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Saudi-Qatar Islamist Rift Goes Global
June 14, 2017
Turkey's Islamist government is using military and economic support to lead a pro-Qatar response to Saudi Arabia's attempt to leverage its control over Islam's holy sites to rally Muslim-majority countries in Africa and Asia behind the effort to isolate Qatar over its presumed support for Islamist revolutions and for the Iran Islamist theocracy.
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Germany Arrests Suspected IS Media Leader
June 14, 2017
German authorities have arrested a Syrian man who entered the country almost two years ago as a suspected key actor in the Islamic State's (IS) news agency Amaq, pointing to the robust presence of IS media operations in Western Europe and to IS's expanding capacity to use diverse media in a global strategy to expand radical Islamism.
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Al-Shabaab Attacks Somali Military Base
June 14, 2017
The Islamic State (IS)-affiliated faction of the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab carried out a deadly attack on a Somali military base in the northeast corner of Somalia, a geostrategically important location in East Africa besieged by warfare between competing IS and al-Qaeda factions of al-Shabaab.
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Boko Haram Shows Resilience with Nigeria Attack
June 14, 2017
The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram demonstrated its resilience in the war to establish a caliphate in West Africa by staging a massive attack on the key northeast Nigerian town of Maiduguri designed to disrupt the visit of Nigeria's Acting President to deliver food aid to Chad Basin refugees created by the jihadi group's terror attacks.
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UK Reportedly Links Michigan Imam to Bridge Attacks
June 14, 2017
British authorities investigating last week's Islamic State-affiliated terror attack on London Bridge are exploring reports that one of the perpetrators had been radicalized by watching YouTube videos of a Michigan-base imam known for his online preaching sympathetic to jihadists fighting in Syria.
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