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Leadership Changes Are No Deterrent to Islamist Extremism in Nigeria
June 04, 2021
The recent deaths of two high-profile leaders in Nigeria, including longtime leader of Boko Haram and the other, the country's Army Chief of Staff responsible for the country's counter-terrorism strategy, highlights that Islamist militant organizations fighting to impose sharia rule across the African Continent are currently winning the war.
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Rising Islamist Activities in African Sahel Prompt France’s Consideration of Stabilization Forces
June 02, 2021
The increasing radical Islamist groups’ activities in the Sahel region of Africa is leading French foreign policymakers to consider a withdrawal of the Barkhane anti-insurgency operation in the countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, with French President Emmanuel Macron warning of migration and security threats to Europe from jihadists in Africa.
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Turkish State Tracks Children in Intensification of Islamist Factionalism
June 02, 2021
The internecine struggle between Turkey’s Islamist authoritarian regime and its former ally of the Islamist Gulenist movement has begun targeting students from kindergarten through twelfth grade at Gulenist schools, based on a special database comprised by the Directorate for Information Ministry of Education, which is being used by the Turkish judiciary and police to track critics of the government and blacklist them from jobs.
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Women‘s Increasing Participation in Jihadi Operations in Indonesia
June 02, 2021
The increasing number of female perpetrators of jihadist attacks in Indonesia over the last several years points to a broader trend-line of rising participation of women in Islamist radicalization and morale-building, as well the expansion of Jihadist groups’ acceptance of women in frontline operational roles.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Shift Tactics to Maximize Militia Impact
June 01, 2021
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is using Iraq and Lebanon as pilot spaces for implementing a broader paradigm shift in the organizational structure and training of its Quds Force to create small, mobile, covert groups with multi-functional military-intelligence-technology training.
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