voridis, called for legislative action to limit the threats posed by returning foreign terrorist fighters through coordination, information-sharing, and breaking terror links with organized crime.
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UN Body Criticizes Philippines Terror List
May 22, 2018
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has published a decision calling on the Philippines government to remove all indigenous peoples and "human rights defenders" from a list of individuals associated with "terrorist organizations," asserting the list seeks "to narrow the democratic space" and violates international law regarding racial discrimination.
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Twitter Takes Action Against Perceived "Trolls"
May 22, 2018
The BBC reports that social media giant Twitter has announced it is making the tweets of so-called "trolls," identified through account registration activity and tweeting patterns, less visible to users, as their comments are "disruptive" and "distort and detract from the public conversation."
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Al-Qaeda Pushes Back Against Saudi Reform Effort
May 21, 2018
Al-Qaeda leadership is working actively to undermine the modernization efforts of the current leadership of Saudi Arabia as part of the Islamist power struggle of the al-Qaeda-led salafist-jihadi networks against the Wahhabi House of Saud.
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