Violence and Security

Competition Aggravates Sectarian Violence in Pakistan

January 27, 2021

According to Modern Diplomacy, Pakistan has become a target for geopolitical and religious competition between Sunni-majority Islamist theocracies of the Arabian Peninsula and Iran's Shiite-majority Islamist theocracy, aggravating intolerance and violence as well as exposing the limits of pluralism within Islamism as a political ideology.
UK Prison Expert Warns Prisons are Incubators for Islamist Extremism

January 26, 2021

A former governor of Britain's prison system is warning that the possible closure of special isolation units for convicted Islamist terrorists will create conditions for Islamist proselytism and radicalization inside prisons, making the sites into active incubators for Islamist terrorism.
UN Warns of Humanitarian Crisis in Mozambique

January 26, 2021

The United Nations (UN) warns that the expanding war by jihadist militants aiming to impose a caliphate structure in Mozambique is generating a growing humanitarian crisis, as IS-affiliated violence has displaced more than half a million people and has forced French energy giant Total to quit massive natural gas projects signed with the Mozambican government.
Islamist Radicalism Intensifies Across African Continent

January 26, 2021

Critical Threats has published A review of the complex Islamist extremist ecosystem spreading radical ideology and carrying out militant violence across Africa highlighting the degrading state and human security conditions across the African Continent.
Africa's Jihadist Past Is a Growing Global Security Threat

January 19, 2021

Jordan Cope writing for The National Interest explains that the roots of Al Qaeda in Africa can be traced to the ecosystem of jihadist groups now active across Sub-Saharan Africa and that they are growing as a global security threat, destabilizing the region and threatening Europe.
NY Court Sentence Uzbek National for IS Activities in US

January 19, 2021

A US federal court judge convicted an Uzbek national for conspiring to provide material support to IS, citing evidence the he provided funds for a foreign fighter for travel from America to the IS caliphate front in Syria.
Turkey Gives Safe Haven to Hamas, Israel Refuses Offer of Friendship

January 13, 2021

The Israel government continues to rebuff overtures of rapprochement by Turkey's Islamist government, due to Ankara’s safe haven for Hamas leaders’, who plot malign activities and violence against Israel.
IS Resilience due to Shifts in Recruitment, Financing, and Operations

January 06, 2021

DW.com reports that the territorial defeat of the IS caliphate in Iraq and Syria did not end the threat posed by the Islamist terror grouping, which is using a deliberate recovery strategy of successful digital recruitment, targeted European operations, relocation of core activities to West Africa, and gradual rebuilding of financing networks for heavy weapons acquisitions.
US Policies Prove Weak at Countering Homegrown Islamist Extremism

January 06, 2021

According to the new book Homegrown: ISIS in America, the United States faces sustained domestic jihadist activity, despite the diverse array of US government policies designed to counter homegrown Islamist extremism.
West Africa Jihadists Kill Village Self-Defense Members in Attack in Cameroon

January 06, 2021

The Deccan Herald reports that in an effort to expand Islamic extremism, Jihadists associated with the Islamic State of West Africa Province staged a cross-border attack from Nigeria into Cameroon, killing three members of a local village self-defense squad.