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US Clamps Down on IS Finance Networks
December 10, 2018
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) continued its clampdown on Islamic State (IS) financing networks identified as providers of “financial, material, or technical support” to the Islamist group, imposing sanctions on a money-exchange company based in Iraq only weeks after OFAC sanctions on a company based in the Caribbean.
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Threat from Salafist Islamists Grows in Germany
December 10, 2018
German security and political officials are focusing on policing, intelligence, and education to address what is viewed as a growing threat to the country’s democratic politics in the form of continued growth of Germany’s Salafist population.
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Khashoggi Debacle Escalates Islamist Competition in Mideast
December 07, 2018
The continuing fallout from the likely role that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) played in the gruesome murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is already showing signs of escalating the competition among the Middle East’s three giant Islamist theocratic regimes of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey.
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Iran Television Features Children in Jihad Propaganda Show
December 07, 2018
An Iranian children’s television show recently featured children singing jihadist songs about martyrdom and nationalism and being introduced to military equipment by an adult commentator, in a segment of the show that ran a day after the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on an Iranian paramilitary group and its financiers.
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US Airstrike Against Al-Shabaab Reveals Staying Power
December 07, 2018
A US airstrike in Somalia that killed 60 al-Shabaab fighters reveals the staying power of the jihadi group, which has sustained its multi-year war to install sharia law in the East African state and has developed a cross-border operational network whose growing terrorist and ideological activities are destabilizing Africa.
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