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French Court Strikes Ban on Consulting Extremist Sites
December 20, 2017
France’s Constitutional Council has struck down a law that criminalized the "regular consultation" of websites deemed to be "inciting or glorifying terrorism" on the ground that it constituted a violation of the freedom of communication.
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IS Branches Destabilize Southwest Asia in Lethal Church Attack
December 19, 2017
A twin suicide-bombing attack by an Islamic State (IS) branch in Pakistan against a Church in Quetta killed many worshippers in yet another Islamist assault in the province of Baluchistan, further destabilizing the geopolitically volatile Southwest Asian space where Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan share a border.
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Afghan Taliban Train Openly in Signal of Islamist Resiliency
December 19, 2017
A newly-released video by the Afghan Taliban shows active training camps along the geopolitically crucial Afghanistan-Pakistan border, with open training by the ‘Umari Martyrdom Battalion’ indicating the resilience of this and other militant Islamist groups that continue to wage jihad despite the local presence of American and international coalition forces.
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Islamists Split Over Israel
December 19, 2017
The militant Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gaza in the Palestinian Territories, has reportedly been arresting hardline Salafist jihadis suspected of launching rockets into Israeli territory in the aftermath of the recent US declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, indicating a significant split among Islamist ranks over engagement with Israel.
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Hizballah Uses Family-Clan Ties, Economic Opportunity to Recruit
December 19, 2017
Hizballah, the Lebanese militant Islamist group that has been expanding the arc of radical Shiite influence across the Mideast with Iran’s help, relies on systematic recruitment among family-clan networks and within economically deprived neighborhoods to bolster a jihadi message whose resilience may lead other Islamist militant organizations to copy the model.
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