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Taliban Uses Burqa as Cover for Suicide Attack
August 04, 2017
A Taliban suicide bomber used the cover of a burqa, the full-body covering for women prescribed by fundamentalist Islamism, to perpetrate a lethal suicide bombing attack against a NATO patrol in eastern Afghanistan.
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Australia Stops Islamist Land and Air Terror Plots
August 04, 2017
Austrialian police have released details in the arrest of individuals for what is being described as an Islamist plan to execute a sophisticated series of terror attacks, involving the disbursal of chemicals in public spaces in Australia and the detonation of an improvised explosive device on an Etihad Airways flight from Australia to the United Arab Emirates.
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Anti-Israel OIC Meeting Pauses Islamist Conflict
August 02, 2017
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran shelved their Sunni-Shiite sectarian competition for control over global Islamist orthodoxy in favor of an anti-Israel united front at a recent Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting at which officials condemned Israel for "provocative actions" against the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
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Islamist Extremism Puts down Roots in Kazakhstan
August 02, 2017
Homegrown Islamist extremist ideology and movements have put down deep roots in the socioeconomic poverty and political corruption of Kazakhstan, contributing to the broader destabilization in the geopolitics of Central Asia and to the region's growing importance as a connective space for jihadi activities in Europe and Asia.
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Turkey Decries Criticism by US Official
August 02, 2017
Recent comments by the US Special Envoy for the Global Coalition against the Islamic State (IS), critiquing Turkey for continuing to support al-Qaeda and for turning a blind eye to jihadis and weapons crossing from the country into Syria, provoked an official complaint from the foreign ministry in Ankara to Washington.
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