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Jihadist Groups Resilient in Sahel as French Forces Withdraw
July 12, 2021
Jihadist groups across West Africa are proving resilient in implementing sharia law across the Sahel region, at a time when France is shutting down its seven-year troop presence designed to push back Islamist extremism and, instead, turning to participate in a multi-European force deviated to countering the spread of al-Qaeda and Islamic State groups in Africa.
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Hamas Joins Other Islamist Militant Groups in Running Child Training Camps
July 07, 2021
Hamas leadership announced a summer camp program for youth recruitment and training in the military operations of the Islamic terrorist group, joining other Islamist militant groups such as Iran's Al-Mahdi Brigades and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in ideological indoctrination and weapons use for purposes of Islamist operations in the Middle East and beyond.
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Boko Haram & Bandits Drive Lawlessness in Nigeria
July 07, 2021
Voice Of America reports that the degrading conditions of lawlessness in Nigeria are being driven by militants from the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group and other bandits, who recently kidnapped more than 140 high schools students and teachers, as well as patients from one of the country's National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Center.
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Taliban Captures Territory & Materiel in Afghanistan
July 07, 2021
NBC reports that the Taliban is advancing their goal of implementing a sharia state in Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws its peacekeeping forces, matching their territorial gains with capture of military materiel from the Afghan government and continuing to intensify targeted attacks against those opposed to an Islamist regime in the country.
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The Guardian: Taliban Continue Advance Towards Full Control of Afghanistan
July 05, 2021
The militant Islamist Taliban are contingent their steady advance across Afghanistan, taking advantage of the slow, gradual withdrawal of NATO and other stabilization forces to fight for full control over the geopolitically important South Asian state.