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IS Stages Deadly Attack on Shiite Cultural Center
December 29, 2017
The Islamic State (IS) branch in Afghanistan perpetrated a high-casualty suicide bombing attack against a Shiite Cultural Center in Kabul, the latest episode in a spate of destabilizing assaults justified in sectarian terms by IS Sunni Islamists denouncing Shiites as heretics.
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UK Intel Warns of Threat to Europe from Brit Jihadis in Turkey
December 29, 2017
Intelligence sources in the UK have warned that British former fighters for the Islamic State (IS) in Syria who currently hide in Turkey pose a threat to European security, after a newly released IS propaganda video called on them to stage attacks during the Christmas and New Year season.
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EU Committee Studies Women's Impact on Islamist Extremism
December 29, 2017
A new report by the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality details the factors that affect how women engage with radical Islamist ideology and organizations and emphasizes the need to enhance EU policies designed to incorporate women in programs for countering Islamist extremism.
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Experts Warn of Expanding African Footprint of Radical Islamism
December 29, 2017
US security experts are raising concerns about the expanded social media presence and militant activities of a diverse range of radical Islamist groups across the African continent, signaling the ongoing globalization of militant Islamism.
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Turkey's Government Uses Islam to Support Repression
December 29, 2017
Turkey’s government is deliberately drawing on a particular interpretation of political Islamism to justify the repression of its non-Muslim citizens and to support jihad as a foreign policy strategy.
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