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NATO Faces Islamic Republic From Within
July 28, 2020
NATO is facing the imminent possibility of a member that is an Islamist state, with Turkey’s steady move towards becoming an Islamic republic constituting an internal threat to the sustainability of the Transatlantic Alliance.
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UN Report Warns of Pakistani Jihadist Cooperation with IS Afghanistan
July 28, 2020
SUMMARY: A new report by the United Nations (UN) is warning that one of Pakistan's most radical Islamist groups, Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), is cooperating with the Islamic State's (IS) branch in Afghanistan, in a collaboration by two jihadist groups that reject any form of government in the geopolitically crucial South Asian region that does not adhere strictly to sharia law and that does not wage war on the West.
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Germany Foreign Ministry Makes Controversial Hire of Anti-Israel Islamist for Religion and Foreign Policy Team
July 28, 2020
Germany's Foreign Ministry has hired Nurhan Soykan, the Secretary General of the German Council of Muslims, as an advisor on the role of religion in peacebuilding, a move that has generated domestic and international controversy because of Soykan's affiliation with the Iran-supported al-Quds (Jerusalem), an annual event in Germany that brings together a constellation of groups calling for the destruction of Israel.
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Russian Intelligence Arrests Radicals from Banned Uzbek Jihadist Group on Charges of Financing Islamists in Syria
July 28, 2020
Russia's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), announced the detention of more than 20 individuals active underground in the outlawed Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, on charges of providing terrorist financing for jihadists in Syria and of recruiting Islamist radicals across several of Russia's southern regions.
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Infamous Brit IS Terrorists in U.S Custody Admit to Crimes Against American Citizens
July 28, 2020
Two of the British citizens dubbed “the Beatles,” who became infamous as IS foreign fighters, are in US military custody and facing prosecution for their admission to crimes including ransom, torture, and beheading of Americans held in their captivity on behalf of caliphate forces in Iraq and Syria.
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