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US-Taliban Talks Raise Complex Issues Related to Islamist Terrorism
March 04, 2019
The agenda of the latest round of US negotiations with the Afghan Taliban in Qatar will focus on a US military withdrawal from the long war in Afghanistan conditioned on Taliban guarantees against harboring Islamist terrorists and on the Taliban’s willingness to cooperate with the current country’s government.
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Mozambique Insurgency Is Latest Face of Extremist Islamism
March 04, 2019
Mozambique is the latest country in East Africa where extremist Islamism is demonstrating a growing presence, as the anti-government insurgency plaguing the country's northern province bears all the hallmarks of the al-Shabaab Islamist terror group.
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NY Imam Warns Followers Against Non-Muslim Connections
March 04, 2019
The imam of a large mosque in Queens, New York, who formerly led a South Carolina Islamic Center, has posted sermons on Facebook warning congregants against building social relationships with non-Muslims and against entrapment by US law enforcement officials aiming to penetrate Muslim religious communities.
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Saudi Arabia Mixes Religion, Geopolitics in Countering Criticism
March 01, 2019
Saudi Arabia's monarchy is using religion as a soft-power tool to buttress the regime's geopolitical standing in the Middle East and deploy Wahhabi Islamist clerics in a global media blitz aimed at creating an echo chamber of support against criticisms of the leadership of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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IS Collapse Leaves Behind Radicalized Women
March 01, 2019
The final military collapse of the Islamic State (IS) in northeastern Syria has revealed large numbers of radicalized women expressing their continuing dedication to the idea of the caliphate.
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