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US Charges Former Intelligence Officer with Espionage for Iran
February 14, 2019
The US Department of Justice has charged a former US Air Force intelligence officer who converted to Islam and defected to Iran in 2013 with spying for the Islamic theocracy and revealing intelligence as part of a broader cyber operation aiming to penetrate American intelligence and use social media to push malign activities.
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Saudi Women's Driving Activist Goes Missing
February 14, 2019
The disappearance of Saudi women's rights and women's driving activist Louhain Al-Hathloul, who has been detained without charge since last June in Riyadh, raises red flags about continuing violations of civil and political liberties in Saudi Arabia.
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Pakistan Announces Islamic School Reform
February 14, 2019
The Pakistani government's announcement of a plan to integrate public schools and Islamic parochial schools (madrassas) has generated a debate about the significance of external funding aiming to use education as a mechanism for Islamist radicalization and revolution.
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Turkey Targets Police with Another Round of Arrests
February 14, 2019
Turkey's ruling party mainly targeted police officers in a new round of over 1000 arrests allegedly aimed at supporters of the Islamist Gulen group blamed by the party for perpetrating a failed coup attempt in 2016.
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Report Points to Terror Financing by Global Islamic NGO
February 11, 2019
A report by the Tunisian Financial Analysis Commission provides evidence that the global Islamist charitable organization Islamic Relief, which operates branches in the US and Canada, has used complex funding networks to finance jihadists operating in North Africa at the Tunisia-Libya border.