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Final Fight to Oust IS Highlights Caliphate’s Human Costs
July 24, 2019
The final military push to oust the remnants of Islamic State (IS) forces hunkered down in northern Syria is highlighting the massive human costs and humanitarian crisis caused by the Islamist group's caliphate project in Syria and Iraq.
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UK Regulators Consider Banning Islamic TV Channel
July 24, 2019
The UK Office of Communications is considering a ban on Islamic television channel “Prace TV” for likening homosexuals to “pigs influenced by Satan,” characterizing magicians as practitioners of witchcraft who “should be killed,” and calling for the death penalty for individuals who cease to practice Islam.
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Islamist Discourse Targets Political Authoritarianism in Mideast
July 24, 2019
Political Islamists and putatively apolitical Salafist Islamic groups across the Middle East are engaging in regular discussions, with a dose of skepticism about each other’s motives, about possible cooperation to oppose the region’s authoritarian political regimes.
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Taliban Celebrate Terrorism Against US, Europe
July 24, 2019
The latest video released on the official media platforms of the Taliban characterizes the 9/11 Islamist terror attacks on the US and the 3/04 Islamist terror bombings in Madrid as justified, anti-imperialist jihad.
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Islamist Extremists Continue Assaults in East Africa
July 24, 2019
The resilience and malignancy of Islamist extremist groups in East Africa were on lethal display in Somalia as al-Shabaab perpetrated a multi-fatality suicide bombing attack in Mogadishu only one week after the al-Qaeda affiliated group executed a lethal attack in a Somali port city on the Red Sea.