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                                          Violence Spike at Af-Pak Border Reveals Global Security Threat from Islamists in South AsiaJuly 12, 2022Since the Taliban resurgence and eventual establishment of an Islamic emirate in Afghanistan, the North Waziristan provincial border between Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af-Pak) has become a renewed global security threat from Islamist extremist groups using the proofs space to launch attacks against both Pakistani military forces and civilian targets. 
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                                          Afghan Citizens Suffer Widespread Human Return Rights Abuses Due to Taliban-IS Extremist WarJuly 12, 2022Human Rights Watch reports that the Islamist civil war between Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime and competitor Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) have produced comprehensive human rights violations in the form of widespread extrajudicial killings by Taliban forces accusing residents of pro-ISKP orientations and by ISKP militants targeting non-Sunni Muslims and non-Muslim minorities. 
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                                          Hezbollah’s Islamist Agenda Shapes Lebanon-Israel East Med Energy DisputeJuly 11, 2022Iran-friendly, Shiite extenuating group Hezbollah continues to exert determinant influence within the Lebanese state and, by extension, in the volatile geopolitics if the Eastern Mediterranean, most recently using drone attacks against Israel‘s offshore natural gas rigs to pressure Washington and Jerusalem into a maritime borders agreement that favors Lebanon and that gives Hezbollah leverage over East Med energy security assets. 
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                                          OIC Shows Leverage in UN With Resolution on Islamophobia DayJuly 11, 2022The Organization of Islamic Cooperation ((OIC) marshaled the strength of its full global membership, along with support from China, Russia, and other human rights violating states, to get the votes for a UN General Assembly Resolution recognizing an International Day to Combat Islamophobia, a decision criticized by some UN member states for setting a problematic precedent by focusing on protection of a single religion and by prioritizing religion over the rights of believers, in contrast to international legal principles and protections. 
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                                          Al-Shabab’s Parallel Financial Practices in Somalia Allow Islamist ExpansionJuly 11, 2022Somalia’s al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group al-Shabab has built a sophisticated network of taxation mapped onto key transportation hubs, in tandem with opportunistic use of the country’s poorly regulated banking system, to finance its almost two-decades-long war against the East African state and to find other jihadist operations that are delegitimizing states across the geopolitically crucial Horn of Africa region. 
