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West Africa Jihadists Kill Village Self-Defense Members in Attack in Cameroon
January 06, 2021
The Deccan Herald reports that in an effort to expand Islamic extremism, Jihadists associated with the Islamic State of West Africa Province staged a cross-border attack from Nigeria into Cameroon, killing three members of a local village self-defense squad.
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Jihadist Militias Expand Influence at Syria-Iraq Border Checkpoints
January 06, 2021
Iran-supported militias from Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are expanding the transnational influence of Shiite sectarian Islamism by running financial extraction operations at key trading checkpoints on the Syria-Iraq border.
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Iranian "Ghost Militias" Threaten & Attack Iraqi’s Working with Coalition Forces
January 06, 2021
BBC reports that in an effort to increase Islamist rule in Iraq, Iraqi translators, contractors, and embassy staffers working with US and UK coalition forces are facing increased threats, coercion, and direct attacks by « ghost militias » linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Iran Threatens U.S. on Anniversary of Soleimani's Assassination
January 06, 2021
Newsweek reports that Iran's President Ayatollah Hassan Rouhani has threatened retaliation against the United States in the approach to the one-year anniversary of the US drone-strike assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, which works export revolutionary Shiite Islamism globally.
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Indonesia Bans Islamic Defenders Front
January 06, 2021
The government of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim--majority country, has outlawed the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a radical organization using violent tactics to target religious minorities and impose an austere interpretation of Islam, after the FPI's leader recently called for a "moral revolution" against the government.
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