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Turkey's Islamists Divide on Caliphate
March 14, 2017
In a move underscoring the state's willingness to silence all voices that challenge the ruling party's hegemony over Islamism, Turkey's Islamist government arrested leading members of one of the country's key global Islamist groups, Hizb ut-Tahrir, on the pretext of a disagreement over an annual conference on the restoration of the Ottoman caliphate.
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Nigerian Women Remain Boko Haram Targets
March 14, 2017
Boko Haram, the jihadi group warring to impose sharia law throughout Nigeria, continues to make gains in targeting women and girls for forced labor, sexual enslavement, and conscription as suicide attackers, while Nigerian government efforts to alleviate radicalization drivers of poverty and gender inequality remain comparatively weak.
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Al-Qaeda Hunkers Down in Syria
March 14, 2017
Al-Qaeda is shifting tactically to a preference for suicide warfare in Syria, relying on a new generation of youth jihadis radicalized and trained by local Islamist militants, to hunker down for a long terrorist insurgency against the Syrian regime and international forces aiming to rid the Levant of jihadism.
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IS Dress as Medics for Afghanistan Hospital Attack
March 14, 2017
Islamic State (IS) militants disguised as doctors perpetrated an attack on a major military hospital in the Afghan capital city of Kabul, with dozens killed and wounded in an assault indicating the Islamist terror group's capacity for executing complex operations directed against the Afghan state.
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Somalia Experts Warn of Al-Shabaab Resurgence
March 13, 2017
Experts warn that the famine-induced humanitarian emergency in Somalia is creating the conditions for a resurgence by the Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab, which will likely use terrorizing violence to expand its territorial footprint and to weaken the fragile Somali state's capacity to deliver food and health relief to vulnerable civilians.
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