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U.S. Federal Court Sentences Kansas Woman for ISIS Activities in Syria
November 07, 2022
A Kansas woman known by the moniker “Empress of ISIS” was sentenced to 20 years in practice by a U.S. federal court for her terrorism activities in Syria, where she trained women and girls for an all-female battalion supporting the Islamist terror group’s activities in the Middle East, and for her role in planning possible jihadist actions inside the United States.
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AQ Releases New Manuel on Jihad in Sudan
November 02, 2022
Sudan's leading Al Qeada (AQ) ideologue and collaborator with Osama bin Laden has condemned democracy as an "infidel project" and called for a jihad against the government of Sudan, in a detailed how-to manual published by an Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) publishing house, with the compilation of ideological, organizational, and operational guidelines for jihadis providing a window into the clear and present danger posed by the durable AQ leadership structure.
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IS Militants Perpetrate Shiraz Shrine Attack in Iran
November 02, 2022
Iran's Islamist regime has vowed revenge against the "takfiri" perpetrators, a category used for Sunni hardliners, after IS militants claimed responsibility for a multi-casulaty attack on a Shiite shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, with Tehran's leadership characterizing the sectarian attack as opportunist violence by external actors aiming to destabilize the country during the weeks'-long mass protests after a young Kurdish woman was killed in police custody on charges of violating the regime's sharia headscarf policy.
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Islamist Groups Expand Online Content Aimed at Recruitment in Latin America
November 02, 2022
Islamist extremist groups are systematically expanding their Spanish-language online content, including ideological and terrorist-technological sites, in a move aimed at influence-building in Latin America, with radicalization and recruitment in the Western Hemisphere part of jihadists' global strategy for expanding "extremisms and terrorism in the West," according to Spain's leading strategic studies tank Elcano Royal Institute.
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Al-Qaeda Branch Makes Gains in Northwest Syria
October 26, 2022
The al-Qaeda affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group has taken control of the large city of Afrian in northwestern Syria, in a move signaling the durability of the jihadist threat inside Syria, where poor governance by Damascus, feuding US-supported Kurdish factions and Turkish-supported Islamist militant groups, and continuing external interference by external states has created growing opportunities for resurgent jihadism as a threat to the security environment of the geopolitically crucial Eastern Mediterranean region.
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