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Boko Haram Attacks Soft Targets in Cameroon, Nigeria
November 08, 2017
Hardline Islamist group Boko Haram perpetrated soft-target attacks, murdering villagers in Cameroon and staging a suicide bombing in a Nigerian mosque, as part of the jihadi group’s campaign to institute sharia states in West Africa.
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Rights Group Criticizes Iran's Religious Freedom Violations
November 08, 2017
Global rights organization Human Rights Watch has issued a critique of Iran’s Guardian Council, the government agency for interpretation of the country’s Islamic constitution, for religious freedom violations involved in suspending a fairly elected city council member due to his Zoroastrian religious identity.
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Russia Faces Child Repatriation Challenges Related to IS Fighters
November 08, 2017
The Russian state is facing complex legal, security, and humanitarian challenges associated with the repatriation of children orphaned in Iraq and Syria by Russian Islamists who fought for Islamic State (IS) from the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Dagestan.
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Bahrain Monarchy Blames Iran for Attack on Police
November 08, 2017
Islamic sectarian tensions spiked again in Bahrain after another militant attack on a police target in the island monarchy that hosts US naval bases, as the country’s Sunni monarchy accused Shiite Iran of fomenting discontent among Bahrain’s majority Shiite population.
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Iran Benefits from Kurdish Referendum Fallout
November 08, 2017
The Islamist theocratic regime in Iran has emerged as the geopolitical winner in the complex fallout from the now-stymied independence move that drove Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) referendum, with evidence of a consolidated Shiite geopolitical arc stretching from Tehran to Baghdad and Kirkuk to southern Lebanon and Syria.
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