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Syria’s Idlib Province Is Islamist State-in-the-Making
June 17, 2019
The unfolding humanitarian crisis provoked by the Syrian regime’s escalating war to retake the Idlib Province from violent Islamist extremists is also an intensifying security crisis with implications for the Mideast and the US.
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OIC Targets Central Asia for Sharia Finance
June 17, 2019
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is taking measures to grow sharia financing as the bedrock of private sector expansion in the crucial geopolitical region of Central Asia.
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Growing IS Beachhead in Afghanistan Poses Global Threat
June 17, 2019
US military officials report grave concerns over the global threat posed by the consolidation of an Islamic State (IS) beachhead in Afghanistan’s northeastern border areas with Pakistan.
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Decades of Islamism Have Imperiled Iran’s Financial Sector
June 17, 2019
Four decades of Islamist politics under Iran’s theocratic regime, which has seconded policy reform to the priority of exporting and financing the Islamic revolution, have pushed the country’s banking and finance system to the brink of implosion.
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CAIR Wins Pressure Campaign Against “Islamophobic” Speaker
June 17, 2019
The Philadelphia chapter of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) succeeded in its campaign to pressure the US Army War College to cancel an invited speaker whose book CAIR characterized as Islamophobic and racist because of its historical analysis of jihadist expansion.