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Tunisia's Modernization Policies Catalyze Islamist Blowback
July 18, 2016
The disproportionate number of Tunisian jihadis fighting with the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq, and Libya, as well as the role of Tunisians in the spate of Islamist terror assaults in France, points to the blowback against Tunisia's democratic liberalization policies and social modernization strategies.
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Congressional Report Reveals Saudi Arabia as State Sponsor of Terror
July 18, 2016
Release of the previously classified sections of the congressional inquiry into the 9/11 Islamist terror attack against the US reveals the Saudi Arabian regime's consistent moves to impede Washington's efforts to counter the globalization of al-Qaeda extremism and violence, as well as myriad connections between Saudi state officials and the 9/11 perpetrators.
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Failed Coup Attempt in Turkey Bares Country's Roiling Islamist Groups
July 18, 2016
Turkey's autocratic Islamist government's blaming of Pennsylvania-based Turkish Islamist cleric Fetullah Gulen for a failed coup attempt lays bare the deep rupture that has developed between the governing Islamist AK Party and the vast, wealthy, grassroots network of Gulenist religious schools and police and judicial actors credited with the initial success of the AK Party.
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UN Conference Seeks Media Shift in Migrant Portrayal
July 13, 2016
UNESCO recently partnered with the Russian Federal Research and Methodology Centre for Tolerance, Psychology and Education to organize a conference on how to promote a positive vision of migrants, in the media and elsewhere, as contributors to the UN's agenda on sustainable development.
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IS Shifts Foreign Terror Tactics
July 13, 2016
Politico reports that French security authorities have warned of approximately 400 to 500 people who have returned to the country after fighting under the Islamic State who may play a part in the shift of IS tactics toward car bombs and other remote attacks permitting the assailants to avoid being killed during their operations.
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