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UN Agent: Boko Haram Is Decimating Education in Nigeria
October 06, 2017
The Deputy Director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that the guerrilla war by the Islamist jihadi group Boko Haram to impose sharia law throughout Nigeria is decimating the country's school system and is creating the conditions for a new generation of youth extremists brainwashed by Boko Haram's Islamization propaganda and traumatized by the country's humanitarian crisis.
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Islamist Terror Groups Shift to Low-tech, High Impact Approach
October 06, 2017
Recent Islamist terror attacks in the West reflect a deliberate turn by global jihadi networks to low-tech, high impact attacks that rely on easily accessible weapons and tight-knit social networks, suggesting that governments must make improvements in intelligence sharing and public security planning, and make more stringent crackdowns on criminal activities related to migration flows.
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Canadian Officials Charge Somali Refugee with IS Terror Attack
October 06, 2017
Canadian security officials have charged a Somali refugee with a history of Islamist sympathies with perpetrating a recent Islamic State (IS)-style terrorist attack, including the use of a knife and a U-Haul vehicle to wound a policeman and several civilians in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Saudi Conservatism Continues Despite Lift of Driving Ban
October 06, 2017
International human rights officials hailed last week's announcement by state officials in Saudi Arabia granting women the right to drive, but experts on the Islamic theocracy warn that the hard-fought "win" may be a public-relations flourish that does little to reform the continuing influence of Wahhabi Islamist conservatism and tribal patriarchy on all aspects of Saudi Arabia's domestic and foreign policies.
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"Virtual Caliphate" Doesn't Mean End of Islamic State
October 06, 2017
The shift to a "virtual caliphate" with the likely military defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in its core caliphate territories does not mean the termination of IS, but rather, implies a shift to cyber and online tactics and new battlefield theatres of operation, based on the resilience of IS' globalized struggle for territory and ideology in the name of the caliphate.
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