Violence and Security

Turkey Readies to Expand Cleansing of Minorities in Northern Syria

May 27, 2022

NATO-member Turkey’s Islamo-nationalist regime is preparing for an expanded military operation in northern Syria, with regional security experts forecasting that the expansion of the Turkish military’s “occupation safe zone” in its neighbor will produce cleansing of non-Sunni religious minorities and non-Turkish ethnic minorities, as Ankara’s Islamist government aims to use force and demographic engineering to achieve its revisionist foreign policy goals.
Islamic State Continues Islamist Fratricide with Latest Attack Inside Afghanistan

May 27, 2022

The Islamic State’s Afghan franchise (Islamic State Khorasan Province, IS-K) is continuing its religious fratricidal war against Afghanistan’s Taliban Islamist regime, carrying out a series of multi-casualty attacks against a series of civilian targets near the country’s capital city of Kabul, in an longing effort to destabilize the South Asian country and wrest control from its jihadi competitor.
Turkey’s Support for Islamist Radical Financing Revealed in US Treasury Designation

May 26, 2022

Support by NATO-member Turkey’s Islamist regime for financing and operations support to Islamist terrorism was revealed in a recent designation by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of an Indonesian national living in Turkey as an IS financial facilitator, underscoring the permissive conditions inside Turkey.
IS Radicals Penetrate US With Plot to Execute Former President George Bush

May 26, 2022

The US Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) has arrested an Islamic State (IS) supporter plotting the assassination of finer U.S. President George W. Bush, with the FBI sting operation revealing a well advanced plan for seven IS assassins from Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, and Denmark to enter the United States via the southern border to implement the assassination plan.
Leaked British Report Generates Controversy About Scope of Islamist Extremist

May 25, 2022

A forthcoming evaluative report commissioned by Britain’s Home Office, which is responsible for immigration, security, and domestic law and order, on the efficacy and direction of the Prevent Strategy designed as a counter-terrorism program, is generating controversy because of the conclusions by the task force head that Prevent should recommit to focus on Islamist extremism as a clear and present danger to Europe, rather than divert focus and resources to rightwing extremism.
Arrest of Islamist Militants Shows IS Threat Remains Active in Indonesia

May 25, 2022

Indonesia’s counter-terrorism task force arrested two dozen individuals for suspected affiliation with the Islamic State (IS), with the suspects belonging to the East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) extremist group that has perpetrated violence against police and Christian minority communities in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
VOA: US Special Forces Deploy to Somalia to Battle Terrorism

May 23, 2022

A decision by the US government to deploy to a 500-strong special forces unit to Somalia as part of America’s global counter-terrorism strategy reflects an acknowledgment by Euro-American and African intelligence experts that Al-Shabab, the Somali homegrown Islamist extremist group affiliated with al-Qaeda, constitutes a clear and present danger to global stability, given the organization’s ongoing jihadi operations in Somalia and the Sahel and Horn of Africa regions and in view of the transnational, extra-regional Islamist terror networks in which Al-Shabab is actively engaged.
Afghanistan’s Expanding Islamist Ecosystem Security Threat for Central Asia

May 23, 2022

The expanding ecosystem of Islamist extremist and jihadist organizations inside Afghanistan, led by the intensification of Islamic State of Khorasan (ISK) recruitment and violent operations inside the South Asian country, is generating transnational networks in the geopolitically critical region of Central Asia, presenting a security threat through radicalization that is causing political volatility, economic disruption, and social tensions.
Islamist Extremist Groups in Burkina Faso Murder, Rape, Pillage in Campaign Aimed at State Takeover

May 18, 2022

Internationally renowned Human Rights Watch reports that Islamist extremist groups affiliated with with AQ (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM) and IS (Islamic State on the Greater Sahara, ISGS) continue to wage a years-long armed campaign aimed at state takeover of the African Sahel country, with AQIM and ISGS violence having displaced over 1.8 million people and Islamist militants engaging widespread murder and systemic rape, pillaging and destruction of local economies and infrastructure.
Social Violence in Indonesia Highlights Islamists’ Rejection of Pluralism

May 18, 2022

Recent episodes of social violence in Indonesia, the worlds most populous Muslim-majority country, involving Islamist attacks against individuals, religious minority sites, and Islamic organizations advocating religious tolerance all share the common theme of rejection of pluralism as expressed in rule of law and equality before the state, pointing to the urgency of developing best practices for law enforcement, judicial neutrality, and inter-religious dialogue, in order to combat hardline Islamist ideas and groups that reject the principles and practices I’d pluralism.