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France 24: Al-Shabaab Continues Jihad in Somalia’s Capital
February 02, 2021
Somalia’s homegrown jihadist group, al-Shabaab, continued its war to create a sharia state, with a truck bomb and militant assault on the capital city of Mogadishu, targeting a major hotel frequented by state and international officials, generating civilian casualties.
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IS Targets Women in Turkish-Occupied Syria
February 02, 2021
Resurgent IS militants operating in the Turkish occupied zone in northern Syria are targeting Arab and Kurdish women for assassination, signaling the Islamist extremist group’s resilience, as well as cooperation with Turkey.
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Turkey Threatens France with Mobilization of Islamist Groups Across EU
February 02, 2021
Turkey’s President Erdogan has threatened France’s President Emmanuel Macron that Turkey will mobilize nationalist-Islamist groups in France and across Europe, in response to critiques of Ankara’s foreign policy adventurism and support for radical Islamism, stating that “no European in any part of the world can walk safely in the streets".
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Iran Ups Spying Convictions Against U.S. & EU Dual Citizens
January 29, 2021
Iran's courts meted out a 10-year prison sentence to a dual US-Iranian citizen on espionage charges, the latest in a recent trend of non-transparent, arbitrary judicial decisions in which the Islamic theocratic regime has targeted American and European citizens with dual Iranian citizenship for spying and "corruption on earth."
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Iran & Taliban Condemn U.S. for Violence in Afghanistan
January 29, 2021
Following a meeting in Tehran, officials from the security apparatus of the Taliban and Iran's Islamic revolutionary theocracy have closed ranks in public statements blaming the United States for the protracted, decades-long violence in Afghanistan.