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U.S. 8-Year-Old Girl’s Repatriation from IS Camp Highlights Damage by Jihadis
August 05, 2021
An eight-year-old girl whose American mother married and fought with an IS jihadi is in process of being repatriated to the United States, but the legal complications, including guardianship for the girl now orphaned, as well as the social-psychological trauma, are indicative of the broader problems associated with repatriation of IS children of foreign fighters, including those from Western nations.
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UN Secretary General Warns of Clear and Present Threat of IS
August 05, 2021
The UN Secretary General issued a sobering report about the threat presented to global security by a resurgent, expansive Islamic State (IS), which has reconstituted itself in its core caliphate territory on the Iraq-Syria border and has spawned active franchises from Africa to South Asia and beyond, with strong recruitment and operational capacity.
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Resurgent Taliban Lead to Regression in Women's Rights and Security
August 02, 2021
According to field researchers from US and Canadian universities, the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan is leading to a sharp regression in women's rights and security in the face of the Islamist militant group's implementation of hardline sharia-based practices, including full-body covering under the burqa, accompaniment by a male guardian for any movement in public, and restrictions on non-Islamic education.
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OIC-Russia Cooperation Highlighted at 2021 Kazan Summit
August 02, 2021
The increasing cooperation between the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Russia is the centerpiece of the 12th International Economic Summit on Russia and the Islamic World, held in the geostrategically important city of Kazan linking Northern European and Northwestern Russian trade and commercial routes and centering the fast-growing Muslim demographic in Russia.
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Afghanistan’s Resurgent Taliban Highlights Iran’s Globalized Islamist Approach
August 02, 2021
The resurgence of the Sunni Islamist Taliban aiming to seize control of the country from the government in Kabul and targeting the Afghanistan’s Shiite Hazara minority has Iran’s regime contemplating the scope of support for its Shiite proxy militants from Syria to Pakistan to Afghanistan.
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