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Gulf States, Turkey Use Soft-Power Tools to Spread Islamism in Africa
January 03, 2019
The Islamist regimes of the Arabian Gulf regimes and Turkey are using systematic investment in education and social services in impoverished African nations as a soft-power tool for expanding radical Islamist ideology and militant operations from the Middle East across the African Continent.
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Tunisia Struggles with Integration of Returning Jihadists
January 03, 2019
The Tunisian government continues to struggle with the legal parameters and socioeconomic mechanisms for prosecuting and reintegrating returning jihadist fighters from three key Islamist military fronts of Iraq, Syria, and Libya.
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OIC Bank Seeks Spread of Islamic Finance Through Blockchain
January 03, 2019
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Islamic Development Bank Group is developing financial technology tools customized for sharia compliance, seeking to use blockchain and cryptocurrency for more rapid globalization of sharia compliant/compatible banking and finance.
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Iran Uses European Embassies as Platform for Terrorism
January 02, 2019
Albania, France, and Belgium are among the European countries whose governments have reported evidence that Iran is using its European embassies to target anti-Islamist, anti-regime opponents in Europe and as staging grounds for terrorism inside the EU.
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IS Resources Will Sustain Its Threat Capacity
December 26, 2018
Experts on the Islamic State (IS) concur in estimates that IS leadership has systematically hidden approximately $400 billion in loot in combined legal and criminal operations worldwide, a move that will sustain the Islamist terror group’s threat capacity in the wake of the IS military collapse in its core caliphate territories in Iraq and Syria.
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