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US Freeze on Military Aid to Pakistan Focuses on Haqqani Links
January 08, 2018
The US decision to suspend military assistance to Pakistan pending Islamabad’s crackdown on Islamist extremist groups was focused on linkages between Pakistani security-intelligence forces with the Haqqani network, one of the most lethal Islamist terror groups in South Asia.
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Islamist Nationalism Intensifies in Turkey
January 08, 2018
The recent declaration by an Islamic preacher in Turkey that men must be bearded to avoid being mistaken for women and thus provoking "indecent thoughts" reflects the broader efforts of the country’s political and religious establishment to use legal and social constraints to fuse Islamism and nationalism in Turkey.
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Iran Protests Reveal Islamist Theocratic Dilemmas
January 08, 2018
Anti-government protesters in Iran have made clear that they link the country's sustained economic squeeze to the high cost of the theocratic regime’s foreign policy aimed at exporting Shiite Islamism across the Mideast, with the linkage between domestic unrest and the foreign policy export of Islamism also relevant for Iran’s leading Sunni Islamist competitor, Saudi Arabia.
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Pakistan’s Support for Islamism Poses Major Geopolitical Risks
January 08, 2018
Expansive evidence of support from Pakistan’s military and intelligence services for Islamist ideological projects and jihadi terrorist groups has prompted the US to rethink its strategic policy toward Pakistan, with past and current Administration officials advocating a combination of diplomatic, economic, and covert steps to roll back Islamabad’s Islamist extremism.
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Islamist Movements Had Mixed Results in 2017
January 08, 2018
Islamist movements originating in the Mideast had a record of mixed results in 2017, suffering several major losses in territorial control but experiencing steady globalization of networks and activities with increased operations of Islamist political parties, jihadi militant groups, and Islamist terror organizations in Africa, Europe, and America.
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