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Iranian Citizen Paramilitary Forces Build Regional Shiite Influence
December 30, 2016
Iran has integrated the Basij corps, a citizen paramilitary organization established to safeguard the country's Islamic revolution by using repressive domestic security tactics, into the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as the military-propaganda vanguard of Iranian Shiite jihadism in the Middle East and around the world.
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OIC Hails UN Security Council Vote on Israeli Settlements
December 30, 2016
The 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the largest voting bloc in the UN General Assembly, hailed as "historic" a UN Security Council vote that condemned Israel for building settlements in the Palestinian Territories.
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IS Runs Organ and Slave Trade out of Turkey
December 30, 2016
According to evidence from security and human rights experts, Turkey has become a platform for Islamic State (IS) operatives running robust networks to finance Islamist jihadi activities by trading in human organs and trafficking of human beings.
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Experts Expect Increasing 2017 Islamic Finance Influence in Africa
December 30, 2016
Development and infrastructure needs in Africa will provide greater opportunities for sharia-compatible financing and other Islamic banking in 2017, especially as Middle Eastern and South Asian Islamic finance players look to expand their influence in non-Muslim-majority sub-Saharan and West African countries.
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Debates on Returning Jihadis Intensify in Tunisia
December 30, 2016
The arrest by Tunisian authorities of three men with suspected Islamic State sympathies and ties to the perpetrator of the Berlin Christmas market terror attack has provoked renewed public demonstrations in Tunisia demanding that the government develop a clear policy to deal with returning jihadis who have fought in Islamist wars stretching from Libya to Syria.
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