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Turkey Includes Jihad in Public Education Curriculum
August 18, 2017
Public school textbooks in NATO-member Turkey have incorporated teaching on jihad into the official curriculum and have removed teaching about evolution, all while the country's Islamist president has publicly critiqued the youth brain-drain due to increasing applications to study abroad.
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Competing Islamist Militants Target Hamas on Gaza-Egypt Border
August 18, 2017
Signaling the cycle of escalating militancy among competing Islamist groups in the Israeli-Palestinian-Egyptian context, Gazan Salafist Islamists, associated with Islamic State actors who are increasingly active in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, targeted Hamas security guards at the Gaza-Egypt border in a suicide attack.
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ICC Orders Reparations for Site Destruction in Mali
August 18, 2017
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered a member of an al-Qaeda offshoot in Mali to pay hefty reparations for the destruction of mausoleums and mosques in the Malian city of Timbuktu, an important, precedent-setting case with implications for Islamist militants' destruction of religious sites in other parts of the world.
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Intelligence Links US IS Supporter to Manchester Attack
August 18, 2017
New intelligence information related to the deadly suicide attack by an Islamic State (IS) supporter at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May shows that a US-based IS recruiter used encrypted messaging to provide input on the attack.
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IS Perpetrates Terror Attack with Van in Barcelona
August 18, 2017
The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for a high-casualty terror attack using a van to plow into a crowd of civilians in Barcelona, patterned after the growing use of vehicles by IS supporters to perpetrate jihad in European states.
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