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Trauma Programs Emerge in Post-IS Normalization
August 31, 2017
Governments and nongovernmental organizations are investing resources in traumatology programs designed to assist former Islamic State (IS) victims with the psychological and physical rehabilitation counseling needs crucial to social normalization and sustainable peacebuilding in a post-radical Islamist Iraq and Syria.
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Iran-Hezbollah Alliance Strengthens Global Shiite Jihadism
August 28, 2017
More than three decades of continuous cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Lebanon's militant Islamist group Hezbollah has evolved into a highly sophisticated, Persian-Arabic alliance with a global network of ideological, socioeconomic, and military activities committed to Shiite jihadism.
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Sunni Hardliners Condemn Tunisian Inheritance Reforms
August 28, 2017
Conservative clerics at Egypt's Al-Azhar university, the leading jurisprudential authority in global Sunni Islam, have condemned as impermissible and blasphemous a proposal by Tunisia's president for changes in women's inheritance rights as part of broader legal reforms aimed at gender equality before the law.
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IS Attacks Shiite Mosque in Afghanistan
August 28, 2017
A weekend Islamic State (IS) blast targeting a major Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's capital city is the latest in a spike of sectarian violence driven by Sunni jihadis and is part of the expansion of the radical Islamist theater of operations in the key Southwest Asian countries Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Pakistani Taliban Launches English-Language Magazine for Women
August 28, 2017
Pakistan's branch of the Afghan-based Taliban has launched an English-language online magazine that specifically aims at upper-middle-class, well-educated women as a potential recruiting windfall for spreading radical Islamist ideas at home and for carrying out global jihad.