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OIC Pushes Peacebuilding Role on Behalf of Muslims in Southeast Asia Conflicts
January 14, 2016
In a visit to Thailand, the Saudi Secretary General of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") has offered to facilitate a peacebuilding process between the government of Thailand and Muslim separatist insurgents in the country's southern provinces, while also positioning the OIC as the interlocutor for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Muslim separatist groups in the southern Philippines.
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IS Attacks Show Dangerous Pattern of Expanding Networks, Support, Threats
January 14, 2016
The pattern of Islamic State ("IS") attacks over the past year points to the extremist group's ability to build global collaborative networks with violent Islamist groups, implement deadly assaults on civilian economic and social targets, and inspire lone-wolf attacks by sympathizers in Western countries.
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Suicide Bomber Rocks Istanbul in Likely IS Warning to Turkey
January 14, 2016
Turkish state officials have identified the perpetrator of the lethal suicide-bombing attack in one of Istanbul's major tourist centers as a Syrian citizen who entered Turkey as part of the massive influx of economic migrants, but security experts warn that the attack constitutes a message from the Islamic State ("IS") against Turkey's cooperation with the international coalition against IS.
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Boko Haram Continues Jihadi Expansion into Cameroon
January 13, 2016
Female suicide bombers from the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram staged a lethal attack on worshipers in a mosque in northern Cameroon, an indicator of Boko Haram's sustained, unrelenting expansion of jihadi activities aimed to impose sharia rule across the West African countries of Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.
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Benard: Islamic Self-Estrangement Plays Role in Violence
January 12, 2016
Author Cheryl Benard writes that recent Islamist attacks in the West have demonstrated that supporting moderate forms of Islam is not enough to supplant the religion's more violent strains and argues that Western countries instead must find ways to aid those within the religion who favor Islamic integration with Western society and culture.
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