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Turkey Uses Soft Power of Islamist Monies and Propaganda to Penetrate US
February 05, 2020
Turkey’s Islamist authoritarian government is using Islamism as a soft power tool to penetrate the United States, exposed in the recent UN flagging of money transfers from scandal-ridden Turkish government foundations to a U.S.-based Turkish Islamist entity focused on influence-building among young American Muslims.
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US DoD Reports on Resilience and Global Scope of IS Threat
February 05, 2020
A new U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”) study warns that the Islamic State (“IS”) constitutes an ongoing, global security threat, given the jihadist group’s unexpected resilience in operational capacity in Syria and Iraq, as well as the spread of active IS franchises in South Asia and Africa whose radicalization, recruitment, and violence have globalized the dangers and impacts of Islamist extremism.
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Al-Qaeda Franchise Claims Responsibility for 2019 Attack on US Naval Air Base in FL
February 05, 2020
Al-Qaeda’s franchise in the Arabian Peninsula (“AQAP”) has belatedly claimed credit for the December 2019 shooting attack by a Saudi Air Force trainee on the US Naval Air Base in Pensacola, Florida, underscoring the twin threats of AQIP’s commitment to global reach and the penetration of Saudi Arabia’s military by AQAP Islamist radicals.
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UN Says Afghanistan Is Key Geopolitical Platform for Global Jihadist Threat from Taliban-Al-Qaeda Partnership
February 05, 2020
The United Nations’ (“UN”) special team that tracks terrorist groups worldwide has concluded that extensive cooperation between the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, as well as active recruitment of jihadist from surrounding Central Asian countries, makes the South Asian geo-space a crucial geopolitical platform for projecting Islamist extremist ideology and violence.
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Jihadist Threat in West Africa Prompts Mali Government to Increase Military Recruitment
February 03, 2020
The sustained violence of jihadist groups in West Africa is prompting the government of Mali to ramp up its military recruitment by 50% in 2020.
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