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IS Recalibrates Strategy Around Global Cloud of Jihadis
June 29, 2017
Transatlantic security experts are warning that the Islamic State (IS) is shifting its jihad strategy away from the core caliphate territories of Iraq and Syria to the "Western heartland" of the US and Europe, cultivating a "global cloud" of aspirant Islamists who will perpetrate high-casualty terror attacks on soft targets in urban areas.
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Video Shows IS Brainwashing Children as Islamist Fighters
June 29, 2017
A newly released propaganda video of the Islamic State (IS) shows graphic footage of psychological terror tactics, brutality, and violent punishment, to further the systematic indoctrination of children as "cub" fighters into the Islamist caliphate war machine.
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Criminals, Islamists Combine to Threaten Shipping Routes
June 29, 2017
The integration of criminal networks with globalizing Islamist radical networks in the sea lanes of Southeast Asia has catalyzed a major spike in piracy and a sharp deterioration in the maritime security environment of two-thirds of the world's shipping activities.
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Boko Haram Targets Higher Education in Nigeria
June 29, 2017
Boko Haram, the extremist Islamist group whose name means "Western education is forbidden," launched a series of suicide attacks against the university in the country's major northeastern city of Maiduguri, prompting local state officials to begin digging a trench around the university as a deterrent to further jihadi operations.
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Islamist Radicals Advance as Afghan State Fails
June 29, 2017
The creeping advance of Taliban forces and the steady expansion of an Islamic State presence in geopolitically important Afghanistan is intensifying the debate among US policymakers and local commentators about the efficacy of military versus political solutions to the legitimacy and capacity failures of the Afghan state.
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