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UK Tries Female Jihadists for Planning Homeland Attacks
May 15, 2018
A British trial has begun for a mother and two daughters captured by British intelligence and police on evidence of online recruitment by Islamic State jihadists and subsequent plans to carry out terrorist attacks against civilian targets in London.
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World Summit Features Push for OIC-Russia Trade
May 15, 2018
This year's International Economic Summit Russia-Islamic World, held annually in the Russian city of Kazan, served as the platform for announcing systematic efforts to expand trade and investment between Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries and Russia.
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Islamist Theocracies Threaten Mideast Nuclear Arms Race
May 15, 2018
In the wake of the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s threats to resume uranium enrichment for weapons purposes are now being matched by pressure on the US from Saudi Arabia to complete a pending deal with American companies to acquire nuclear technology and fuel.
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French Knife Attack Raises Questions About Terror Watchlists
May 15, 2018
A recent knife attack in France by an Islamic State (IS) supporter has raised renewed questions about the preventive utility of radicalization watchlists, given that the perpetrator of the attack was a naturalized French citizen born in a Russian region known for producing jihadists and was already on a police radicalization watchlist.
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IS Threatens Iraqi Elections
May 11, 2018
The Islamic State (IS) continues to demonstrate its disruptive resiliency in the run-up to this weekend’s national elections in Iraq, coupling attacks by IS cells on voter-registration sites and assassination attempts against candidates with a propaganda message threatening violence against those who vote for Shiite candidates.
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