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Expert: Resilience of Islamists Demands Unyielding Western Strategy
January 17, 2019
Former USAID officer Jeff Goodson argues that the resilience of jihadists in Afghanistan and Pakistan underscores the need for a Western counter-Islamist strategy of multi-dimensional political-military platforms with an open-ended time horizon.
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UN, NGO Seek Gender Responsive Extremist Reintegration Policies
January 16, 2019
The UN Development Programme has partnered with a US nongovernmental organization called the International Civil Society Action Network to publish a report calling for “gender responsive,” “holistic” national and international policies aimed at reintegrating former members of terrorist networks into society.
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Al-Shabaab Targets Christian Teachers in Kenya
January 15, 2019
As the Somali-based Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has expanded its footprint into neighboring Kenya, the jihadist campaign to install sharia regimes in East Africa has targeted the country's Christian teachers for cleansing.
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EU Grapples with Rights vs. Security Balance on IS Children
January 15, 2019
EU member states are grappling with balancing human rights commitments against national security priorities in trying to develop policies for thousands of returning minors whose parents took them to fight with the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq or who were born in IS caliphate territory to EU nationals fighting with the Islamist terror group.
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Bosnian Authorities Charge IS Foreign Fighter
January 15, 2019
Bosnian state prosecutors brought charges of starting a terrorist organization against a returning fighter who had fought with Islamic State (IS) forces in Iraq and Syria, reflecting state officials' efforts to use the judicial system to prevent the spread of Islamist radicalism in the small, Muslim-majority state in the Western Balkans.
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