Violence and Security

IS Fighters Destabilize East Africa With More Violence in Resource-Rich Mozambique

October 18, 2022

Fighters from the Islamic State Mozambique Province continue to destabilize the state and human security environment in East Africa, as the durability of jihadists fighting to secure control over Mozambique’s natural gas resources in the Cabo Delgado Province on the Indian Ocean continues to generate the kind of violence that has led global energy companies to suspend their projects and that has produced humanitarian crisis conditions still unresolved, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
IS & Turkey’s Islamist Regime Cooperate in Assaults on US-Backed Kurdish Forces

October 18, 2022

US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) working to stabilize former IS caliphate territory in northeast Syria are being squeezed by resurgent IS militants emboldened by the permissive security environment caused by Turkey’s Islamist regime active in the same space.
Intergenerational Trauma Is Consequent to AQ Terror Bombing in Bali Twenty Years Ago

October 13, 2022

Survivors, family members, and friends commemorating the high-casualty suicide bombings perpetrated by an Al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate on the Indonesian island of Bali two decades ago underscored the longterm trauma transmitted intergenerationally and internationally by the terrorist attacks, reinforcing the complexity of the damaging effects of violent Islamism in world affairs.
Al Qaeda Shows Staying Power in Horn of Africa as Al Shabaab Rocks Somalia With Triple Suicide Bombing

October 10, 2022

Al Qaeda (AQ) remains resilient and an active threat to international security, evidenced in the triple suicide bombing perpetrated by AQ's Horn of Africa franchise Al Shabab, with spillover impacts for neighboring Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya.
Iran’s Supreme Leader & Chief Ayatollah Claims US & Israel Orchestrating Protests

October 05, 2022

The Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic state regime Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the United States and Israel as orchestrators of the protests that have erupted in Iran and worldwide following the death of a young woman in custody of Iran’s morality police who detained her for allegedly disobeying strict Islamist headscarf covering rules, accusing the US and Israel of supporting the protests as a tool for regime change in Iran.
Jihadism in Afghanistan Linked to Russia’s Role in Broader International Security Threats

October 05, 2022

According to eeradicalization.com, the efforts of the Taliban’s Islamist regime to position itself as a legitimate state opposed to jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) belies the complex reality of Afghanistan as a permissive space for the full constellation of Islamist extremist groups that have strong connections to the regimes of Russia and Pakistan, both of which are instrumentalizing jihadism for their respective geopolitical ambitions, with consequent aggravation of threats to global peace and order.
Lethal Attack on Hazara Mosque in Kabul Underscores Threat to Religious Minorities from Violent Islamism

October 05, 2022

A high-casualty suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan’s capital on an educational center for girls and young women belonging to the Hazara community bore all the hallmarks of previous assaults by the Taliban and Islamic State on that country’s ethnic Shiite minority, a lethal reminder of the existential threat to the community’s survival, outlined in a recent report by a UK Parliamentary committee.
Evidence of IS Genocide Against Yazidis Implicates States of Iraq, Syria, Turkey

October 05, 2022

Evidence collected and analyzed by the Yazidi Justice Committee, an ad hoc entity comprised of international legal and human rights groups, lays out the details of the Islamic State’s (IS) genocide against the Yazidi religious minority community of Iraq and Syria implicates the states of Iraq and Syria, as well as NATO- member Turkey, as complicit, suggesting that the three states are eligible for prosecution at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
Leicester Violence Shows Islamist Extremists Using Social Media to Amplify & Provoke Religious Hatred

September 28, 2022

Recent Muslim-Hindu soccer-related violence in the central United Kingdom (UK) city of Leicester was amplified by anti-Hindu social media attacks by preachers and activists on Islamist social media platforms which traffic, represented by the incendiary discourse of Islamist YouTube celebrity Mohammed Hijab.
Benin Is Latest Addition to Jihadists’ Expanding Operations in West Africa

September 28, 2022

Benin has become the latest West African littoral state to be pulled into the expanding jihadist violence in that part of the Continent, with recent attacks by the Islamic State militants adding to the deterioration in the country’s security environment caused by al Qaeda operations, and, taken as a whole, pointing to Islamist extremism as a a threat to state durability and societal cohesion.