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Al-Shabaab Strikes in Kenya in Sustained Jihad
July 10, 2017
Al-Shabaab ratcheted up its attacks against civilian targets in Kenya this weekend as part of the Somali jihadi group's sustained campaign to impose sharia across East Africa.
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Jihadism in Maldives Offers Lessons for Countering Islamism
July 10, 2017
Analysts point to corrupt governance, political authoritarianism, and Saudi Arabian funding for the promotion of Islamist extremism to explain the Maldives' designation as the state with the "highest per capita number of jihadis in Syria and Iraq" and to consider general lessons for preventing the spread of violent islamism.
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IRGC Chief Predicts Expanding Iranian Traction in Mideast
July 10, 2017
The leader of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently declared that the apparent defeat of the Islamic State in its Iraqi and Syrian Sunni heartlands, as well as Saudi Arabia's failure to achieve victory in the ongoing Saudi-Iran proxy war in Yemen, signals the expanding appeal of the Iranian Shiite revolutionary model across the Middle East.
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Dana Gas Case Highlights Sharia Finance Risks
July 10, 2017
The ongoing dispute over the refusal by the United Arab Emirates' Dana Gas to make $700 million in payments because of a controversy over the interpretation of sharia compliance is generating major international uncertainty over how to establish religious interpretive standards to mitigate the risks associated with Islamic financial instruments.
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Islamist Militants Stage Major Attack in Egyptian Sinai
July 10, 2017
Islamist militants staged a major attack with high casualties in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, serving notice to the Egyptian government that the ongoing Islamic State-affiliated insurgence in the geopolitically crucial region is intensifying.
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