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Islamist Crisis in Philippines Offers Lessons for US
July 10, 2017
According to a US military expert, the siege in the Southern Philippines by the country's armed forces against an amalgam of local and foreign Islamist militant groups reveals critical deficiencies in the use of cultural and informational tools used by the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in the struggle to counter the globalization of violent Islamism.
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Security Experts Warn IS Defeat Will Not End Jihad
July 10, 2017
Western security analysts are warning that the Islamic State's (IS) apparent defeat in Iraq and Syria will not end Islamist terrorism but instead will reinforce Islamist apocalyptic ideas and structural conditions of human insecurity that will quickly reinvigorate another generation of global jihadis.
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Qatar-Saudi Row Shows Staying Power of Muslim Brotherhood
July 10, 2017
At the core of the rupture between the Saudi Arabia-led alliance against Qatar is Doha's support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement whose political staying power is viewed by Jeddah and its allies as the greatest existential, revolutionary threat to their regimes.
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IS Embeds Militants Among Mosul Civilians
July 10, 2017
In the aftermath of the fall of the Islamic State's (IS) Iraqi capital city of Mosul, IS has embedded remnant militants among Mosul civilians to stage terror attacks and perpetuate the spread of extremist Islamist ideology and practices.
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Telegram Is Latest App-of-Choice for IS Global Jihad
July 10, 2017
International counter-terrorism experts have identified encrypted messaging application Telegram as the preferred digital user platform for the Islamic State (IS), implicating the "app" as the "command and control center" for recent IS terror strikes and prompting the Russian government to pressure Telegram's Russian founder to share encryption information with state authorities.
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