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Turkish Forces Commit Religious Cleansing in Afrin Operation
March 21, 2018
Military forces from Turkey's Islamist government, along with its allied proxies from local jihadist groups including al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, are engaging in religious cleansing against "infidel" Yezidis and Christians as part of the Turkey's military operation to wrest control of the northern Syrian town of Afrin from US-backed Kurdish militias.
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Tunisia Struggles to Form Policies on Foreign Fighters
March 21, 2018
The Tunisian government is currently struggling to develop policies in conjunction with the governments and militias in Baghdad and Damascus to deal with foreign fighters that left North Africa to fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Egypt Looks to Business Investment to Counter Islamist Terror
March 21, 2018
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is pushing private-sector actors to invest in the development of the Sinai Peninsula as part of his national-security strategy, arguing that economic development is a smart, sustainable mechanism for eliminating poverty and economic marginalization as recruiting and radicalization fodder by a range of Islamist terrorist groups.
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Saudi Prince Sends Mixed Signals on Rights Reforms
March 20, 2018
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's "60 Minutes" interview on CBS News included a declaration that "women are absolutely equal to men" but did not address restrictions on guardianship laws by which male relatives control almost all aspects of women's social and private lives within the Wahhabi monarchy.
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Islamic Cryptocurrency Makes Debut
March 20, 2018
The proliferation of cryptocurrencies in global finance has expanded with the roll-out of NOORCOIN as the first sharia-compliant cryptocurrency aimed at the rapidly growing Islamic finance sector, by offering a digital utility token that combines a blockchain technology platform with sharia regulations.
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