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Iran Benefits from Kurdish Referendum Fallout
November 08, 2017
The Islamist theocratic regime in Iran has emerged as the geopolitical winner in the complex fallout from the now-stymied independence move that drove Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) referendum, with evidence of a consolidated Shiite geopolitical arc stretching from Tehran to Baghdad and Kirkuk to southern Lebanon and Syria.
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Al-Shabaab Continues East Africa Jihad
November 08, 2017
Islamist terror group al-Shabaab escalated its jihadi war in Somalia with yet another deadly assault on government and civilian targets in the capital city of Mogadishu, just as the country’s president has intensified pleas for American and African states to increase their support in the fight against imposing sharia law in East Africa.
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Court Sentences Uzbek National for Material Support to IS
November 08, 2017
An Uzbek national who had worked in Brooklyn, New York, received a 15-year prison sentence from a US court for providing material support to the Islamic State (IS), including online statements of support to kill then-President Barack Obama and to plant bombs in New York.
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Returning Caliphate Fighters Raise Threat in Balkans
November 08, 2017
According to a comprehensive new report by security experts at the US-based Soufan Group, the anticipated return of significant numbers of fighters who warred for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq will exacerbate state fragility in the Western Balkans and raise Islamist threats in surrounding European states.
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Saudi Prince Seeks Return to "Normal" Islamism
November 08, 2017
In a recent interview, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, widely regarded as next in line for the throne in Saudi Arabia, linked his Vision 2013 economic diversification and reform program to the “normal” Wahhabi Islamism that defined the Kingdom prior to what he claimed was a reactionary Sunni turn against the Shiite Iranian Revolution.
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