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US Report Raises Red Flag on IS Resilience and Threat to American Mission in Northeaster Syria
May 29, 2020
A new report by the Inspectors General from the U.S. State and Defense Departments and USAID raises red flags about IS threats to the American Mission in Northeast Syria, primarily generated from prison camps for IS regional and foreign fighters who are using the camps as platforms for radicalization and recruitment.
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Germany Signals Growing Alarm about Turkey's Islamo-Nationalist Reach
May 29, 2020
The decision by the German state of Hessen to stop partnering with the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) on educational programs signals broader concerns among Western European governments about the use of religion as a nationalist platform for advancing the foreign-policy interests of Turkey's Islamist regime and the Muslim Brotherhood
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Parchizadeh: Liberal Critics of Iran's Theocratic Regime Do Not Constitute "Islamophobia"
May 29, 2020
According to analyst Reza Parchizadeh, historical evidence from Iran's Islamist theocratic regime has laid bare the need of Western intellectuals to engage in liberal critiques of Islamism's totalizing ideology without facing baseless charges of Islamophobia.
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Islamists Wage War Against Education in Burkina Faso
May 27, 2020
According to a detailed new report by Human Rights Watch, diverse Islamist extremist groups affiliated with both Al Qaeda and Islamic State are expanding their campaign to control West Africa, by waging a war of violence, intimidation, and torture against teachers, administrators, students, and school sites across Burkina Faso.
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Taliban On the Brink of Achieving Goal of Control Over Afghanistan
May 27, 2020
After two decades of unending jihadist warfare, the Islamist extremist Taliban movement is on the brink of achieving its objective of control over Afghanistan, sustained by lucrative criminal narcotics activities and steady recruitment through a combination of ideological propaganda and terror.