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Afghan Citizens Suffer Widespread Human Return Rights Abuses Due to Taliban-IS Extremist War
July 12, 2022
Human Rights Watch reports that the Islamist civil war between Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime and competitor Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) have produced comprehensive human rights violations in the form of widespread extrajudicial killings by Taliban forces accusing residents of pro-ISKP orientations and by ISKP militants targeting non-Sunni Muslims and non-Muslim minorities.
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Hezbollah’s Islamist Agenda Shapes Lebanon-Israel East Med Energy Dispute
July 11, 2022
Iran-friendly, Shiite extenuating group Hezbollah continues to exert determinant influence within the Lebanese state and, by extension, in the volatile geopolitics if the Eastern Mediterranean, most recently using drone attacks against Israel‘s offshore natural gas rigs to pressure Washington and Jerusalem into a maritime borders agreement that favors Lebanon and that gives Hezbollah leverage over East Med energy security assets.
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OIC Shows Leverage in UN With Resolution on Islamophobia Day
July 11, 2022
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation ((OIC) marshaled the strength of its full global membership, along with support from China, Russia, and other human rights violating states, to get the votes for a UN General Assembly Resolution recognizing an International Day to Combat Islamophobia, a decision criticized by some UN member states for setting a problematic precedent by focusing on protection of a single religion and by prioritizing religion over the rights of believers, in contrast to international legal principles and protections.
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Al-Shabab’s Parallel Financial Practices in Somalia Allow Islamist Expansion
July 11, 2022
Somalia’s al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group al-Shabab has built a sophisticated network of taxation mapped onto key transportation hubs, in tandem with opportunistic use of the country’s poorly regulated banking system, to finance its almost two-decades-long war against the East African state and to find other jihadist operations that are delegitimizing states across the geopolitically crucial Horn of Africa region.
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IS Prison Attack in Nigeria Highlights Resilience & Adaptation of Islamist Threat to State Security
July 11, 2022
IS militants in Nigeria claimed responsibility for a prison break that saw almost all the inmates escape into the capital city coming on the heels of an armed assault on a presidential convoy demonstrating the expanding cooperation between jihadists and other non-state groups as well as pointing to the resilience and adaptation of violent Islamist groups committed to the overthrow of the international order based in sovereign states.
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