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Taliban’s Strength Stokes Afghan Government Shakeup
January 03, 2019
Afghanistan’s President highlighted his concerns over the Taliban’s military resurgence by shaking up his government with the appointment of new Ministers of Defense and Interior both known for their hardline views against compromise with the Islamist extremist group fighting to make Afghanistan a sharia state.
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Australia Faces Terrorism Threat from Returning IS Fighters
January 03, 2019
Government officials in Australia acknowledge that the country’s security situation has become increasingly complicated by the return from Iraq and Syria of Australian fighters who traveled to the Mideast to fight for the Islamic State (IS).
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Moroccan Police Link Murder of Hikers to Terrorism
January 03, 2019
Moroccan police fear the chilling effects of Islamist terrorism on the country’s tourism industry after the murder in the Atlas Mountains of two Scandinavian hikers, one of whom was beheaded, by suspects with links to Islamist terrorist networks.
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ECtHR Ruling Points to Discriminatory Impacts of Islamic Family Law
January 03, 2019
A European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling upholding the claims of a Muslim woman in Greece regarding the discriminatory effects of Islamic family law in an inheritance case may have wider implications across Europe in the face of growing pressures from Muslim communities to accord primacy to Islamic law over civil law.
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IS Resilience Sparks Concerns Regarding US Troop Withdrawal
January 03, 2019
America’s allies in the US-led international coalition to defeat the Islamic State (IS) in its core Syrian and Iraqi territories have expressed serious concerns about the group’s continuing resilience in Syria and global jihadist activities in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s announcement of immediate US troop withdrawal from the region.
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