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Foreign Volunteers in Anti-IS Fight Could Face Prosecution
November 14, 2017
Volunteers who fought with Syrian Kurdish forces in the anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition supported by the US and its European allies now face possible prosecution for supporting terrorists, since the US and UK have branded some Kurdish organizations as terrorists as part of the geopolitical moves to negate the outcome of Iraqi Kurds' referendum for independence.
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Saudi Political Shakeup Raises Risk of Mideast Conflict
November 14, 2017
The political purge and corruption dragnet underway by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, second in line for the throne of the Wahhabi theocracy, is creating unprecedented authoritarianism inside the country and threatens to provoke direct Saudi-Iran violence in the already geopolitically unstable Gulf region.
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UK Court Rejects Muslim School Segregation Appeal
November 13, 2017
A UK appeals court has rejected an appeal from the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) requesting review of a ruling that some AMS schools were causing discrimination through their policy of gender discrimination on the grounds of sharia law requirements.
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FBI Investigates IS Hacking of US School Websites
November 13, 2017
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating an Islamic State (IS) hacker attack on 800 public schools across the US after a Georgia-based host server for the schools sent visitors to their sites to IS YouTube videos that included text banners of "I love Islamic State (ISIS)."
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France, Switzerland Launch Counter-terrorism Operation
November 13, 2017
A joint counter-terrorism operation in France and Switzerland resulted in the arrest of 10 individuals identified as suspects in a planned Islamist terror attack on the French city of Nice.
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