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US Repatriates IS Foreign Fighters for Trial, Pushes European Allies to Follow Suit
October 09, 2020
The United States is addressing the "foreign fighter problem", repatriating for trial and prosecution an initial group of 27 individuals out of what is estimated to be hundreds of American citizens who fought as combatants for IS, urging its European allies to follow suit.
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Iran's Main Islamist Proxy in Iraq Has Longterm Strategy for Regional Change & Global Reach
October 06, 2020
The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to sponsor multiple Shiite militias and para-state structures inside Iraq, with Tehran's main proxy, the Kata'ib Hizballah actively building out its Iraq-based militia activities with an interlocking set of regional and global influence-building operations.
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Competing Islamisms Will Shape Future Afghanistan
October 06, 2020
Competing Islamisms are at the core of peace negotiations between the warring government of Afghanistan and the Taliban militants, with the Taliban favoring Islamist policies on gender segregation and speech freedoms as well as sharia-compliant banking and finance, while the Afghan government favors a more hybrid political-economic and social system that integrates Islamic ideas with Western practices and institutions.
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Pakistan Social Disintegration Follows Rising Anti-Shiite Sectarian Discourse & Mainstreaming of Jihadist Groups
October 06, 2020
Pakistan's social cohesion is showing signs of disintegration due to intensifying anti-Shiite discourse by the country's Sunni-majority religious and political elites, who are calling for an expansion of the country's blasphemy laws to target Shiites.
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Turkey Expands Islamist Geopolitics to Target Israel
October 06, 2020
Turkey's Islamist President Erdogan has laid out the NATO member's geopolitical revisionist ambitions towards Israel, declaring Jerusalem a city whose al-Aqsa Mosque, located in the shared space with the Jewish Temple Mount, must be liberated by Turkey.
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