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Central Africa's Security Environment Deteriorates Under Assaults by Islamist Extremists
January 03, 2020
The regional security environment in West Africa continues to deteriorate because of the operations of Islamist extremists, evidenced in the recent murder of 18 civilian villagers by jihadist militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist militant force active in neighboring Uganda.
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US Conducts Preemptive Strike on IRCG Head Who Masterminded Shiite Islamist Expansion
January 03, 2020
The US Secretary of Defense confirmed that yesterday’s drone strike killing General Qassim Suleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Force (IRGC), as well as of senior leadership in pro-Iran militia active in Iraq, was a preemptive strike against plans for the IRGC to attack American military and diplomatic personnel across the Mideast.
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OIC Ramps Up Presence in Bangladesh with Declaration of 2020 Youth Capital
January 01, 2020
The 57 member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has declared Bangladesh the OIC Youth Capital for 2020, ramping up the global Islamic entity's presence in the densely populated, Muslim-majority South Asian country.
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Taliban Ratcheted Up 2019 Lethal Attacks on US Troops in Afghanistan To Five-Year Peak
January 01, 2020
Deaths of US military personnel in Afghanistan by Taliban attacks reached a five-year peak in 2019, as the Islamist group intensified its jihadist operations in an effort to get the US to quit Afghanistan as soon as possible.
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Qatar-Turkey Alliance Broadens Transnational Islamist Extremism, Threatens US Strategic Interests
December 31, 2019
Competition for leadership of global Islamism between a Saudi-Emirati alliance versus a Turkish-Qatari axis has intensified over the past two years, with the latter relationship making measurable gains in the global expansion of Islamic Brotherhood-style Islamist ideology, illegal economic activities, and Islamist insurgencies and terrorist activities, all of which, according to a new report by Washington think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, constitute strategic threats to US strategic interests, given America’s reliance on Ankara and Doha for military operations in Eurasia and Africa.
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