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Italy Expels IS-Supporting Moroccan Imam as Preventive Security Measure
January 13, 2020
Italy's Interior Minister confirmed the repatriation of a Moroccan Imam because of evidence of his support for the Islamic State.
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France Summit Aims at Improved Security Measures to Counter Widening Islamist Front in West Africa
January 13, 2020
France’s President is convening his West African counterparts in a summit to discuss urgent improvements in cooperative military and security measures to counter the expanding operations of diverse Islamist extremist groups across West Africa.
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Iranians Protest Authoritarianism of Islamic Republic in Aftermath of Downing of Civilian Aircraft
January 13, 2020
Nationwide protests continued across Iran, calling for resignation of the Islamist regime’s supreme religious leader in the aftermath of the regime’s admission that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian International Airlines civilian flight.
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Reducing Hezbollah's Capacity for Islamist Terrorism Depends on Disrupting Their Criminal Networks
January 13, 2020
Empirical evidence from the US Drug Enforcement Agency underscores that Hezbollah's capacity for funding and executing Islamist ideological diffusion and terrorism depends on disrupting the Shiite Islamist extremist group's globalized network of criminal activities.
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Social Reform Protests in Lebanon Reveal Weaknesses of Hezbollah's Islamist Sectarian Model
January 13, 2020
The multiple systemic problems in Lebanon's economic, political, and social sectors has generated a near-continuous series of popular protests cutting across religious communal lines, highlighting the weaknesses in Iran-supported Hezbollah's Shiite Islamist sectarian model.