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Islamist Penetration in Philippines Continues with Siege
May 25, 2017
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law and ordered military action in the city of Marawi as part of an escalating counter-terrorism operation to degrade Islamic State forces that have penetrated the southern Philippines to expand Islamist militant ideas and practices throughout the island nation.
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DC Officials Seek Prosecution of Erdogan Guards
May 25, 2017
American officials and policymakers are intensifying their calls in favor of lifting diplomatic immunity in order to prosecute members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail who violently attacked US citizens calling for an end to the authoritarian practices of Turkey's Islamist regime outside the country's embassy in Washington.
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Iran's Levant Geopolitics Could Provoke Conflict with US
May 25, 2017
Iran's expansion of its brand of Islamist geopolitics throughout Syria and Iraq through its leadership of a coalition of anti-Islamic State (IS) Shiite forces in the region raises the possibility of a proxy confrontation between US-led coalition forces and Iran-led Shiite deployments from Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan in the battle to oust IS from its Syrian headquarters in Raqqa.
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Manchester Attack Raises Questions About IS Capacity
May 25, 2017
Following the claim of responsibility by the Islamic State (IS) for the suicide bombing attack this week in Manchester, England, Western security officials are presented with a security paradox involving the positive correlation between the contraction of IS's territorial control in its Mideast heartland and its capacity to expand its message and carry out jihad in Western countries.
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German Ministers Advance Proposal for "Hate Speech" Fines
May 25, 2017
The BBC reports that German government ministers have approved the advancement of legislation providing for fines of up to 50 million euros for social media companies that fail to promptly remove "illegal hate speech" and "fake news" from their online platforms, with German Justice Minister Heiko Mass explaining that "the freedom of speech is only limited by the law."
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