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IS Forces Remain Lethal Despite Shrinking Territory
January 03, 2019
Despite their ever-shrinking direct control over its remaining caliphate territory in northeastern Syria, the estimated 5000 Islamic State (IS) forces remain highly lethal in the face of US-led, anti-IS coalition forces and Kurdish-led militia.
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OIC Conference in Pakistan Targets Youth Activism
January 03, 2019
The focus of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on national programs of youth mobilization and political activism on behalf of the Islamic ummah/community was on display in a three-day National Model OIC held in Pakistan.
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Turkey's Erdogan Uses Anti-Semitism to Bolster Islamist Policy
January 03, 2019
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses openly anti-Semitic language and tropes to bolster domestic support for his Islamist regime in the runup to the country's municipal elections.
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IS Legacy Includes Orphaned Children, Broken Families
January 03, 2019
The Islamic State's (IS) legacy of violence and extremism in Iraq and Syria involves an entire generation of orphaned infants and children, as well as huge numbers of widow-led families, creating a daunting task in efforts to provide orphanages and other social services that can care for and integrate individuals stigmatized by their relationship to the jihadist terror group.
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Taliban Training Camps Offer Propaganda for Jihadi Recruits
January 03, 2019
The Taliban released new video posts of commandos training in camps across the Afghanistan-Pakistan territory, using diverse social-media outlets to trumpet the group's sustainability and to attract new recruits to the jihadis' long war to impose sharia regimes in Southwest Asia.
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