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US to Investigate UAE & Saudi Transfer of American Weapons to Islamist Extremists in Yemen
December 04, 2019
Reports that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been transferring American weapons purchased by the two Wahhabi Islamic theocracies to Islamist extremist groups active in Yemen, including Iranian proxies and al Qaeda affiliates, have been met with a decision by the US Pentagon and State Department to send an investigatory team to the evaluate facts on the ground.
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Saudi Arabia Sponsors OIC Cultural Festival for Joint Islamic Action
December 04, 2019
Saudi Arabia’s government convened a symposium of representatives from the 57 member-states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Islamic cultures, with the agenda of exploring the prospect for coordinated OIC action for the promotion of joint Islamic cultural policies worldwide.
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IS Christmas Day Plotters Sentenced in Australian Courts
December 04, 2019
Australian courts sentenced three men to decades-long prison sentences after their arrest and sentencing in 2016 on charges of plotting multi-site, high-casualty attacks on Christmas Day.
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Indonesia & Malaysia Set Ambitious Targets for Regional Islamic Finance & Market Integration
November 25, 2019
The governments of Indonesia and Malaysia, two of the world’s most populous Muslim majority countries, announced plans for a bilateral partnership to create regional integration of their Islamic financial markets and sharia standards-setting, including an ambitious plan by Indonesia to quadruple the country’s sharia bank assets within the next five years.
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Syria's Christians Raise Alarm as Targets of IS & Turkish Cleansing
November 25, 2019
Syria's diverse Christian minority communities are calling international attention to the targeted violence being perpetrated against them by remaining IS forces, invading Turkish forces, and other jihadist groups active northeast Syria in the wake of US special forces withdrawal, with Christian leaders describing their plight as religious cleansing by state and non-state Islamist actors.
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