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Female Jihadi Plotters Cop to Preparing Homeland Terror Attacks in NYC
August 26, 2019
Two women from Queens, New York entered guilty pleas to "preparing for jihad" terror attacks in New York City, in a federal trial underway in the city of Brooklyn.
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Geopolitics of Eastern Syria Is the Linchpin of Stopping IS Resurgence
August 26, 2019
The geopolitics of northeastern Syria is the territorial linchpin of future Great Power efforts to prevent a resurgence of the remnant caliphate forces still fighting there, but because US policymakers stand at cross-purposes with regional allies and partners such as Turkey and Iraq and with competitors and hostiles such as Russia and Iran, the possibilities for stabilization of a permanent post-IS reality hinge on the strategic control over that part of Syria that intersects with Turkey and Iraq.
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Pakistani Mosque Blast Targets Afghan Taliban and Underscores Jihadist Instability
August 21, 2019
A lethal bomb explosion in mosque in Pakistan frequented by Afghan Taliban leaders points to competing jihadist and state interests at play in the US-Taliban negotiations aiming at an American forces withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Turkey’s Islamist Infighting Infuses Tensions Into UN & OIC
August 20, 2019
Turkey’s Islamist government is taking its feud with and its former Islamist ally of the Fetullah Gulen grassroots movement to the global platforms of the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), but both intergovernmental groups have rejected Ankara’s efforts to use politicize the global platforms for an intra-Islamist battle.
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New Al-Shabaab Video Calls for Worldwide Jihad Against Foreign Enemies and Muslim Leaders of "Disbelief"
August 20, 2019
Al-Shabaab, the Somali-based branch of al Qaeda, is calling for Muslims worldwide to support a twin-track jihadist strategy for a global caliphate.
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