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Turkish President Uses OIC Summit to Assert Muslim Leadership
December 14, 2017
Turkey's president called the emergency summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to demand a unified position by the global Islamic block of 57-member-states against America's declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, using the OIC meeting to claim his leadership of Muslims worldwide and to position himself as the Muslim defender of all Arab peoples against Israel.
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Syrian War Shows Chinese Uyghurs Are Embracing Jihad
December 14, 2017
The strong presence of militant Uyghur fighters supporting IS in the war in Syria points to the notable evolution in the identity and demands of China's large Uyghur Muslim population, whose longstanding goals of political autonomy have shifted to the use of Islamist ideology to support calls for violent jihadism against Beijing.
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Hezbollah Uses Jerusalem to Assert Islamist Leadership
December 14, 2017
Hezbollah is using the U.S. announcement about Jerusalem as the capital of Israel as a moment of opportunity to reposition the militant Shiite Islamist organization as a leader of revolutionary Islamism and expanded its call to resist the US and Israel to include all ethnic and religious communities in the Levant.
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Islamists Stage Deadly Attack on UN Peacekeepers in Central Africa
December 14, 2017
Militants from the Allied Democratic Forces, an African Islamist extremist group known for adherence to a strict interpretation of sharia, staged a lethal assault on a UN peacekeeping base in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 15 peacekeepers in what UN officials described as a war crime and the worst peacekeeper losses in recent history.
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US Teen Arrested for Conspiring to Help Islamic State
December 14, 2017
A teen in Houston, Texas, has been arrested by US security authorities as part of an FBI undercover operation leading to charges that the 18-year-old had been distributing information on making explosives, assembling semi-automatic weapons, and using machetes to stage attacks in the US in support of the Islamic State.
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