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US Targets IS Chemical Weapons Facilities in Iraq
March 16, 2016
Based on information from a captured member of Islamic State ("IS") leadership tasked with research and development of chemical weapons, the US-led military coalition against IS conducted a series of airstrikes that successfully "disrupted and degraded" chemical weapons production facilities in Iraq.
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Migration in Europe Intensifies Risks from Demands of Parallel Sharia System
March 16, 2016
The massive migration flows of Syrian refugees into Europe throws into sharp relief the unresolved, growing challenges to social cohesion and order stemming from demands by Muslim communities in many EU member states for parallel legal structures and jurisdictions built on sharia law.
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EU Commission Considers Eliminating High-Denomination Euros to Counter Islamist Extremism
March 10, 2016
The European Commission is opening an inquiry into a cessation in the printing of the 500-euro bill in the face of empirical indicators that Islamist extremist groups are relying on the high-denomination note as an easy means for huge cash movements to support global, violent and non-violent Islamist radical activities.
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US Attack Against Al-Shabaab Reveals Resurgence of Somali Islamist Extremism
March 10, 2016
Behind the successes of this past week's sequential attacks by US and Somali forces against the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabaab is the reality of al-Shabaab's resilience and resurgence as a threat extending beyond Somalia, based on the group's successful shift to asymmetrical warfare tactics, high-casualty urban and cross-border targeting, and collaborative training and weaponization with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ("AQAP").
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Global Islamic Summit to Meet in Indonesia on Palestine
March 09, 2016
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority state, is hosting an extraordinary summit of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") on the issue of the "continuing expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, the status of Jerusalem," with the global Islamic bloc expected to issue a declaration calling for international action on behalf of Palestinians.
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