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Al-Shabaab Targeting Causes Teachers to Flee Kenya
May 04, 2018
Targeting by Somalia-based Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab has produced an exodus of non-Muslim teachers from Kenya, shuttering schools and creating opportunities for youth recruitment by the al-Qaeda-linked East African militants.
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IS Turns Captured Syrian Soldier into Human Bomb
May 04, 2018
Islamic State (IS) propaganda channels have run a video of a captured Syrian soldier being executed as a human bomb launched from a building in the Yarmouk area on the outskirts of Damascus, where the Syrian military and the Islamist extremist group continue to fight for control.
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Boko Haram Jihadists Hit Mosque, Market in Nigeria
May 04, 2018
Boko Haram jihadists demonstrated their resilience against the Nigerian state’s ongoing efforts to counter the Islamist extremist group with a high shock-value, high-casualty attack against two soft targets, a mosque and a marketplace, in the northeastern part of the country.
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US Court Convicts NJ Man of IS Support
May 04, 2018
A US court convicted a Rutherford, New Jersey, man for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State (IS), with a sentence of 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release, based on information from a federal investigation revealing that the man had knowledge of IS attacks inside the US.
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Afghan IS Strikes Against State, NATO Forces
May 04, 2018
Islamic State (IS) cells in Afghanistan carried out deadly suicide bombings against state police and NATO forces on Monday, killing numerous journalists and children in attacks marking a continuation of various Islamist extremist groups’ assaults aiming to consolidate sharia law throughout the country.
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