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Mali Braces for Jihadist Attacks Part of Unstable West Africa
August 09, 2022
The capital city of the West African country of Mali is on high alert as military and intelligence officials brace for jihadist attacks threatened by Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants who are part of the spreading Islamist extremism that has destabilized the Continent’s Sahel region, with Mail-based extremists warring to impose sharia law on a state already weakened by a military junta that has turned away from Euro-American cooperation and towards Russian mercenary support.
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US Strike on AQ Chief Zawahiri Highlights Clear & Present Danger of Islamist Extremism
August 04, 2022
According to the atlanticcouncil.org, the US drone strike that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in his safehouse in Afghanistan was a one-time success against global Islamist terrorism that, in fact, highlights the ongoing, clear and present danger posed by Afghanistan as a platform for jihadist activities and by the Taliban as an Islamic regime that welcomes a variety of jihadist entities for operations planning against Western targets.
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Global Muslim Brotherhood Secures EU Funds for Islamist Influence Operations
August 04, 2022
The international network comprising the globalized Muslim Brotherhood (GMB) systematically pursues a strategy of influence-building in Europe via activities that block integration of religious minorities and foster Islamist radicalism and violence, and recent think-tank analysis of funding streams to the GMB suggest the organization’s success in lobbying by the GMB’s Federation of Islamic Organizations of Europe (FIOE) and other pan-European GMB bodies to securing funding from a collection of European Union (EU) and Council of Europe.
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Turkey’s Neo-Ottoman Islamism Uses Influence-Building & Partnerships for Transnational Impact
August 03, 2022
Turkey’s neo-Ottoman geopolitical strategy turns on Islamism to reconfigure the country’s domestic sociopolitical orientation against the West and towards authoritarian like regimes like Russia and China, as well as to partner with radical Islamist groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in order to build influence in Europe, the Mideast, the Caucasus, and Africa.
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Al-Shabaab Incursion into Ethiopia from Somalia Signals Spreading Jihadist Threat in East Africa
August 03, 2022
The Somali-based, al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group Al-Shabaab breached the border recently in multiple incursions that signal the jihadist group’s growing strength vis-via states of East Africa pointing to the growing security threat of Islamist militancy in a geopolitically crucial region connecting the three Continents of Africa, Asia and Europe.
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