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US Military Confirms Killing of Boko Haram Militants
March 20, 2018
A Pentagon spokesperson has confirmed that a combined US and Nigerian force serving in Africom peacekeeping operations in the Lake Chad region killed 11 Islamist militants from Boko Haram, two months after the jihadist group inflicted casualties on the Africom forces.
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Turkey's Government Uses Western Tech for Political Repression
March 20, 2018
A Canadian digital-freedom watchdog has raised the alarm about Turkey's Islamist government using Anglo-German sources to acquire and deploy dual-use, Canadian-American spyware technologies against Turkey's citizens for electronic and digital surveillance.
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US Feds Charge Three Men with Minnesota Mosque Bombing
March 20, 2018
The US Attorney's Office in Illinois has charged three local men, also suspected in an attempted bombing of a local abortion clinic, with a bombing attack on a Minnesota mosque last year that aimed to "scare Muslims out of the United States."
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Iran Court Imprisons Professor for "Anti-State Propaganda"
March 20, 2018
The struggle between hard-line and reformist factions for control over the direction of Iran's Islamic theocracy was on full display with the 18-month jail sentence meted out by the Tehran Revolutionary Court to one of the country's most popular political-science professors and public intellectuals for support for Islamic reforms considered "anti-state propaganda."
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Tunisian Women's Groups Push for Equal Rights
March 20, 2018
A panoply of women's groups in Tunisia, led by the Tunisian Coalition for Equality in Inheritance, is driving a popular mobilization campaign to reform the country's sharia-based Personal Status Code that deprives women of equal inheritance rights and other legal rights based on gender discrimination rooted in conservative interpretations of Islamic law.
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