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Jihadists Kidnap Women in Burkina Faso in Further Destabilization of African Security Environment
January 17, 2023
Jihadists kidnapped an estimated 60 women in Burkina Faso, where chronic poverty and poor governance have aggravated the country’s ongoing vulnerability to al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants whose operations are producing a precipitous in destabilization of the African Continent’s security environment.
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Times Square New Year's Eve Attacker Brought Up on Federal Charges of Terrorism for Jihadist Commitments
January 17, 2023
The attempted murder charges against the assailant who attacked New York police officers with a machete at the Times Square New Year's Even celebrations is now being brought up on federal charges of terrorism on account of his self-declared violent Islamist commitments, including his intention to wage jihad against the US government.
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IS Suicide Bomber Hits Kabul as Competing Islamist Groups Destabilize Afghanistan
January 17, 2023
IS claimed responsibility for a multi-casualty suicide bombing outside the Foreign Ministry in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, with the attack underscoring the destabilizing security environment and human costs of the jihadist competition for hegemony between IS and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime.
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Pakistan’s High School Textbooks Radicalize Youth With Teachings on Islamic Supremacy, Global Islamist Commitment & Denigration of Non-Muslims
January 17, 2023
Pakistan’s intensifying Islamist militancy and violence is part of the broader radicalization of society in the nuclear-armed South Asian country that is deliberately cultivated in high school textbooks, which teach a triumphalist Islamist nationalism at home that denigrates non-Muslims, and Islamist globalism as a foreign policy project that aspires to establish a dominant, transnational Islamic world.
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US Announces $10 Mn Bounty on Somalia’s Al-Shabaab Leader
January 11, 2023
In a move signaling the intensification of US counter-terrorism operations against Islamist extremism in Africa, the State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program announced a $10 million bounty on Maalim Ayman, the al-Shabaab military mastermind of the 2020 attack by the Somali-based jihadist group on a Kenya based used by US counter-terrorism forces active in East Africa.