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IS Shows Resilience in Mideast and Expands in Africa, Asia
December 14, 2018
International counterterrorism experts warn that the Islamic State (IS) has shown strong resilience in its core territories of Iraq and Syria, shifting its strategy to guerrilla warfare and sophisticated, underground recruitment, while also expanding its numbers and operations in Africa and Asia.
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Resurgent Taliban Target Shiite Hazara Minority
December 14, 2018
A resurgent Taliban still committed to making Afghanistan a sharia state carried out a high-casualty attack against the region where the country’s Shiite Hazara minority is concentrated, sending a message that the Sunni fundamentalist Taliban will not tolerate ethnic-religious minorities.
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Saudi Leaders Discussed Assassination of Iranian Officials
December 14, 2018
The New York Times reports that leaders of Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi fundamentalist Islamist theocracy used international business connections to explore hiring private hit squads to assassinate top officials in Iran’s Islamic theocracy.
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Jihadist Movements’ Competition Aggravates Carnage in Yemen
December 14, 2018
The violent competition between the al-Qaeda and Islamic State jihadist movements has been a parallel war in Yemen concomitant with the Saudi-Iran theocracies’ proxy war between Sunni and Shiite factions in the poor Gulf country.
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Al-Shabaab Launches Triple Suicide Bombing in Somalia
December 14, 2018
Triple suicide-bombing attacks claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group produced another round of lethality and mayhem in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu, where the violent Islamist group continues to carry out its war to impose sharia law in the geopolitically important East African country.
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