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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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Islamist Radicals Target Historic Babylon
March 13, 2017
As part of the general influence of the Islamic State's systematic ruination of valuable Mideast cultural and religious sites, Islamist radicals are threatening missile attacks to destroy the historic Mesopotamian city of Babylon if Iraqi officials refuse to suspend all cultural and artistic events deemed incompatible with a conservative Islamization agenda.
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EU Parliament Lifts MEP Immunity over Violent Photos
March 13, 2017
Reuters reports that the European Parliament has voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate and Member of the European Parliament Marine Le Pen to permit an investigation of her tweets of violent Islamic State photos in response to a media figure's comparison of her to members of the jihadist group.
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OIC Advances Islamophobia Agenda at UN
March 08, 2017
The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which comprises the single largest voting bloc in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has criticized UNHRC member states for "institutionalized hatred and discrimination" against Muslims.
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Philippines Locates Remains of German Hostage
March 08, 2017
Officials in the Philippines have confirmed they have located the remains of a German hostage who was beheaded in an online execution perpetrated last week by Abu Sayyaf, a violent Islamist jihadist group that targets civilians as part of broader separatist activities in the Southern Philippines.
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