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Taliban Chief's Death Reveals Bad-Worse Spectrum of Islamists in Afghanistan
July 31, 2015
Security experts on Southwest Asia have expressed surprising concerns that the reported death of Taliban chief Mullah Omar could provoke a fragmentation of the militant Islamist group at a time when Great Power governments have been carefully negotiating with the Taliban to normalize relations with the Afghan government and to serve as a bulwark against the regional spread of more extremist Islamist factions affiliated with the Islamic State ("IS").
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Saudis Hit Reset Button with Hamas for Sunni Coalition Against IS and Iran
July 31, 2015
The conservative Wahhabi regime in Saudi Arabia is moving aggressively toward detente with the militant Palestinian group Hamas, as part of a broader consolidation of Sunni actors that view Shiite Iran and the Sunni-fanatic Islamic State ("IS") as the major threats to order in the Mideast.
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Prominent London Mosque on Terrorism Watch List
July 30, 2015
One of London's most prominent mosques, Finsbury Park Mosque, is blacklisted on Thomson Reuters' well-known risk-analysis database for terrorism, which aggregates financial crime data linked to terrorist activities.
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Sunni-Shiite Realpolitik Causes a Realignment of Militant Islamist Groups
July 29, 2015
Saudi Arabia and Iran are leading a Sunni-Shiite balance of power struggle for hegemony in the Mideast, also lining up support from militant Islamist groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood on the Sunni side and Hezbollah on the Shiite side.
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Radical Islamist Threat Is Redefining the Geopolitics of Central Asia
July 29, 2015
The expansion of radical-militant Islamist groups across Central Asia is creating a transnational security threat that has begun to reshape the geopolitics of shared interests among the key actors in both NATO and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ("SCO").
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