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OIC Summit Shows Tensions Between Key Islamist Regimes
June 03, 2019
Tensions at a leadership summit of the 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Saudi Arabia illustrate the competing national and geopolitical interests among members of the world's largest multilateral organization after the United Nations.
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IS Attacks Food Supply in Iraq, Syria
May 31, 2019
Islamic State (IS) forces are claiming responsibility for burning thousands of acres of fertile farmland in Syria and Iraq, using attacks on the countries' food supplies as a weapon of guerrilla warfare in the jihadists' ongoing destabilization of the the two Mideast states.
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Islamist Regimes Export Competing Brands of Religious Nationalism
May 31, 2019
The Islamist regimes of the Arabian Gulf and Turkey are using ideology, money, and weapons to export their competing brands of religious nationalism in support of diverse jihadist movements across the Middle East and Africa.
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Mecca Summit Will Address Escalating Islamist Sectarianism
May 30, 2019
Saudi Arabia is convening an emergency summit with leaders from regional Arab governments to discuss concerns that the rapidly escalating sectarian tensions between the Islamist regimes of Iran and Saudi Arabia could lead to a major destabilizing of the Mideast’s already volatile security environment.
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Turkey Uses Islamism as Foreign Policy Soft-Power Tool
May 30, 2019
Turkey’s government continues to deploy Islamism as a core foreign policy tool of soft power to achieve its neo-Ottoman goals of regional hegemony in the Middle East.