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IS European Infrastructure Serves as Global Strategic Model
August 03, 2016
According to a prison interview with a former Islamic State member from Germany, IS has built an extensive European infrastructure that is a model for IS's global operations strategy, including sophisticated recruitment, media, intelligence, and military divisions designed to grow the extremist Islamist organization and to carry out violent jihadi operations.
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Turkey Targets US Military with Terrorism Accusations
August 03, 2016
In a newly filed criminal complaint, Turkey's Islamist government accused the US of supporting terrorism and charged that senior US officials, including the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, were directly involved in the coup plot allegedly masterminded by supporters of US-based Fetullah Gulen.
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French Lose Faith in Leaders on Islamic Extremism
August 02, 2016
An article in The Economist highlights how the French people, who have endured 14 terrorist attacks in the last two years, are rapidly losing faith in their government institutions to protect them against assaults by Islamic extremists.
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Saudi Arabia Exports Radical Islamism Across South Asia
August 02, 2016
Saudi Arabia's longstanding policy of exporting radical Islamism has had dangerous effects in South Asia, where the growth of internationally active jihadi cells and domestic persecution against religious minorities is skyrocketing, while the Saudi state's dependence on the country's Wahhabi religious establishment is putting the country at risk of internal acts of jihadist violence.
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Attack on French Church Is a Tipping Point in IS Strategy
July 28, 2016
The terror attack by Islamic State loyalists in a Roman Catholic Church in France this week was an illustration of IS's strategy of expanding its jihadi attacks against soft targets in Europe and reflected the systematic strategy of IS leadership to destabilize European countries from within by polarizing and radicalizing European societies along confessional lines.
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