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US Seeks Saudi-Qatar Reconciliation to Deal with Islamist Sectarianism
May 04, 2018
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s message to state officials in Saudi Arabia to repair the rupture with Qatar by the other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council is a strong signal that Washington views Islamist sectarianism as a primary obstacle to stabilizing the Mideast security environment.
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IS Low-Tech Terror Techniques Spawn Offshoots
May 04, 2018
The multiplier effects of Islamic State's (IS) and other jihadi groups’ use of vehicles to execute mass casualty attacks is evident in the recent, lethal Toronto van attack, which had no direct connection to Islamist terrorism but follows the precise template of violent Islamist groups that have pioneered lethal truck attacks across European cities.
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Al-Qaeda Leadership Moves to Reclaim Primacy
May 04, 2018
Al-Qaeda's emphasis in recent leadership announcements on the strategic imperative to attack the West, "infidels in foreign lands," and "infidel agents" signals the Islamist terror group’s deliberate branding move to regain primacy over the Islamic State in the competitive global jihadi movement.
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Radicalization of Sinai Peninsula Threatens Israel, Egypt
May 04, 2018
The Sinai Peninsula has become an operational space for terrorist activities and attacks on local populations by the now-consolidated Islamic State-Sinai Province (ISSP), posing economic and security threats to the weak Egyptian state and existential threats to Israel that may require swift diplomatic and military action by Israel to re-establish the territory as a buffer zone.
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IS Aims to Use Mediterranean Migration to Destabilize Europe
May 04, 2018
European policymakers are raising red flags about Islamic State (IS) operatives using food shortages in Africa to push migrants across the Mediterranean Sea into Europe to embed themselves into those migratory flows and recruit in Africa from locals displaced from food insecurity.
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