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Radicalized IS Women in Northeast Syria Camps Are Longterm Threat
November 12, 2019
Radicalized IS women held in detention and refugee camps in northeast Syria, mainly wives of caliphate fighters from the Mideast and abroad, constitute an ongoing ideological threat to regional stability, evidenced in their commitment to sharia-style intimidation and childhood indoctrination inside the facilities.
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Attack in Tajikistan Points to Growth of Islamist Militancy in Geopolitics of Central Asia
November 12, 2019
A lethal attack on a security checkpoint at Tajikistan’s border with Uzbekistan and Afghanistan is the latest in a series of attacks claimed by Islamic State (IS) militants, raising concerns that the porous Tajik-Afghan border is enabling the growth is a transnational Islamist militancy in the crucial heartland of Central Asia, where competitive US, Russian, and Chinese interests may be superseded by a shared goal of countering the spread and consolidation of extremist Islamism in the region.
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Turkey Pressures Germany on IS Foreign Fighter Repatriations to Europe
November 05, 2019
Senior state officials in Turkey are demanding that Germany immediately repatriate 20 German nationals captured as IS foreign fighters by Turkish troops in Syria, with Turkey's Islamist government broadly condemning EU member-states claims about security as a rationale for unwillingness to repatriate their nationals now in custody in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, after joining the jihadist caliphate.
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IS Makes Initial Announcement about Successor to Al-Baghdadi
November 05, 2019
IS media outlets have made an initial announcement about the successor "caliph" to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, offering few details about new spiritual and operational leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraushi, but making sure to indicate that the caliphate project will continue in the aftermath of al-Baghdadi's demise and despite the loss of Iraq-Syria territory.
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Lethal Islamist Attacks in Mali Underscore Resilience of AQ and IS & State Weakness in West Africa
November 05, 2019
A lethal terrorist attack by Islamist militants associated with IS (Islamic State) and AQ (al-Qaeda) against government soldiers and civilians in the West African country of Mali underscore how state failures—related to endemic poverty, human security needs, and ethnic cleavage—are being used as opportunities by Islamist extremists for ideological radicalization and operational resilience.
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