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Taliban Edge Closer to Regaining Authority in Afghanistan
July 23, 2019
The complexities of the Afghanistan peace talks may unintentionally leave the Taliban and other jihadist groups in power in the geopolitically critical country.
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Turkey Exports Islamism Across Mideast Region
July 19, 2019
Turkey's foreign policy of exporting the ruling party’s Islamist ideology relies on government agencies and "charities" that fund youth programs and build schools in neighboring countries, with the goal of establishing an international body that resuscitates the Ottoman caliphate in Istanbul.
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OIC Ministers Condemn Israeli Actions to “Judaize Jerusalem”
July 18, 2019
The foreign ministers of the 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have issued a condemnation of Israel’s recent launch of the Jewish Pilgrims archaeological project in Jerusalem as a “colonial activity” that will accelerate the Israeli government’s attempt to “Judaize Jerusalem.”
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Captured Operative Explains Totalitarian Structure of IS
July 18, 2019
A recently captured Turkish operative of the Islamic State (IS) described the totalitarian structure of the Islamist organization as rooted in the role of Muslim clerics and Koranic sources that justify no internal dissent and the use of beheadings and other forms of capital punishment against Christian and Jewish “infidels.”
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Pakistan Serves as Incubator for Jihadist Groups
July 18, 2019
Pakistan’s arrest of the alleged mastermind of the 2008 terrorist attacks against the Indian city of Mumbai has shed new light on the geopolitically critical Southwest Asian country as an incubator and haven for some of the world’s most dangerous jihadist groups and ideologies.
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